Day 130 - Freedom!

We were booted out of our room this morning to make way for people who were actually diving at the resort, so we moved to Sairee cottage and got a bigger, better and cheaper bungalow. Today we went down to Freedom Beach, an awesome little bay in the south of the Island - it's tiny, maybe only 70 metres long, with the occasional mangrove and loads of coral about - about 10 metres out the floor turns from sand to coral, with loads of Sea Cucumbers (which are Echinoderms, I learnt today) and fish. I went snorkelling and saw loads of cool stuff, including a school of about 200 Parrot and other fish, including various bright yellow, purple and green ones who were perfectly happy to let me swim about above them, following them as they grazed on the coral. Back on the beach I saw a large naked Russian man having a swim, swiftly followed by a naked Argentinian doing a handstand in the water while his (non-nude) friends and their baby looked on, laughing. Freedom Beach indeed. We watched sunset from the originally named Freedom Bar on the rocks, and headed back - oh, the Cicadas/Crickets/whatever they were were incredibly loud - we couldn't hear each other talk at some points.

In the evening we all met up after dinner and played drinking games on the beach, including Circle Of Death, which was a tricky one - trying to explain a drinking game to such an international crowd was hard. It's a pretty good mix we have here - Taina, Mine, Tuomas and Pasi (Finnish), Myself (English), Marie (Canadian, speaks French and Czech), Nick, Charlie and Sara (American), Marta (Czech), Ivan (Serbian-American), Christine and Asia (French, from france and Guinea respectively). Monty (German), and Sandy (Taiwanese/Thai). The word games didn't go down too well.

We made an important decision last night as well - noone has gone to Koh Phangan (some were going to go and see what was going on anyway, although the party has been cancelled), instead we are all going tomorrow afternoon, apart from a few who are going at 9 am to try and get bungalows for us.