"I don't need your passport, I trust you." she said with her incomparable smile and handed me the key for the scooter while I was signing the contract. They will treat you nice if you do so and you show up as a person that can be trusted...
I wanted to get my equipment wet before I go on board the Sawasdee Fasai, just to make sure everything works fine. Gemma and Edu recommended Sea Bees and Sea Dragon, but Sea Bees was booked out until the weekend, so I called Sea Dragon this morning and booked a check dive with them for tomorrow. Would have preferred Sea Bees, because they have a nice dive boat with platform, Sea Dragon goes by longtail boat. I never dived from a longtail, so this will be a new experience, let's see.
This will be "house reef" diving, nothing more than 8-9 meters deep, visibility between 5 and 10, enough for my purpose. And it's a lot cheaper than the Boonsung wreck dive. I will see the Boonsung at least six times during the Livaboard trips anyway.
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| Sea Dragon Office at Khao Lak |
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| Sea Dragon's Pick up truck. With these looks, I wonder how it will sound... |
After that, I went further up north to Memories Beach, a super chilled place recommended by Gemma. You can't miss it, at the Elephant Camp you follow their road sign down a gravel road and after 10 Minutes and 4 km you are on the beach.
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| Road Sign for Memories Beach |
They have delicious food, I had fantastic Springrolls with Shrimps, actually shrimps with vegetables wrapped around them and deepfried. Had my first massage on the beach after lunch and relaxed.
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| Memories Beach, north of Khao Lak |
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| Super chilled vintage stuff at Memories Beach |
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| Tiki is everywhere... |
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| "No Shirt No Shoes No Problem" instead of "No Shirt No Serve" |
On my way home got me a new board short and flipflops, saved 200 Baht off the price without bargaining at all (see above: if you treat them nice...), and went home to my hotel. There was a scooter that had just got a new tire on the back wheel, I asked for the old one, because I wanted to build something from the rubber: A torch holder for my BCD, "Mc Gyver "style. Looks a bit techie, but who cares?
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| Moped tire |
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| Cut out |
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| Cut small pieces |
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| Torch on BCD voilà |
and hung out at the hotel with other guests.
Then out of the blue TJ from Lofoten, Norway, messaged me that she is around the corner in another Hotel, just coming back from Bunaken, Indonesia. Wasted, by flights. I dived with her last year on the MV Flying Seahorse in the deep south of Andaman Sea.
We made an appointment for a pizzeria tomorrow early afternoon, after I come back from the check dive and before she leaves on a liveaboard trip to the Similan Islands.
Is the diving world a small world? If you keep contacts, for sure.
See you under water
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