Scuba Diving in the Thai Islands.

Well, this is our last post for Thailand... And I'm very glad to be saying this because if we had waited many more days, we would still be in Thailand. Looking at the news, the main airport in Bangkok is closed (where our flights were out of). And has been closed for over a week . That makes this parting picture at our boarding gate really special!



We spent 4 or 5 days on the Thai island of Ko Lanta. Momma went scuba diving for the first time and after coming out of the water said "I can see how one can get really addicted to this!" That made me (Abba) really happy as Momma is excited to go scuba diving when we get back to California.




Thai boats on the mangrove shore as we are leaving on our boat to the dive spot.


Mamma's first Dive spot. Abba and baby went snorkeling while Momma was in the water.





When Momma was up for lunch between her two dives, I went snorkeling again and got down 10 meters on a breath. That was exciting.



Here someone threw a fish bone in the water and all these fish came up to nibble on it.


These pictures are from Abba's dive. He got down over 100 ft. This is Hin Daeng -- supposedly one of the top 10 dive spots in the world. Often there are very large manta rays and whale sharks to dive with. But not this time...






Nemo. We also saw Dori, Nemo's friend.


These are 1 to 2 meter barracuda. I swam with them for a good 20 minutes. This was my favorite part of the dive.


A sea cucumber (this one is about 18 inches long). The beaked parrot fish takes bites out of the hard calcium corral, and the sea cucumber eats it's poop. From the sea cucumber's poop comes the powdery white sand of the thai beach.





purple soft corral, an eel, 2 other small fish.


Red soft corral.


There was a beautiful quick rain storm on the way back to port from the dive.


Then there was a beautiful sunset!



Final words to the divers on the boat back in port.