Apr 2008

Delhi-belly again !

It's a bit worrying as I have a long journey ahead of me and I can hardly pick up my rucksack because I feel weak.

The local clinic gives me some antibiotics and I'm given two tablets to take so I don't have to keep going to the toilet.

I go to the travel agent to see if I can delay my journey for a day. Luckily, I can so I spend the rest of the day in bed.

I'm taking it easy again today. There's always a price to pay after diving for me. I go deaf a little because of the water getting in my ears and generally a little tired.

I bump into Pete a little later in the day and we agree to meet up in the evening for a drink. He tells me how when he first came to the island he bought cheap bottle of suntan lotion from a shop. Why buy an expensive one - that's for girls. However, no matter how much he kept putting on he was still getting sunburned. The explanation for this turned out to be a simple one - It wasn't suntan lotion in the bottle it was shampoo. They still laugh at him at the shop and always ask him if he wants to buy conditioner. This is doubly funny because he has a shaven head.

It's diving again today, but it's not part of a course so it's called a fun dive.

We saw loads of different fish, from Clown (like Nemo) to Trigger fish (the one's that can attack if you enter their territory) and Sting Ray, Prawns and Stone fish. If I was educated I might have been able to tell you what others there were.

I visit the barbecue again in the evening tomorrow I should be leaving to go back to Bangkok tomorrow.

Got let down by Pete - he doesn't turn up. He must have got drunk with his mates last night. Later, I find out that's exactly what happened.

So not a lot happens today: a little reading, tv, sunbathing it's a tough life. I book a dive at the dive center for tomorrow.

Met up with Pete again today. We head of to a bay called, Shark Bay. We're hoping to swim out and see Sharks. I hire some fins, snorkel and mask.

I follow Pete into the water. I can't believe how far we're swimming out, it must be about a quarter of a mile, but it's supposed to be where the sharks swim. Unfortunately, we don't see any. When we swim back to the beach, with me having involuntarily drunk a few horrible cups worth of sea water, we speak to a couple who swam in a different direction to us and they have seen them. Oh well, never mind.

We go for another walk and it's to a place called Eagle point, which is up a really steep hill. The view from here is very impressive we can see Shark bay. We have the obligatory drink at the bar and order food. It's another good place to be and the food is quite good too.

We decide to meet up tomorrow and do another walk.