Fear and Loathing in the Gulf of Siam

[chillyinCanada]

Well I found your description amusing... thanks for the dry dive!

Me too! I couldn't decide whether or not I was glad not to have been aboard or wishing that I had been.

 

[Buadhai]

Well I found your description amusing... thanks for the dry dive!

Thank you. I knew I had to do something worthwhile with that trip….

 

[Centrals]

I might enjoy it if the trip is FREE or might not even if I got paid for it.
I am glad that the boat operator never replied my mail!

 

[Buadhai]

I wouldn’t hesitate to take this boat again. I’ve already booked a Losin trip in September and will also do a South Andaman trio in January.

 

[Centrals]

I wouldn’t hesitate to take this boat again. I’ve already booked a Losin trip in September and will also do a South Andaman trio in January.

The boat is innocence but the clients is another story.
Enjoy your trips because you have your wife to keep you company.

 

[Buadhai]

We normally book with an agent who has chartered all or part of the boat and who has some say over the schedule. Those trips are always well managed and good fun.

 

[diveUAE]

Then there was an apparently wealthy couple who dressed identically at all times. They had matching wetsuits, matching post-dive capes, matching jammies and even matching sneakers with "Loved" embroidered on the sides.

LOL! Must ask hubby, if we can do the same

Very fun report indeed:-D

 

[Buadhai]

LOL! Must ask hubby, if we can do the same

I think we're going to head in that direction as well.

 

[Divemaster No.1]

I persuaded our guide to skip the wreck on the second dive and instead swim to Koh Ngam Noi which turned out to be a lot more interesting. Aside, of course, from the ten minute swim across the barren sand between the wreck and the island

If you ever have to do that swim again take a very close look at the sand you're crossing, it's one of the my favourite places in the Gulf for nudibranch, cuttlefish, stick pipefish and porcupinefish. They usually hang around the chains and piles of rope left abandoned out in the sand.

 

[Buadhai]

If you ever have to do that swim again take a very close look at the sand you're crossing, it's one of the my favourite places in the Gulf for nudibranch, cuttlefish, stick pipefish and porcupinefish. They usually hang around the chains and piles of rope left abandoned out in the sand.

I have to admit that I was accentuating the negative on this part as well. Our dive guide is a real fan of sand. I suspect we did this dive this way (from the wreck to the island) so that he'd have some sand fun. Unfortunately, we didn't see much of anything except a large population of goby/shrimp pairs.

So, yeah, there was some method to this particular instance of madness.

Last trip we saw a Peacock Razorfish in the sand, which was a first for me.

Perhaps I should be kinder to the sand!