From Hua Hin the night bus dropped us in Ranong, a weird fishing town at 5.30am. We caught another rickety boat in the pouring rain over to MyanMar for them to stamp our passports - this was definitely our least favourite boat trip so far! Once back in Thailand with another 15day visa in hand we got a minivan to Champong and waited a few hours for our night boat to Koh Tao. The rusty old boat was huge and packed with people, concrete, leaf roofing, bikes, water and a dog named Bombzie! We slept in a little dorm on the boat until 6am the next morning and then made our way to Sairee beach. It took us a long while but we eventually ended up at Bans Diving Resort! We signed up to a PADI
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