Andaman Sea - 7 day scuba diving trip

Nic, myself and our best buddies Steve and Debs set off on our liveaboard. We lived on the boat for 7 days and 6 nights and it was rewarding but very tiring. We did 22 dives in total and saw an amazing array of marine life, including a sea horse, cuttlefish, bat fish, turtles, white-tipped sharks, box fish (the size of a pea and the size of a football), shrimps, crabs, sleeping and awake parrot fish, trigger fish (one attacked Steve - very funny), anenome fish (Nemos), barracudas, leopard sharks etc. etc. etc...

Here's Phi Phi island where some of the film The Beach was filmed:



This is Fin (our fab Dive Master) with a map of a dive site that Debs, the great artiste, drew:


Another beautiful spot where we spent the night:


Here's the 4 of us having fun in the big blue:



Nic hanging out with the very inquisitive Bat Fish:


A beautiful Sea Horse (how cute?):


Two amazingly colourful Harlequin shrimps:


An incredible Cuttlefish (I could watch them for hours changing colour and shape):


You can't see me! One of the many many Scorpion Fish that we saw on the trip:


Steve was ill on the last day of the liveabaord and sadly missed the last dive but me, Nic, Debs and Fin had an amazing dive and we saw Leopard Sharks. This is a photo of one of them with Nic behind it. It was an amazing experience to get so close to such a beautiful, ingtriguing creature:


Just as we were about to get back on the boat we spotted a Hawkesbill turtle. He/she was the craziest turtle we've ever met and he/she played with us and attacked us for about 10 minutes. It was one of the most surreal moments of my life and a great way to end the diving trip.



After the liveaboard, we had 2 more nights in Kantiang Bay but sadly Steve was very ill so it was a bit of a sad end to their holiday. Fingers crossed Steve is OK.

So now Nic and I are back on our own. We fly to Cambodia tomorrow (27th February) and we're excited about exploring a new country.