Diving into 2022 with lovely guests and 2 beautiful whale sharks!
Happy New Year 2022 to all ocean lovers! How did you celebrate? We hope that you had fun and that this year will be filled with happiness and marvellous diving. For us, 2022 got off to a good start with delightful encounters: not one but 2 Whale Sharks and the oh so pretty juvenile shaded batfish were the higlights this week!!
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This journey started in 2021, on the 27th of December from Tap Lamu pier with a full boat ready to visit the top dive sites in Surin and Similan National parks.
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We started by exploring Surin Islands on the first days where we went nudi hunting, this season is particularly great to see pikachu nudibranchs which are always a hit. We caught a glimpse of a guitar fish in Torinla but unfortunately couldn’t get a shot this time. Yellow rock was beautiful, with amazing visibility and a massive school of sweetlips. But what we loved the most on this dive was this gorgeous juvenile batfish playing model for our pleasure.
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We did the first night dives in the bay where divers could see various types of crabs, moray eals hunting and cool nudibranchs.
But for sure the highlight of Surin National park this week, was once more on Richelieu rock, the next day, where we met 2 friendly whale sharks, it was so exciting!
But for sure the highlight of Surin National park this week, was once more on Richelieu rock, the next day, where we met 2 friendly whale sharks, it was so exciting!
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Similan islands had perfect conditions: maybe 50 meter viz this week and mild current.
Schols of fusilier, jacks, trevallis and barracudas were surrounding us and we went through some fun swim through making the perfect frames for our photo shooting session 🙂
Schols of fusilier, jacks, trevallis and barracudas were surrounding us and we went through some fun swim through making the perfect frames for our photo shooting session 🙂
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We also did some blackwater diving and met some curious types of shrimp and a fish larveas.
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We could aslo admire a clownfish family watching its nearly hatched eggs!
This juveline angelsfish was also magnificient. Don’t you think?
This juveline angelsfish was also magnificient. Don’t you think?
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This cruise was special as well because we celebrated New Year’s eve on the boat!
We had a lovely time and had some nice food and drinks to share with our amazing guests!
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We had a lovely time and had some nice food and drinks to share with our amazing guests!
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