Another great trip diving in the Andaman Sea in Thailand. 14 guests from all around the world embark with a big smile on the boat in Phuket and happy to start cruising South.
 School of trevallies |  Coral reef Tarutao National Park |  Spadefishes (Batfishes) |
Congratulations to Sari from Finland and Blake from Australia, our two students from this trip, started straight away to study and managed to be certified Advanced Open Water Diver and Nitrox Diver after few days only !
Amazing soft coral reef of Stonehenge - Tarutao National Park
Thank you to Koh Lipe and its beautiful dive sites and their beautiful creatures.
We were lucky to discover a stone fish, two frog fish, plenty of coral catsharks, seahorses, razor fish and some colorful Nudibranchia.
We were lucky to discover a stone fish, two frog fish, plenty of coral catsharks, seahorses, razor fish and some colorful Nudibranchia.
Coral catshark - Talang Steps Tarutao National Park
 Stonefish - Synanceia |  Occelated Frogfish at 8 Mile Rock |  Chelidonura Punctata nudibranchia |
Time to cruise North and look on and in between the big granite boulders of the Similan National Park. Another frog fish, a ribbon eel, a curious eagle ray and some black tip reef sharks were spotted in the middle of millions of fishes swimming above the reef.
 Granite boulders - Similan Islands |  Ribbon Eel |  Yellow Warty Frogfish |
The Blackwater dive from this trip was great, and we spotted many tiny and strange critters.
 Amphipods on salp  Unidentified crab  Juvenile Flounder |  Pencil squid  Pelagic Sea snail  Squirrelfish - Holocentridae |  Unidentified Shrimp  Grouper Larv  Pelagic Larval Stage of a Tube Anemone |
Tiger Tail Mantis Shrimp larvae
Back to the limestone type of rock with the famous Richelieu Rock and its school of barracudas, trevallies, emperor for four dives. You don't know where to look, in the blue for the dancing fishes, on the reef, covered by thousands of glass fish, for the beautiful peacock mantis shrimp, ghost pipefish and seahorse.
Peacock Mantis shrimp
 Lobsters |  Two-spot Red Snapper |
Ornate ghost pipefish
Thank you for this amazing trip and looking forward for the next one already.
Happy guests onboard The Smiling Seahorse
 Beautiful Barrel sponge  Koh Haa |  Table coral  Diver surrounding by Glassfishes |
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