Send a kid to boarding school and they'll be able to live anywhere ...!!
That's our hut and I love it! I share it with Ingrid who's from Holland. She's a cool roomie.
The bathroom is pretty basic. When I first saw it - I was pretty impressed, I thought we had a plunge pool in there! Only unfortunately it's not supposed to be a plunge pool, there's no draining plug. One's supposed to just stand in the bathroom and pour the (cold) water over yourself... it feels pretty good so far and the plus side is that you can have a shower whilst looking in the mirror!
Otherwise back in the hut, there are two mattresses on the floor and 2 huge mosquito nets that create pretty cool sleeping cocoons - it's quite comfy. Now I can really say that Im backpacking! I've started to use my travel pillow, my satin sleeping liner, my bedbug liner (don't seem to be any but I wanted the authentic backbacker look :) and my head torch.
We're at the Wildlife Animal Rescue centre, 80 k south of Ranong and opposite the shores of Myanmar (Burma)
I arrived yesterday with Joanna & Kersty. We took the bus from Phuket to Baan Talae Nork (it took 4hrs hours instead of the usual 3) Joanna is an American and Kersty a Welsh girl who now lives in Oz. It was so funny we were picked up from the village bus stop and taken to the project by way of local transportation - sitting on the back of a pick up truck ;) The other thing about transport here is the amazing amount of people that can fit onto one moped / motorcycle... I've seen as many as 5 so far...!
When it comes to the turtle work, it's a pretty cool schedule, we leave base camp at 5pm and head out to the beach. We set up camp there, have a swim, eat dinner on the beach and then chat until we start to fall asleep. In pairs of two we each have a scheduled walk (4miles) at some point around high tide (2hrs before, during and 2 hrs after) The moon is almost still full so you don't need torches out there. Last night 3 of us couldn't sleep so in between our walks we got Sandy (male) our resident Chinese Volunteer to teach us Tai Chi!!! It was so surreal, Tai Chi on the beach in the middle of the night!
So far though the area has been really badly effected by locals poaching the nests and can you believe it they haven't seen any turtles at all this season but never mind it's great fun, a good social group and who can complain when you're sitting on a beach in Thailand!! :) Plus we're going to get so fit!!
OK that all for now folks as I don't want to hog the computer! Im sure there are lots of funny things I've experienced but cannot remember at the mo as we've just got back and had breakfast (yummy pancakes) and I'm tired. Time for a shower.
Oh BTW the photo shoot...!! Arghh, unfortunately that was Groundhog Day!! Well for a start... we missed the early morning flight to Phuket and finally got there at 15.30 which meant that by the time we got to the location ready to go it was exactly this time:
.... yes, not quite the best time of day to start a shoot!!! 
'World's shortest photo shoot'
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