Planes, Trains & Automobiles

The last three days of Khao Lak have been awesome. Awesome because we did absolutely nothing. We literally spent the majority of each day in an Internet café getting caught up on errands, onward travel, our travelogue (sorry about that 3 week+ delay… we’re almost caught up!) and some work-related stuff. We ate 3 meals at the same Italian restaurant that imports their proscuitto from Italy along with Colavita olive oil, warm bread and real napkins. We had Insalata Caprese (mozzarella with tomatoes) and it was like sweet manna from heaven because there was no rice on our plate. A nice respite and a chance to reset our palates.

It wasn’t until today, in …

Jennifer has caught you up on where we’re at. We got into Khao Lak nice and early and checked in at Sea Dragon Dive Center to get our gear prepped for a 4 day/4 night liveaboard that would start in the Surin Islands, visit Richelieu Rock and Ko Bon and continue into the Similan Islands. These destinations are world famous for divers for the variety of life as well as the size of things that can be seen.

Compared to Pro Dive in Cairns, Sea Dragon seemed very laid back with a really nice and open format dive center and we were quickly and courteously taken care of when we signed in. The shop is majority owned by …