I passed

“Be the fish”, is a strange incantation for diving, but it works well for me. I stripped the diving monkey off my back after three years of fearing water. I finished up the certification class without any problems yesterday. To celebrate the birth of my pseudo-amphibious lifestyle, I decided to partake some of the nightlife, one of the benefits of visiting Koh Tao. As the rest of Team Thailand went to bed early, I met up with a fellow Canadian who I accidentally ran into the day before. Pam and I met on my standby flight from Vancouver to Bangkok. Along with her friend Kevin, we had several beers at the hotel pub, before heading to at a beachfront nightclub called the Pure. When we got there, I was instantly impressed. The dance floor was large slab of concrete built over an open air wooden patio. On the beach were two tourists tossing and twirling fire batons. And, the club was choked full of great looking European women mostly from Scandinavia. With all the distractions in the club especially the latter one I mentioned, I eventually lost Pam and Kevin after making some new friends, and stumbled back to the hotel after eating a late night snack with some Israeli women that I just met. Today, we are heading further south to Krabi on a overnight ferry and bus ride.