Paradise View

Posted by Heidi

The next morning Ryan and I arose, second as always to Chris and Danae. We had our last meal at Morning Star Resort (another pancake chock full of fruit goodness for me) and then took it easy for the morning. We hopped on the back of a ute to the pier and caught the ferry to Koh Tao. We paid an extra 20 of the Baht to be given the honor of spending the journey in the VIP room. This meant we had air-con and got to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 2 (and yes, again we arrived at our destination before the end of the movie).

The coastline of Koh Tao looked absolutely beautiful as we approached it - amazingly blue water and beautiful green hillsides with lots of coconut palm trees. We got another ute to our hotel – View Cliff Resort. Ryan and I checked in there, but since the boys were gonna do a dive course Chris found a cheaper deal and stayed with Danae at AC Resort just down the road. View Cliff was beautiful – our room was called Paradise View and that it was.

Chris and Ryan signed up for a 3-4 day dive course and immediately slipped into a class to watch some diving videos. I read on my balcony sipping a vodka and enjoying the view. Life sure is tough sometimes. The boys got let out after an hour or so with little study packs in which they had to complete homework hahaha.

We were staying on Sairee Beach, the “main strip”. It’s a very laid back beautiful strip along the beach lined with open air bars and restaurants. We watched a beautiful sunset over the ocean as we had some cocktails, beers and dinner. Kebabs and barbequed seafood are the specialty around here. Mmm mmm. There were some fire twirlers down on the beach in front of us and later on a couple of lone fireworks went off. We then retired to bed to the sound of techno music pumping on the beach until the wee hours of the morning.