I am leaving for Bangkok tomorrow and will write more then, but I wanted to quickly get down the details of the most incredible experience I had last night. I was sitting around drinking after dinner with Ty, Oliver and our newly acquired group of friends when Ty had a wild hare to go for a swim. About 10 minutes after he left, he came quickly back and said, "I am not sure if I am just high or what, but there's something going on in that water that I can't even describe."

We all quickly threw on our bathing suits (tempting as the idea of skinny dipping might have been, the Thais seriously frown upon such things) and dashed semi-drunkenly and semi-stoned from the sleepy indica our barmen sold us, into the dark water. Ty instructed us to wave our hands around in front of us and watch closely. Inches below the surface, millions of phosphorescent plankton swirled around us like constellations. With every movement, intense bluish-white tracers would follow, growing in intensity the more vigorous the movement and fading to nothing almost instantly when still. I was completely stunned by the unexpected beauty and started to cry. I swam down toward Nature Bar where I could hear the music and spent the next hour playing with the plankton, orchestrating my own light show in time to the music. It was truly magical. The sea changes quickly around here, but I will go tonight and see if I can find them again.