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We are also “living” with a cat we call Little Girl. Little Girl looks like what you’d expect the love child of a gray tabby and an orange tabby with some white thrown in to look like. She’s still a wee bit shy, unlike Fatty who went from being unsure of whether he wanted to come into our room at all to flopping on the bed like porno kitty within 24 hours. Little Girl is warming up to the whole human experience.
Mostly they live outside, but when we’re home they do hang with us quite a bit. And it’s costing us about 60 Baht a week to feed the monsters. The other night I didn’t get home until past midnight and was surprised to be greeted by a big howler monkey. Ryan had kept Fatty in to keep him company.
It’s been quite some time since I’ve written – mostly because I’ve been insanely busy. Some highlights:
• We had about a week of absolutely spectacular conditions. It was a great preview to what awaits us high season.
• I got to see two octopi mating. That was such a treat and I’m very bummed that I didn’t have any camera with me. I had a feeling it was going to happen. I hovered and watched these two interacting for quite some time, skirting around each other and flirting with each other. And then one tentacle reached across…After it was over there was some rather aggressive behavior. One “ran” after the other and completely “swallowed” it up. Shortly thereafter, the swallowed-up one was able to free itself and promptly swam off.
• I’ve found where the Black Tip Reef Sharks like to hang out and have had a few great dives surrounded by them. On one occasion, I was literally surrounded by 10 to 15 of them swimming around us during a very extended safety stop. It was very impressive. A few times one of them came very close to me only to be squared away by the sound of my bubbles as I exhaled.
• I did my 400th dive and was lucky enough to have 4 really great fun divers and a DMT helping me, so my 400th dive was over an hour long and included a leopard shark, a black tip, a turtle, an octopus and a cuttlefish.
• After about a week of freelancing every day for Barakuda Dive Center, I was offered a permanent job with them and I was happy to accept. They gave me two t-shirts and wrote my name on the board for shop hours and it was official. I’ve now been with them for about 3 weeks. They’re a nice bunch of people (the only guy there who I thought was an idiot and a total drama queen quit after being the butt of the boss’ displeasure on a few issues).
• The island has once again tremendously slowed down. This cycles every month as the full moon approaches and every one leaves for the full moon party. But still the island seems slower than last month. And a lot of the people who are here seem to be nearing the end of their holidays and have little money left.
• Ryan is still freelancing, though is spending a good amount of his non-diving time at a shop called Adventure Club doing shop hours and the odd bit of diving. There’s a chance that they’ll hire him on for the high season (unless something else comes along while they’re making up their minds I suppose).
• Ryan was also sick for about 4 days with a miserable cold. The worst of it was the sickest and most unhappy I think I’ve ever seen him. Poor sweet pea. He did not give it to me so far and for that I am grateful.
• I finally got my bamboo tattoo! I love it! I wanted a shark and a turtle and can’t decide on an octopus or seal. So for now it’s a turtle and shark. It took 7 hours and parts of it were incredibly painful, even after downing 8 Tylenols. But he did nice work. And it will probably be my last tattoo unless I decide to add the octopus or seal to it. I don’t think that I will soon forget how much this one hurt.
We ‘ve planned our next visa run. My initial thought and Ryan agreed was to take a proper break before high season starts. The plan was to go to Bali, meet up with the Elliotts and dive for a couple of days after dropping our passports off at the Thai Embassy in Denpassar. But after looking a little bit at how September is shaping up – it’s supposed to be real slow and the fact that Bali is a lot of traveling for a short break, we’ve decided to go to Kuala Lumpur instead. We’ll leave on the 9:00 a.m. ferry out to Krabi on the 28th and be in KL by 3:00 p.m. The flight is only about an hour. We’ll drop our passports off at the embassy on the 29th and pick them up on the 30th and be able to take the last flight from KL to Phuket at 8:00 p.m. on the 30th. We’ll spend the night in Phuket Town and have the morning to go to Tesco before the afternoon ferry. And since Gee let us tag along last month on his Phuket run, we’re letting him tag along on our visa run.
Keira will be back in October and we’re thinking that we will stay on at Valentine. But if we leave Keira’s room, we will suddenly find ourselves in the midst of very bare-bones living, so a trip to Tesco to get a little fridge and a hot water maker is of the essence before she returns.
Happy Labor Day to all. Have a safe weekend.
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