I finished up my Advanced Open Water diving course today. It's not as great as it sounds, it just means I went on a few more technical dives. I have done 6 dives in the last 2 days and it's been so much fun. I met my first American in my dive class. It seems to be mostly Europeans here, but most everyone speaks English. Last night we did a night dive. It was great, but, a little eerie being under water when it is pitch black. Although we each had a flashlight, the sea is a pretty big place and one little torch doesn't light up much of it. Surfacing to see the stars was phenomenal, it's quite a sight to be looking up and go from pitch black to seeing the milky way (they have that in Thailand, right?=). Today we did a full day trip spending the entire day on the gulf diving at a place called Sail Rock. I took an underwater camera and got some great shots. The top one is of a giant eel. I don't know how long it was since it was only poking its head out of the coral, but it had to have a 12-16" circumference, it was gigantic (here's and even better picture of a morey eel). Below is the yellow box fish I mentioned previously. 
As for the 'Reptile' blog, I forgot to click the button that allows people to post comments to the reptile blog, but thanks for the email responses!! I endured pretty well. After I finished writing I saw a larger lizard running around the wall. Since I can't kill a large lizard (I thought about trying and ruled it out as entirely too messy), when it ran behind the wall sconce I pretended like there was a crack in the wall and it got out. I slept soundly.
Overcoming fear of sleeping with reptiles: check.
Tomorrow I am leaving to go to Krabi, a town on the western coast of Thailand. I am still undecided as to where I am going after that. It is between Indonesia, via Penang, Malaysia, or the Philippines.
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