Koh Toa

We got to koh toa in the afternoon feeling pretty knackered after the near sleepness night on the bus/beach but we were soon relaxing on the amazing beach. We found a bungalow about 20 metres from the beach pretty cheap but it was slightly open to the elements. We quickly realised we weren't alone in the bungalow as we saw at least two 30cm lizards!! It was fine but a shock when we first saw them!

We sat down on the white sand, with the turquoise water at our feet and watched the sunset! Nice.

The next day we we went for a wonder hunting for other beaches and came across one called 'freedom beach'. It was so picturesque so spent the day there.

Koh Tao is renound for diving (if you're in those circles!) so we booked ourselves on a snorkelling diving trip around the island. We stopped at the first place which was called shark island. The crew said that may be sharks in the water (it's ok though) but no-ones saw one. The fishes were amazing though. So many different types it was like being in the Finding Nemo movies with large groups of fish swimming all around you! We headed to our next stop. We were snorkelling together when emma pointed at a black tip shark and then proceeded to swim away from it in terror! There was only a few people who saw it too so we felt pretty lucky! (later that evening we met people who had been on 4 day diving courses that didn't see as much as us!) our last stop was to Koh Nangyuan which was a set of 3 islands joined together by stretches of sand which looked amazing. We walked to the top of one island and got amazing views of the area. We sat on the beach and could not believe our eyes as 1 Italian lady had a picnic blanket FULL of coral. It's an offence to take anything and we couldn't believe it. If everyone did that there wouldn't be any left! Later that evening we properly splashed out and ate some good food. To break the mould of burger/rice/noodles we had a BBQ at a beach side restaurant. Yum yum. We headed to a pool bar as a Dutch guy (Richard) we met on the trip was going there. We met another couple when we sat down and the guy introduced himself as chris and the girl as emma. We were all like that's so crazy!!! (We've since been travelling with them and the Dutch guy over the past few days so it sounds like we keep referring to ourselves as the 3rd person when talking about them!).

The next day we left Koh Tao (a bit begrudgingly) and headed for koh phagnan. I say begrudgingly as we loved koh toa but the other islands we want to visit could be just as good or better!

By the way some photos are worse quality as they were taken with the underwater wind up camera!