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Over the top !!!

29/11/2017

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Top level dive cruise to Mergui Archipelago

Top level dive cruise to Mergui Archipelago

If there is one thing we can say about this last trip in the Mergui Archipelago... it is all said in the title ...
As an introduction to this new season, it gives us high hopes ;)

You can see the smiles in the faces of our happy customers! It was a great atmosphere on board thanks to: Claudio from Argentina, Ricardo from Spain, Ann-Marie from Ireland, Claes from Sweden,  Ghislaine and Alex from France!

We saw so many stuff that I don't even know what to start with ...
So we'll start huge!
That must have been the best unexpected encounter of the week ... on a night dive ... when you just see this biggy coming straight to you, that's an experience!
Eagle ray in Myanmar

And then, to meet with two fatty nurse sharks in a narrow cave ...
Nurse sharks in there caves

​What was amazing first, was the number of fishes, everywhere on every dive site!
Plenty of fishes and beautiful soft coral
Angel fishes

​Glass fish all around ...
A glass fishes
 
​And second, there was big and small everywhere! That's what makes Burma different!
​Nurse and white tip sharks, rays ...
Beautiful blotched stingray
The fly of the eagle ray...

An incredible number of cuttlefishes and octopuses, even mating ;)
The color changing cuttlefish...
Camouflage expert, the octopus...

​Amazing patterns and colors... Guess from what?!
​Amazing patterns and colors... Guess from what?!

Fantastic corals ...
Flower? Mushroom? No, coral!
Seafan Forest in Mergui Archipelago

​We didn't need to beg the divers to do the four dives a day!
​We didn't need to beg the divers to do the four dives a day!

Underwater, it looked more like that:
Diodon Hystrix
Happy dive buddy on The Smiling Seahorse cruise
Seafan Forest in Mergui Archipelago

Back to the boat, exhausted but happy! There was still enough energy for a drink ... After the last dive of course!
Back to the boat, exhausted but happy!

​Or a round of Yam's!
A round of Yam's?

And the morning after, here we were going again in the middle of the fishes!
Clown fish cached by Franck Fogarolo
A dangerous lion fish on the coral reef...
Angel fish and so beautiful Nudis eggs...

​Also in the sand, there were nice surprises!
A curious scorpionfish...

​We were not the only curious ones, they were staring at us too!
We were not the only curious ones, they were staring at us too!

The only one who didn't look very pleased to see us was our first stonefish of the season! But he never looks smily anyway ;)
A well camouflaged stonefish

Some juveniles around, made us even happier!
Blue angelfish
Tiny Seahorse

Last but not least, the world of the smally ones!
​Nudis ...
So colorful nudibranch!
 
Shrimps of all kinds: durban dancing, squat, glass shrimp, zanzibar... and so much more!
Durban dancing shrimps
Glass shrimp

And a spearing mantis shrimp!
And a spearing mantis shrimp!

​Our favourite ones:
2 tiger tail seahorses

And Franck's favourite, the spanish dancer!
The graceful spanish dancer

This time, we had a special guest on board, Camille (the "office boss") was having a funny holiday cruise!
Camille, the boss, can be funny too!

During the island hopping stops, always nice views of the local life:
Local sea life in Myanmar

​From above, it was as beautiful!
Beautiful Mergui's waters!

​Crazy skies ...
Blue sky and sea on the sunset...
Golden sunset in Mergui Archipelago

And an unforgettable sunset on Black Rock...
And an unforgettable sunset on Black Rock...

To finish, congratulations to our students: Claes who did his Open Water, Advanced and Nitrox course; and Ann-Marie for her Nitrox certification!
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Special thanks to Ghislaine and Alex, it was a pleasure to welcome you again on the MV Thai Sea; and see you next year ;) !!!
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Camille has been traveling the world since her mid twenties and dived many seas before finally settling down in Thailand in 2012. With her husband Franck, they opened The Smiling Seahorse liveaboard to offer cruises in the most unexplored area of South East Asia and became quite the experts when it comes to diving in Myanmar! Proud mother of two she still travels as much as she can and usually joins a dive trip to Mergui Archipelago every month.

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