Phi Phi Dive Trip
We had a great day yesterday (a budget buster of a day).
Chris' first dive trip since passing his open water had to be somewhere good, so we decided on a trip to one of the best places to dive in Thailand - Phi Phi (pronounced pee pee by the way).
The first stop after our 2 hour boat ride was Losama Bay. This was a wall dive along Whale Shark Wall. Chris had a bit of difficulty getting down to begin with - too little weight on his belt and ear equalisation problems, but got down eventually for a cool dive. He saw a giant octupus! Lots of other pretty fish & corals and stuff. Not down for long though - 30 minutes before he and another new diver got a bit short on air so surfaced.
The snorking wasn't bad either - after a bit of a hard swim in the current over to the wall there were lots of fish to see, including quite excitingly, some anemone fish. I got a bit scared of a jelly fish though - nasty little fellas.
After a spot of curry & rice for lunch we sailed a bit further on to Maya Bay.
Wow! They chose this location to film the film The Beach for good reasons - it's stunning. As we approached I wondered if I'd actually need to snork - the water was so clear. It was incredible. I could see at least 3 metres down, at times probably 5 metres and was surrounded by fish. Sergant Majors, parrot fish, surgeon fish, a porcupine fish and 2 kinds of moray eel.
Chris had an easier dive 2nd time round, a bit more weight and confidence. They had visibility of around 15m and saw puffer fish, lion fish, angel fish and loads of other stuff.
There's such beautiful coral around and the fish are so colourful. It was worth the money to just go to that one bay.
There was a guy on our trip who's job it is to make underwater films. He made a film of our day which we watched in a bar later that evening. He got a fair bit of Chris, including one close up of the hand signal for lion fish! We might buy the dvd when we get back to the UK and are feeling a little less stingy with our money!
If you look closely at some of the pictures you might be able to spot a porcupine fish & a moray eel!
posted by Chris and Jen Coleman @ 6:30 am
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Just a couple of words about the octopus...
Dunno if anyone saw the one they had at the sea life centre in Yarmouth a couple of years ago, but it was just a touch smaller than that. I'd estimate that if it spead it's tentacles our then it would have been about 3 metres tip to tip. It was just sitting against the rock wall and winking at us though.
The creatures around here just keep getting bigger and bigger. Can't wait to get to Oz and have a few encounters with some crocs!
Chris
Adventures with some crocs! I fear your adventurous spirit knows no bounds, make sure you come back with all your toes in tact!
Yvonne.
As you are not too far from Koh Phan Ngan - Are you guys going to the Full Moon Party? It is an incredible experience.
Hena
The full moon party is no good for us, because there isn't gonna be a full moon before we leave Thailand. The programme we saw about it on TV at some point made it look pretty bad though.
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