Koh Tao

Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:43 PM
"So I'm on Koh Tao, which is pretty ridiculous on a lot of levels.
unbelievably touristy, like, jersey shore-esque stuff. but some of the
beaches and stuff are pretty ridiculous, I've spent the last few days
hiking around going to various beaches, doing some snorkeling, trying
as hard as humanly possible not to get sunburned and failing anyway,
as I knew I would. We even found a big rock in one bay that you can
jump off of. We didn't do it yet, because it was kind of a bitch to
climb up and the only way was this really dodgy looking rope. So we
ruled against it, but then as we were packing up to leave, we saw a
few people climb up and jump off, so we all agreed that if we did
nothing else with our time here, we would not leave this island until
we jumped off the rock (it was probably 25-40 feet, depending on where
you jump from). Then yesterday we rented a kayak (7 bucks for 5 hours,
3 person kayak), and went to this bay that was totally perfect, like
something out of a movie. kayak into this bay with perfect clear blue
water, couple of restaurants overlooking the water, european tourists
laying around topless, 5 dive boats ended up showing up, but it was
still beautiful. We went out to a party last night with some swedish
DJ, apparently he's really big, because thousands of swedes suddenly
descended on the island from nowhere. It was pretty ridiculous, but
too loud and insane to really enjoy if you weren't trashed. Anyway, I'm
taking today off, trying to get over the sunburn (which isn't too bad,
but could use a couple of days rest) and trying to give my legs a
rest.

Oh, and we haven't met a single other american on the island. We
occasionally hear someone who might be, but they always end up being
canadian."