The diving and its end

The diving of the first day was awesome. Let's see if our next days will be awesome as well. We started with a morning dive in location called North point.

Priceless

Not much to see on the first dive of the day. In between first and second dive we had some free time to explore the main island with a significant rock on top of the hill.

A break from the moving boat

Time to enjoy!

On diving spot called Christmas point we witnessed couple of White Tip Reef Sharks cruising around. Since sharks are considered as shy animals (surprisingly), it is hard to spot them. Hence there is a 2 meters long shark one on the following video.

Before the last dive of the day Joe warned us of possibility to witness so called Green Monster. We were ready to jump into the water therefore there was no time to actually clarify what Green Monster is. We were diving and suddenly all fish started to rapidly swim towards rocks and corals to hide. We looked in the deep blue and suddenly green wave of cold and murky water reached us. We grabbed each other for hands and try to find safe spot somewhere. Most of the times we were able to find nice spot to wait for Green Monster to pass by. Due to strong currents in that area, Green Monsters are quite common. Our diving guides knew what to do in such situations but it was freezing cold!! Nevertheless experience was priceless and we now know what Green Monster is.

Boris with a puffer fish in the background

Giant Moray Eel

Breathing real air with the wet equipment on

Stars are not only on the sky!

It was time to call it a day. We locked ourselves in the cabin and take a good night rest to recover our strengths for upcoming two days of diving.
Next morning we heard: "It is a beautiful morning in Similan Islands! Rise and shine!" from Joe which was the sign to wake up, prepare our equipment and get ready to jump into the crystal clear water.

Beautiful morning dive

Octopus

Same octopus...

We finished the first dive of the day in the early morning. We had enough time to do another dive on the same location, Tachai pinnacle at Koh Tachai. We jumped into the water and quickly reached out final depth of the dive. We swam around the corals and suddenly it got darker under the water. We looked up and became breathless. Above us was swimming 5 meter wide Manta Ray. This magnificent animal danced around us for couple of minutes. The feeling was outstanding.

The star of the day: Manta Ray

Manta Ray still dancing around us as well as a group of barracudas - Priceless!

Lost in yellowness

Sea horse

Among the animals on the pictures we also saw some tunas, mantis shrimp and bay box fish.

Our captain turned the boat around and we headed back towards mainland. The last day of liveaboard we stopped at Hin Laung, where we spotted a stone fish. Before the last dive location was well known Koh Bon, West Ridge where 2 meters wide Eagle Ray came to say hello.

The last location was Boonsung Wreck near to Khao Lak mainland where we saw a lot of baby fish, all sorts.

Bat fish

Box fish

Giant Squid

One of the most dangerous animals in the world, Stone Fish

Baby Moray Eel

We concluded our diving with awesome feelings and crazy good experiences. Some of the highlights: Manta Ray, White Tip Reef Sharks, Hawksbill Turtle, Green Monster.

All and all well balanced trip. More to come. Stay tuned.

Underwater greetings from Similan Islands,

Boris & Jerneja