After a long day on the beach in the sun it was time to get ready as we were off to see a Lady Boy show (Lady boys are are men dressed up as women for a dance show, some in various forms of sex change). We arrived early to get good seats and soon the place started to fill up, let the show begin, the show was very entertaining and we had loads of fun with songs like "It's raining men" and music by ABBA plus may more catchy songs with the lady boy giving it all to the delight of the audience. In the end several men from the audience were asked to change into drag to try their luck on stage and this ended the show, people leaving with big smiles on their face.
The days are gettting hotter (33 degrees in the shade) so our energy levels are a bit low at times so we spend a lot of time lying around either tanning or in the room. But we still take time to swim or snorkle. We rented a longtail boat one afternoon and headed to Mango Bay, at the northern part of the island, this was a pretty area with a small beach and good snorkelling with lot's of corals from small to very big with a fair amount of fish darting around the corals.
Wednesday it was time to dive again and this would be a long day with lot's of diving as we were heading off to Sail Rock, a dive site about 1 1/2 to hours from Koh Tao between the island Koh Phangan and Koh Tao. With the music blasting the energy was high, we finally arrived at Sail Rock for our first two dives. Sadly the visiblity did not hold but we were still treated to great underwater show. One of the first things to happen was that our dive master was attacked by a giant triggerfish, and got a bite on his ankle. Luckily, he was OK, and he's bitten before. Our first big sighting was a school of about 100 baraccuda circling around and then we looked a little the right and saw about 200 juvenile trevally followed by about 100 yellow snappers and to top it 25 large batfish. This was only some of the many things, we also found moray eels, 2 meter long groupers, scorpionfish and plenty of sea slugs. The second dive was much of the same and it was hard to leave after two great dive but we had one more stop at Southwest Pinnacle before we head back to Koh Tao.
Southwest Pinnacle was another great site with lot's of underwater life and it started right as I jumped in where met a giant jellyfish with lot's of small fish swimming around it. There were plenty of fish in this area or we could call it clouds of fish in all directions and even some that I had not seen before on this trip, first was the apperance of a nudibranch in the Flabellina family and a small unidentified fish that I will seach for when I get home. Otherwise it was a great dive with loads of thing to see and it all came to an end all too quickly.
Our last days here were spent relaxing and enjoying the hot weather, but there was one funny thing that happened that's worth mentioning. We were having a long walk on the beach taking some picture when we found a group of people and asked them to take a picture of us. We lined up to take a picture when Jorunn decided to kick off her shoes, the first one came flying at an odd angel and I was about to tell Jorunn to be carefull when the second shoe went flying and smacked the girl in the back of the head. How embarrasing can things get, so we quickly apologised, took some pictures and retreated back up the beach (HAHAHA, I was really having a laugh later even though it was embarrasing).
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