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Hello!!
I've just got back from a 3 day and 2 night stay on a live a board boat in the Similan Islands and it was up there with the best things i've ever done!! I was only meant to stay 1 night but loved it so much i stayed on an extra night.
The whole thing was absolutely exhausing but the experience was incredible and I'm now a qualified open water diver! I had to do the theory side and the pool dives before i went but then i went on Saturday. It started off fairly average as i was diving in quite shallow water doing all the skills you have to learn in case of an emergency and what not. The worst one was taking my mask off underwater and putting it back on. was actually quite scary!But i majorly underestimated diving and that it can actually be pretty tricky.
But once i was qualified yesterday morning i was basically just exploring and you go off in groups of 4 with a dive leader and i could go down to 18m maximum. I saw some cool stuff like moray eels and sea snakes and clown fish and lion fish etc etc....
The food was amazing on board and eveyrone was so chilled out in the evenings. Although it was majorly hot so i ended up sleepnig on the top deck of the boat last night.
I did a total of 10 dives in 3 days so was absolutely knackered and it's pretty hard on your ears but despite not being overly keen, i forced myself to do my last dive today! I'm so glad i did because we finally saw what we had been looking for all day! We saw 2 4metre wide manta rays swimming towards us and then they went over the top of us. Everyone just sort of stopped and stared at them and it looked like they were swimmng in slow motion because they're so big. Definitely one of the coolest things i've ever seen!
The only downside really was the huge amount of jellyfish stings i have all over my arms and legs. My fear of them has kind of turned into a hatred. They are defnitely the worst thing about the indian ocean!
So that's it really. was an amazing experience and hopefully i can do some more diving later in my trip... if i have the money as it has completely blown my budget!
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