Another Ho-Hum Afternoon...NOT

Yesterday started as a boring afternoon. We were waiting in the hotel restaurant for our overnight ferry leaving for Krabi at 2000. I started to doze off in my chair when we decided it was time to have a quiet beer at the beachfront bar. The bar was twenty feet from the water, and steps to the beach. As we were sipping away, we heard someone shouting from the water. When I turned my head to see what was happening, I started to realize we were in for an unusual afternoon. There was a fight – a play fight I guess. My eyes focused intensely on the beach where I found two topless women wrestling in the water. I tried not to stare, but it was hard not to. For the next thirty minutes, three topless women provided entertainment for the rest of the bar, and beach. And before I knew it, they were sitting at the bar next to me along with all their friends. By this time, Harv stopped drinking, and went over to the television in the corner to watch HBO, Dan moved to the other side of the bar, and an Aussie who I just met bought me another big bottle of Chang. If was dozing off before, I was certainly awake now. I started to examine the group of people that were providing the entertainment on the beach, and noticed that were master divers that worked for the hotel we were staying at. The same people that saved me from drowning, and certified my diving license a day before. They were obviously looking for a way to relieve their stress. They drank buckets of alcohol, and started to buy rounds of alcohol for innocent customers like me. After a few rounds of Jager-bombs, two quarts of beer in a plastic bag, and a strange Oreo-based drink called a floppy milk bucket, I was invited for the few rounds of the Bacardi Brezzer challenge otherwise known as the BBC. The objective of the game was to drink a bottles of Bacardi Breezer as fast you can. At 1800 and after about five rounds of the BBC in thirty minutes, I started to try to make sense of why were leaving Koh Tao after all. It had all the amenities, a beautiful beach, a sea of friendly (and gorgeous) tourists, and awesome beach-side entertainment.