KSA BLOGS

  Speaking about the Manta Show, few groups had Mantas at Hin Luang and West Ridge right at the beginning of the day, but the Show started in our second dive, with at least 4 Mantas playing around back and forth along the whole dive, such a great dive!!!!, was really hard to pay attention to other subjects like Napoleon Wrasses, Sea Snakes, Devil Scorpionfish....., with this guys around....

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  Another thing that amaze us this trip were this two Devil Scorpionfish kissing?, fighting?, mating?, what do you think?, were complitly  steady in that position. Again we founded the tiny Clown Frogfish at Richelieu Rock, the other Clown at Turtle Rock (this one got into a fight and loose one eye this last days, we think with the other clown frogfish living in the same are becaus...

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  Third one at Richelieu Rock, 2 new Frogfishes, one incredible tiny Clown Frogfish (Thank you Lianne for this one),  and a Freckled one living within the Brands of a Tubastrea Coral.   And now of course, the Big weapons!!, Mantas and Whale Sharks, with a amazing dive at Koh Bon West Ridge our second day, with at least 3 Mantas and a Whale Shark appearing for half of the boat...

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  Second day bring to us the first big surprise few seconds after we jumped at the North Ridge of Koh Bon, graceful Manta Ray coming to check on us, a bit later disappear into the blue and we decide to enjoy the rest of the dive until a second and bigger one appear flying when few groups we were ready to do the safety stop. Was a great day to start the day, followed by another great o...

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  Even our snorcheller on board enjoyed the Whale Sharks, and the Mantas we spotted in Koh Bon and…wait for it….in West of Eden, because we had three encounters with them, one in our second dive of the second day, another one the first one of the last day and the one in West of Eden our first day, such a surprise for the lucky teams. Kapppoomm, check and check!!!!!!   What ab...

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Another 2 SPOTFIN FROGFISHES joined this count at Richelieu Rock together with a great surprise, we founded a LONG-SNOUT SEAHORSE (or maybe Borbon, what do you think?) drifting in a piece of rope while we were doing the Safety Stop. For who doesn´t know several species of Seahorses are Pelagic, being able to travel miles hiking something drifting. Safe travels little friend!!!   Gho...

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  Another really special think we spotted was a Juvenile Clown Frogfish, at Elephant Head Rock, white and red (the one you can see at the picture above), just 1 cm big we can say is the cutest frogfish of this season so far. Nice!!!!! For the macro lovers one of the most special things together with the Ghostpipefish and Frogfish was this huge nudibranch (Starry Asteronotus), actually...

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  Second day at Paradise, with a amazing sunrise next to island number 4 we sailed north to do our first one in one of the most knowed ones: Elephant Head Rock: This maze of huge granite boulders is always hiding amazing new surprises. We started with a Green Turtle sleeping underneath a boulder, a Marble Ray doing the same underneath another one, the smallest Devil Scorpionfish ever!!!...

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    But is not finishing there, in Koh Bon we stayed 2 minutes seeing how a Peacock Grouper was chasing away a Bearded Scorpionfish, the poor one was jumping from one rock to another one and trying to looks scary towards the Scorpionfish, but didn´t work at all the several times he try it. But the best was in our sunset dive at The Dome, where we stayed 20 minutes with a couple of m...

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    Second day, and after our first dive at North Point to visit the Massive Sea Fans a Barrel Sponges of the Outer Pinnacle we headed north to Koh Bon, where seems the clouds of glassfish are getting bigger and bigger over there, is a marvelous show when the BlueFin Trevallies are hunting in organised squadrons among them. Above the ridge were Hundreds of Rainbow Runners and we enjo...

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  The Dome delivered the Usual suspects like Barracudas, TRevallies, Tunas and Koh Tachai North-West Reef another of the Highlights of this trip, a Leopard Shark sleeping underneath the Boat, hello there!!!! A great sunrise dive in the second pinnacle of the Dome, with a really cute Baby Devil scorpionfish, was a perfect start for what was coming, Richelieu Rock in one of his best days,...

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  First dive of the trip, Annita's Reef. I still cant believe what we saw in that dive. Submerged in the waters around 24m, suddently an spectacular manta ray passing over, around 5m deep. In these two season here I haven't seen any manta rays in Annita's Reef, so my state of shock last the whole day long. So if starting the trip, we see a manta ray, what else is gonna happen to us latt...

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  Now is time to visit Donald Duck bay to enjoy again the sunset from Sail Rock, relaxing time at the beach with a great postal picture evolving in front of you. Beautiful like always. And as last dive again Lobster city, or formerly know as Nam Chai or lastly for us Eagle Rock. With the usual amount of lobsters, crabs, moreys, Scorpion fishes and small night creatures. Our second day s...

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  Night dive in Honey Moon bay was incredible, seeing giant moray eels, cuttle fish, 5 massive lobsters, and the surprise of a Leaf Scorpion Fish that I have never seen in Similan. We arrived to Koh Bon, and did two dives. The current allowed us to stay in the ridge to see an amazing group of 50 trevallies hunting around, tons of glass fish, and a couple of Napoleon Wrasses. It was a re...

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  Three More to go today, including a visit to our friends,the Frogfish at West of Eden, another one to the Swim Throughs and Channels at Deep Six and the last one to the nocturnal creatures of Hideaway. Dinner, logbooks and Russian Songs thanks to Mr Russia and friends. Beautiful!! Now ready to jump at Elephant Head Rock where thanks to the Full Moon the current appear turning the area...

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