Christmas gifts on this North and South Andaman cruise! 18-25 Dec 2021

The best Christmas gifts ever: 2 whale sharks!

Have you been good this year?? What did you get for Christmas? 
​We have probably been very good this year, cause Santa brought us a whale shark!!!

This trip was just awesome! We left Phuket on the 18th of December with 15 fantastic guests and explored Thailand's 4 best Marine National parks.
We started down south, near the Malaysian border with Tarutao National park next to Koh Lipe, also dived in Koh Lanta National parks around Hin Daeng, Hin Muang and Koh Ha before going around Phuket island to explore the North Andaman National parks of Surin and Similan islands next to Myanmar border! What an adventure!

The Smiling Seahorse Christmas tree

Batwing sea slugs

The 2 whale sharks were not the only gift we got on this trip, there were a rainbow of criters in all shapes and colours from this wonderful Batwing sea slugs (top right) to pretty Harlequin shrimps (below) read more about these Anibal lector of the sea in this dedicated blogpost.

We found a Mama Clown fish (clark to be precise) eye to eye with her nearly hatched babies.

Several Ghost pipefish on our North and South route as well as Napoleon fish and reef steaming with life!

Napoleon fish

Ghost pipefish

Black water diving on every trip: We love it!!!

Just like on every other trip, we did an optional Blackwater dive and met a myriad of Fish larvaes, all cutest than can be as well as cephalopods and drifting crustaceans in various stage of development.

There was also plenty of schools of fish to keep our eyes and cameras busy around the reef.

But I must admit my favorite this week were the two whale shark and this shy tigertail seahorse.

The gentle whale shark...

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