So, I realize we left you all with Ryan dying of Tonsai Fever, and we do apologize for the lack of updates. Now that we are back in the US with reliable internet and nothing to do, I thought I'd finally update you on our last 3 weeks in Thailand. After leaving Tonsai we headed back to Koh Tao for various reasons (snorkeling, weather, island living, etc.) One of the main reasons actually, was so Ryan and Steve could take a freediving class they offered there. It was a two day course and on day one they were able to dive to 12 meters, day two, both of them made it to 20 meters (about 65 feet). Impressive, I know.
Monica, owner of Apnea Total and an incredible freediver. Steve and Ryan were lucky to have her as their personal instructor. I guess they thought the Vegas kids would need the best.
This guy is awesome, obviously.
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Besides the freediving, our last 2 and a half weeks on Koh Tao were spent snorkeling, reading, hiking, beaching...pretty much just chill-axing.
We took some awesome hikes up into the jungles of the island.
The "roads" we were hiking on were obviously pretty destroyed from the massive amounts of rain that this island gets. I wouldn't have been surprised though to see someone trying to scooter up this...
We found these half built structures in the middle of the jungle. No idea what they were going to be, but they were obviously abandoned and no real road even led up to them.
Looking East
Looking West
Panoramic View
The last day on the island, we took a day long snorkel trip that went around the island to all of the hot snorkeling spots. We saw lots of awesome fish (sting rays, reef shark, trigger fish, etc) and it was a great trip. Unfortunately, our camera decided to break at our first stop, so we didn't get many pictures, but we got some awesome stories.
Camera broken.
And notice the brown floatie in the bottom right. They decided to flush the entire boats sewage system out the back right when Ryan was climbing the ladder...
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Eventually we had to leave Koh Tao and head to Bangkok for our last couple days. Our journey back to Las Vegas (and let me tell you, it was a journey) took over 40 hours, with way too much time spent in airports.
At least they had cartoons in English!!!
Amazing ramen in the Hong Kong airport.
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The End :(
I win
The beach we snorkeled off of
We took some awesome hikes up into the jungles of the island.
Panoramic View
The last day on the island, we took a day long snorkel trip that went around the island to all of the hot snorkeling spots. We saw lots of awesome fish (sting rays, reef shark, trigger fish, etc) and it was a great trip. Unfortunately, our camera decided to break at our first stop, so we didn't get many pictures, but we got some awesome stories.
And notice the brown floatie in the bottom right. They decided to flush the entire boats sewage system out the back right when Ryan was climbing the ladder...
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Eventually we had to leave Koh Tao and head to Bangkok for our last couple days. Our journey back to Las Vegas (and let me tell you, it was a journey) took over 40 hours, with way too much time spent in airports.
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