I always enjoyed those trips. Somehow there’s a great sense of adventure getting on the boat ar one spot and getting off at another. On one trip Scuba Explorer was going on to Chumphon so they dropped me via dingy on some Koh Tao beach well after sunset. It was not easy to explain to the hotel where to pick me up. This was long before smartphones and location services.
In and out diving at Ki Lipe...many of the sites are 5-20 mins from the the beach. They will often go out for two dives then back to the beach so you're not out all day
In my younger days, perhaps. I lived on Saipan for 26 years where every dive was either a shore dive or day trip boat. At age 73 I'm spoiled by the ability retire to an air con cabin between dives and to only have to set up my gear once a trip.
