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    Now I do not want to get ahead of myself here and start posting up Koh Tao pictures. I have another thread on the back burner were I started scanning up hard copy of the early Koh Tao days and I'm going to crack on with that after this is finished.

    But for our friend up top here is the original " Masterdiver " shop on Koh Tao in 91. They still use the same logo and name on Tao today who ever the punters are that bought it. Basic logo hand drawn by the Canadian.

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    I will post up this photo though. These are the very first two paying punters of " Ban Diving ". We walked into koh Tao with these two dudes, hired a boat and went diving.
    For the first two years all dives were done out of this tiny boat. Memories right there, the start of an empire.

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    Back to Phan-Gan. After I stumped up the 10 K the Thai cracked on with other business while we dived on Tao.

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    I shot 3 pics of the King Cobra, this is the 3 Rd one just before he scampered back down the Mountain. The other one shows him trying to climb the embankment on the other side of the road. I'll find it later somewhere.

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    Here is what happens when you keep Somchai the hired car driver waiting. Bob and I go over to Phuket for a live aboard Dive trip. Whilst there we did of bit of business before we Returned. We had hired Somchai for the trip back to Surattani. Anyway Bob is pissing around in this shop and had the driver waiting for 30 minutes. By the time we left it was pissing rain and Somchai now ain't a happy punter, he takes of at light speed. We got maybe 5 minutes down the road and he head butts this Police car.

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    Thank fuk both of us were sitting in the back and escaped with a few scratches and bruises. Somechai had a lady friend in the passengers seat, she smashed her head on the dash and wasn't to well.
    They threw her into a pick up and rushed her off to hospital. Somchai never had a mark on him even though he took the full impact. Amazing Thailand.
    Those amulets do work.

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    This is a pic of the Canadian guy Who I teemed up with in Bangkok in 87. I'd met this guy on the Koh San in the PB guest house. We trained it up to Chaing Mai rented a few Bikes and hit the mountains. This was taken on the Mae Hong Son Loop.

    Quite a major adventure for two newbies. We then headed down to the Islands and discovered Tong Nai Pan Bay on Koh Phan-Gan. I was 29 years old in this pic, now I'm all wrinkled with a head like a bag of spanners. This Canadian was not my partner in the Dive venture by the way.

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    There's some history here. This girl I met in Goa in 88. I had just started 9 months long service leave from the Fire service. I scored leave without pay which gave me the 9 months away from work so I hit the road landing in Bombay.

    I had been in India for 2 weeks when I met her in Goa , we teemed up and then traveled from Goa all the way through India by road and train and onto Kathmandu by road. We trekked in Nepal then onto Thailand with two Dodgers we met.

    I took them up to North Thailand to tour by motor bike then a bee line straight down to Tong Nai Pan. She returned to South Africa and now has the largest Backpackers in town. I still travel with this girl all these years later and many of my travel threads have been with this girl.

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    I don't mind a few eggs for breakfast. Not now though.

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    Anyway, Ive run out of hard copy.

    I'm returning to Perth end of April for a few weeks and will return with the rest of my pics on Koh Phan-Gan.

    I'll crank this up again later.

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    ^Looking forward to the new pics. I tossed all my pic.'s when I left the States. I didn't have anywhere to store them and nobody wanted them, so tossed the lot.

    Perhaps my one regret in cutting any and all ties.

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    ^
    I Have all my Pictures going back to teenage years. I'm in the process of scanning them up and storing them on two external hard drives here in Bangkok.

    I've documented most of my life's travel's and continue to do so on every trip.

    I figure that if I do not die a sudden death I will be looking at them and having a laugh on my death bed.

    I post pictures threads on Teak Door because I like to look back on the journey.

    If Teak Door folds I still have all my pics.

    True story that.

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    Not the best pic but it brings back good memories. Hill tribe visit way of the beaten track in 87. We would see a track leading off somewhere and just follow it. Many random encounters with hill tribe people along the way.
    Last edited by terry57; 12-03-2015 at 03:25 PM.

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    My husban, very hansum man!!

    Great thread.

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    Quote Originally Posted by patsycat View Post
    My husban, very hansum man!!

    Great thread.
    Is he giving you the horn Pats.?

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    Heh...

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    The neighbours won't be able to sleep for days and days!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by patsycat View Post

    My husban, very hansum man!!

    Great thread.

    Oh yes Pats,

    Too bad now at 57 I'm as ugly as hat full of arse holes.

    I'm not a fat bastard though.

    Oh well, I give me the horn back then.

    Nice to look back innit.

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    We may be old and grey and not fat. But our sense of humour never fades!!!

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    can't ya Terry, but thanks for a great insight to how it used to be! you wouldn't know it was the same island!!!

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    enjoyed it Terry, your a Time Traveler by now!

    p.s. I wish I was 57 again!

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    I first went to KPG in 1998 and stayed at TomgNaiPan just a few days after arriving in Thailand for the first time. Great photos that trigger a lot of memories so cheers Terry. I have some land there now and so it will always be a special place for me and the family. Cheers

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