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Big Blue Blog
Wednesday 17th March 2010
Another gorgeous day in Khao Lak - the sun is shining, the sky is blue, a fab day to be out on the boat diving!

The Pawara's exploring Richelieu Rock and Koh Tachai Pinnacle today,
they'll be able to watch the sunset over the ocean, then a dive tonight at

Koh Tachai reef, a really cool divesite to night dive
- often giant morays hunting, parrotfish asleep in their little bubbles, all different kinds of shrimp and crabs, octopus out and about...
Meanwhile our speedboat has whizzed out a boatload of customers to the northern Similans for some stunning diving and snorkelling around islands 8 and 9.

The snorkellers get to chill out in Donald Duck Bay, known locally as 'shoe bay' ( I think the rock the bay's named after looks much more like a shoe than a duck!) - an island paradise with the ubiquitous Similan white sand and turquoise waters - and see the plentiful marine life in the shallows whilst snorkelling, whilst the divers head off to explore the boulders of North Point looking for leopard sharks and the reef at Three Trees in search of turtles.

There's so many fantastic things to see whilst diving the Similan Islands, the macro nudibranchs and frogfish to the big sharks and rays, and a multitude of stunning fish and animals in between, you never know what surprises you're going to find during a dive!

We get a few species of marine life in the Similans that are a bit more rare than most, one of these being the bowmouth guitarfish. We see shovelnose rays sometimes too (both species are also known as guitar sharks) but a group of divers were lucky enough to find one of the bowmouth guitarfish at Breakfast Bend a couple of days ago. They're quite elusive, good spotting!
Now I know it seems like all we do is work, but sometimes we do get to party! Since Christmas was so chaotic for everyone, we deferred the festive jollies and celebrated Rick-mas the other day at Fanette and Rick's lovely new abode, it was really good to hang out with everyone, catch up and talk about non-work related events....we even popped open a bottle of champagne at midnight - Happy Rick's Year everyone! :)
- Amanda
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