Hi folks.
I'm looking at a visit to Thailand with my wife - coming into Phuket - and doing a liveaboard for 7 nights.
I have a couple of questions and was hoping for some guidance.
Time of year / sea conditions /weather =
What months would you avoid, or be best. The only months that are likely not going to work for us is May, June, July, August, Sept.
I was looking at an October trip, or possibly February. But other months are possible.
Best liveaboard itinerary:
Any liveaboard route that I should do or should stay away from?
About our dive experience:
We are a mid 40s couple, fit to dive.
We have both been diving >10 years with several hundred dives, we generally dive a couple of times a year - Cozumel is a yearly trip. The only liveaboards we have done was the Red Sea - last May. We are comfortable in the water...no one likes fighting a current the entire dive.
What is important to us: reasonably warm water (76F or better) clear (60ft vis or better) and something interesting to see - we love reefs, and reef fish - but the chance to see a pelagic is always exciting. Manta rays and whalesharks are on our list of things we have not seen. Sharks and turtles are always exciting...as are big colorful reefs and all the things that live on them.
Topside: beyond the liveaboard we will likely spend a few days before and after there Wish we could do more, but it's hard to take more than 10-12 days of vacation at once. Once you figure in the flight time that means coming down, having perhaps a day before the liveaboard, and perhaps 2 days after.
Is there anything we should do with that time, given how little we have (that one thing that everyone should do other than dive, while they are there).
I'm still looking at boats, itineraries - sites, I'm at the very early stage of planning - so any info about it is quite welcome.
Thanks,
Ray
I'm looking at a visit to Thailand with my wife - coming into Phuket - and doing a liveaboard for 7 nights.
I have a couple of questions and was hoping for some guidance.
Time of year / sea conditions /weather =
What months would you avoid, or be best. The only months that are likely not going to work for us is May, June, July, August, Sept.
I was looking at an October trip, or possibly February. But other months are possible.
Best liveaboard itinerary:
Any liveaboard route that I should do or should stay away from?
About our dive experience:
We are a mid 40s couple, fit to dive.
We have both been diving >10 years with several hundred dives, we generally dive a couple of times a year - Cozumel is a yearly trip. The only liveaboards we have done was the Red Sea - last May. We are comfortable in the water...no one likes fighting a current the entire dive.
What is important to us: reasonably warm water (76F or better) clear (60ft vis or better) and something interesting to see - we love reefs, and reef fish - but the chance to see a pelagic is always exciting. Manta rays and whalesharks are on our list of things we have not seen. Sharks and turtles are always exciting...as are big colorful reefs and all the things that live on them.
Topside: beyond the liveaboard we will likely spend a few days before and after there Wish we could do more, but it's hard to take more than 10-12 days of vacation at once. Once you figure in the flight time that means coming down, having perhaps a day before the liveaboard, and perhaps 2 days after.
Is there anything we should do with that time, given how little we have (that one thing that everyone should do other than dive, while they are there).
I'm still looking at boats, itineraries - sites, I'm at the very early stage of planning - so any info about it is quite welcome.
Thanks,
Ray