Koh Haa is our first stop to drive around those small islands. I am not diving since I still have this very painful hole in my mouth from the extracted tooth operation. They didn’t do the famous cave dive, just the coral reef areas. I haven’t been on this boat for 22 years, having worked on her for eight years with customers from all over the world.
I noticed I have my old habits of picking up garbage whenever I see it and rearranging things so they look a little bit better and wanting to carry some things or just generally check things out. I think this is now solidly in my DNA so it’s probably impossible to become just a true lazy customer on a drive trip.
The food is very good as always, some rice porridge and some cooked vegetables with small amounts of meat and some spices on the side. I find myself in the habit of drinking a lot of coffee. I normally don’t do this but it used to be a habit since I needed to stay alert watching the customers and checking for safety all the time. So it’s gonna be hard to take a nap during the day. Well, i tried a nap and got in a few winks.
At 5 PM after the last day dive we stopped at a very calm place so I just went for a swim with fins and tried a few skin diving tricks to try and get my breathing partially back to where used to be so I could go down and see some 5 meter corals and sea life.
The Thai customers are very quiet and considerate. I was expecting they might start Karaoke but they didn’t. I think they just preferred some quiet and joyful talk. They’re from the same dive club, brought their own instructor to be divemaster l. I would have chatted more with them but I have my own issues with the painful hole in my, able to eat only on one side very slowly. I didn’t want to bother them with my affliction.
In the evening I just took some extra strength paracetamol and watched a few television episodes I saved on my iPhone, finally going to sleep at 8 PM.
