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SO the last 3 days have been AWESOME!!! I am offically fresh off the boat from North Similans! Katy, Frank, Diego(I), Rowland (DI) and Karen (DI) plus 8 other guests boarded the Parinee and set off for the most famous dive site in thailand .. Richelieu Rock... plus koh bon, surin islands and koh tachai! Our role of the trip was to observe.. get involved.. learn the ropes of the how wicked runs.. learn how to do dive briefings, navigation, currents etc. So from the get go we were thrown into every situation from night navigations, die plans, dive briefing! awesome!
Day 1:
Koh Bon - 29.6 degrees, 5 manta rays, banded sea snakes, moray eels... WOW!
Koh tachai - 29.6 degrees, blue spotted ray, garden eels, nudiebraches, clown fish, hundreds of glass fish... !!!!
Katy was very seasick.. played villagers at night time... the werewolfs (Me, Rowland and Katherine) won!.. was tested on my dive briefing (went well)...
Day 2:
Richelieu Rock - OMG OMG. AMAZING! octopus, baracuta, scorpian fish, millions of fish.. spectacular site.. BEST DIVE TO DATE!
Richelieu Rock - 29.3 degrees, sea hodiverse maqntis shrimp riding a giant moral eel, katy "killed" me with her toothbrush, first self guided dive, DMT stress.. no one could decide on where to surface! ha!
Koh tachai reef - 29.7 degrees, ooctopus, shrimps, nudies, asian shot to surface :) ha!
Koh Tachai reef - 29.7 degrees, Night dive, between the 3 of us there was 2 torches and 2 compass's... i didnt have a torch.. sef guided.. stress amoung the other 2.. couldnt see a thing... happened to see a cuttlefish! yeow!
Katy still seasick.. beach in the afternoon with banana fritters, hot chips and pineapple fritters.. yum! big crabs...
Day 3:
Tachai Pinnacle (crazy current pinnacle)... crazy current, big cowrie shell, cool nudie, beginners struggling.. hiding amoung boulders.. 2 people nearly out of air!
Koh Bon - sea snake, relaxed dive, great visability, titan triggerfish making a nest... great dive
Boonsung wreck - tons of fish, cuttle fish, self nav dive, heaps of nudies, lion fish, honeycomb morays etc. great dive to end on!
The passengers on the bat were pretty cool. people to mention... Tara: 43 yr old canadian HILARIOUS!! Katherine (German)... also lots of laughs...
WHAT A TRIP! arrived back to my bungalow and visted steph for a quiet drink.. she got a job as an extra on that movie impossible!!.. and im gonna do it to. just playin dead on the beach and getting paid 2000 baht! DONE! lol! came home at 12:30 am to Frank and the girls (katherine and tara) on the balcony waiting for me to go have a drink with them... the night continued and ended up with a swim in phu khao lak pool around 3:30 am! Lots of fun!
back on the boat tomorrow! new adventures awaiting! BRING IT ON!
xxx
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