After waking up pretty early the next day I left Jack in bed as it appeared he had a much longer night than me and so would appreciate the rest. I strolled down the beach stopping on one of the many beach terraces to have a good English breakfast (Thai style). I continued to explore the island and eventually decided to rent a kayak and paddle out to sea, with a view to relaxing out there for a few hours before returning back.
Everything started so well and before I knew it the shore looked quite distant. Deciding I was far enough, I put down the paddle and lay back relaxing in the sun and occasionally dipping my feet in the warm bath like ocean. It was very relaxing and then for some reason unknown to me the kayak filled with water and so began to sink partially. Not realising what was happening I tried several times to mount the kayak each time resulting in me being submerged.
Getting very tired by this point I then looked at the distant shore and thought the only way to get back was to swim dragging the kayak behind me to prevent some Thai man having a vendetta against me for losing him his kayak. Eventually after some time I made it back and almost kissed the white sandy beach in delight! As expected the man was not best pleased so I made a quick exit out of there and headed back to the hut.
Now 6.30pm Jack had finally managed to come out of his coma like existence and we decided to shower and head out to get something to eat. Now quite strangely Koh Tao has millions of Italian Restaurants so pizza and pasta is pretty much what you've got. After dinner we bumped into two people we met in bangkok and then went for a quick drink with them before retiring to bed at about midnight.
The next day we were able to get up reasonably early and so we went and rented mopeds once again and headed to the south of the island. On the way we passed a mini golf and bowling complex and being the big kids we are could not resist a round of golf and an hour of bowling. Jack was victorious in all things and he did not let me forget this in a hurry. The town was our next port of call where we scheduled some water ski-ing for the next day with a cockney named Rex.
Not satisfied with what we had seen so far we headed to Shark Bay on the most southern tip of the island enjoying a rather off road experience with the mopeds. Eventually reaching the quiet and secret cove we turned around and headed home. On the way we stopped and got something to eat and then headed to the lotus bar to enjoy more fire juggling and a couple of drinks.
When the jugglers had finished we then had a bit of dance on the beach and Jack and I even ventured into the sea at points to cool off in the hot tropical climate.. good times. At 2am we headed home and DISASTER struck. I managed to fall off my moped making a small hole in my foot and taking the skin off both my elbows and knees.. bad times!
We went back to the hut and cleaned me up as best we could with my left over supplies from times gone by and then headed to the 24hr clinic. We got there and the lights were off but two nurses were sleeping on the sofa. We then proceeded in waking one up who clearly very tired lead me to a little room with a bed and some usual hospital junk.
For the next hour Jack watched as I was tortured by iodine. I managed to make a bit of a joke about it saying that I wanted more.. this was not enough; but trust me it was. The hole in the foot is by far the worst of my injuries and I am now subsequently required to walk on crutches for a few days until it heals up.
We got back home at around 5am and I went straight to bed after seeing the biggest lizard outside the front door in the world! That night's sleep as can be imagined was not the best but I managed to sleep until about 1.30pm today in the same position. Jack (the carer) got up a bit earlier and sorted us out with somewhere to stay off the beach as this was now a no go area for me for a few days.
We have since checked into an amazing hotel in town where we have two big beds, airconditioning, hot water and a lounge area complete with TV. Watching some cricket we became quite hungry and so headed out for dinner not before stopping for some more iodine torture at the clinic!
After partying for the first two weeks it looks as if for the next 5 days at least I will have to rest and finish my course of antibiotics before returning to the water! Oh well for the time being there is lots more Koh Tao has to offer.. for one a night in watching Batman is not all that bad!
