Our first full day on Koh Phangan we rented scooters and went on a mission round the island. Scooters cost round 150 baht for 24 hours, pretty cheap. They should make the helmets bigger tho. Its pretty warm on the island, so boosting round on bikes makes it more tolerable, nice and breezy. First stop was a waterfall/lookout. The waterfall was barely more than a trickle. Me and Wrighty checked out the same waterfall 4 years ago when we were here and it was way better then. The look out was a good workout to get to, but was pretty choice once you got to the top. Awesome view out over the western side of the island. The clouds rolled in as we got back to our bikes. Scootering round in the rain is not that much fun. Thunderstorms are even less fun. We boosted back to Thong Sala to grab a feed and wait for the thunderstorm to pass. We were drenched, but it wasn't cold, so it was ok. After lunch, we managed to find Sea Scene and went for a swim/walk round the resort. If you act like you're supposed to be there, no one asks questions, so we never got asked if we actually stayed there or not. It was round 4pm, so we thought we'd better boost, so that we could still get round a few of the other beaches on the west side. It was low tide, so we could really swim, more like sit in the knee deep water. We worked our way round to the north side of the island and followed this sign to a lookout. The path got a bit hairy and steep in places. Would have been sweet if we had offroad bikes, but not as easy on scooters. We bottomed out and nearly bailed a couple times, but eventually made it to this look out. The sun was setting, so it was a pretty sweet view. Didn't hang round too long tho, stuff tryna ride the scooters back on that path in the dark! We boosted back to Haad Rin as it started getting dark and the "lights" on the scooters were pretty shite. I'm pretty sure my bike had a speed limiter, I couldn't get my bike faster than around 82km/h. Asty reckoned he got to over 90km/h and the bike was still climbing. I felt a bit ripped off.
After giving our bikes back in, we went for a quick swim in the pool at our resort, then headed down to the beach for a feed and some beers. The nights leading up to the Full Moon Party are just as good as the night itself. I actually think they're better - not as crowded. Kind of like how New Year's Eve Eve is always better than actual New Year's Eve. Anyways, we grabbed a couple buckets and perched up watching the fire dancers at Cactus bar. These guys are awesome man - VPT would have loved it. Fire pois and fire staffs. I don't know what it is, but alcohol makes fire AWESOME. Bumped into Joslynn and Stacey, along with a couple of their other friends from Canada and hung with them for the rest of the night. Got pretty loose man. Good fun tho!
Next morning was a bit rough. Didn't really have time to let the hangover pass as we had to get our gear sorted for the Full Moon Party. Bright florescent paint, bright clothes. Pretty much try grab anything that's bright. Town started humming with people. Apparently there were around 20,000 people were expected to turn up to the beach for the party. EPIC. We painted up and headed down to the beach around 8:30pm. The beach was still fairly busy, on par with the night before. We were trying to meet up with a whole bunch of people down there; the Canadians, Erika (another Canadian), and the Germans (Lena and Sarah). We blew out big time, and only managed to find the Germans. By around 10pm, the beach was packed. It got pretty hard to walk round. People still seemed to be coming to the beach from everywhere. Met this kiwi dude from Timaru and his mates from Gold Coast. They were smashed pretty early on, so not sure how/if they lasted. Can't really explain the party, so i'll just list a few words that describe what went down: buckets, florescent clothes, drunk clothes, fire jump rope, fire dancers, LOUD music, UV paint, craziness. The Germans called it a night around 12:30pm, so Asty and I went for a wander to down the beach to check out the far end. They had a designated sleeping area, which was pretty tempting at the time. The effects of the nights before caught up with me again, so we didn't make it to sunrise. By that stage tho, everyone was pretty much out of their minds. The music was still pumping til round 8am. 
Today has pretty much been a waste of a day. A lot of sleeping and Karl Pilkington. Heading to Koh Tao tomorrow morning. In one week we'll be in Dubai, and in two weeks we'll be in London!!
Did you pull German twins Critty! Nice.
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