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Lets go back in time - this is from my participation in 3rd Under Water Cleanup at Koh Chang on the 18th April 2007 

These pictures are not full of fishes or corals at Koh Chang - we didnt spend time looking much…  but looking for all the trash…

Lots of divers ready for the cleanup 

Some of us before the cleanup - it’s Don with the shades in the middle, first dive since his surgery!

My dive buddy on one of the dives - check out his bag…  we just went up with sooo much shit from down there

And me….

Yeah, it seems like my blog has been down sometime in the weekend, so when I wanted to blog to blog from Koh Samet yesterday I didnt have a chance…  damn it…

Today its time heading for Koh Samet - I’m really looking forward to see the island that Benjamin and I visited around 6 years ago…  and I’ve heard a lot has happened…  more resorts, lot more turists, more beer-bars, more upscale places and the prices has gone up a lot, BUT the beaches should still be great - and things does move forward soooo….  let’s see - Koh Sames here I come! 

It turned out that my former Thai Number/subscription (12call) couldnt recieve international SMS’s, but it could recieve international calls (probably because 12call earned on the international calls, but didnt earn on the SMS), SO I got a

NEW MOBILE THAI NUMBER +66 891435076
(this number, +66 844231427, will not be used anymore!)

It seems like true move is a better choice…  let’s see..

Btw please remember to include your name in the SMS - I lost all my contact, so I need to rebuild the list…  damn.,..

Was invited to join the 3rd Under Water Cleanup at Koh Chang and it was a succes. I joined White Sand Dive Centre, Don and his crew for a rather long day of diving/cleaning - really interesting and everybody was working hard!
At our first site, which wasnt a dive site, but rather a place where Thai fishermen dump all their shit…  nets, hoses, bottles, tires ect..  there we a LOT of junk, and we quickly got our bags filled up…  I went up and down 5 times on that dive…
The next one was regular dive site and we did find some trash there, but fortunately its was in small amounts.

Really a great thing to participate in and its great that Project A.W.A.R.E arrange and the Thai Government are sponsoring something like this!
Btw the 16-18 dive centres, their staff and guests did remove 5 ton of trash from the sea on the 18th and I’m sure they removed a lot more today.

soooooo sorry! Its not for being rude… but I just tested with Benjamin and my Thai number cant recieve SMS’s… sorry, thats the reason why I’m not writing back….
looking forward to get my Danish one back!

Btw I can receive calls… Mr Frederiksen from Vegas tested it a night rater early…

I just have lost ALL the ,obile numbers in my phone….
My Thai number is +66 844231427.

On the Taxi from the ferry I meet Matt, an English instructor at Dive Point, and he told me about the coming 2 days cleaning the beaches and underwater event by the local Dive centres, their staff, some invited guests and sponsored by the government…  Sounded like a great thing to participate in and I rushed down to the local dive centre White Sand Dive Centre (Matt and Dive Point is at another beach… but he would of course help me there if needed…) and Don, the owner, promised to try to include me in the cleaning….  and then he helped me a lot finding a decent place to stay - so nice of him!
And yes, Don found a free spot for me - so I’m going to partake tomorrow - gonna be so cool!

Koh Chang turned out to be difficult to find a decent place to stay…  Decided for White Sand Beach, which is the most developed (read commercial) one and it turned out that small rooms, not that clean and with sort of open toilets (large holes for air in the top of the walls) was between 450-800 THB, which is pretty expensive by even Bangkok standard….  could of course have taken the resorts between 2000-3000 THB, but that would be too easy…  so with help from Don at a local diving center I went around for a couple of hours and found Island Lodge - the description at Travelfish doesnt quite mention how nice it is to find a nice clean room and good service at that low price in the main beach area…  yes, it is a small walk…  and really a small walk…  but I really find it nice!

Was rather early up this morning - needed to catch a mini van at 07.45 - as always in Thailand busses/vans are about waiting and picking more tourists up before the real driving starts…  so out of Bangkok around 09.00-09.30 - the trip went fine…  of course a food stop so the Thai drivers could eat a lot….  haha
But we went on time and the 320 km trip and 30 minutes boat trip ended up in 7 hours trip….  6 hours and 30 minutes estimated, so it was pretty close…
And I arrived at Koh Chang around 15.00….