Ko Similan

... was such a gorgeous day, and looking out to the horizopn to see the 9 islands appear one by one was really exciting. Similan is actually the Malaysian word for 9, so that's where the name comes from. The first snorkelling opportunity was at island 9, ...

It was another early start to get our transfer vessel out to the Similans. The boat was snug, but we had much more room on the dive boat, especially after the snorkellers all headed off in the transfer vessel. Soon we were under the water at our first ...

... bends on my last dive in Sipadan where I did 9 dives in 3 days, but we were all pretty excited to get to the Similan Islands as it was touted as one of the best dive sights in Thailand.  Unfortunately, the Similans are nowhere near Phuket.  We ...

Well I'm now a certified advanced scuba diver - yippee! It wasn't plain sailing though - literally. The Similan Islands are one of the top dive sites in the world - white sandy beaches, crysal clear blue waters - basically paradise. There were only 5 ...

After a heavy night of triple gin and tonics, washed down with Tiger beer, I did the schoolboy error of not dropping panadols before I went to sleep. In the middle of the night, my head was screaming, so I did the only thing I was capable of. I ...

Sting once sang about fields in Bali and Gold and shit like that, but he obviously has never been in a field of Titan Trigger fish. They are nasty bastards at the best of time. Huge with big beady white eyes. Yes, yeterday I was attacked by one, just for ...

Today was the last, I made it. For all the words of encouragement that Dave gave to me, he died in the ass. Actually, he wasn't the only one. Quite a few people came down with some kind of illness in the last 24 hours. There was a lot of spewing being ...

And on day eight, it finally happened. We lost two people. Never before in all of humanity have we seen a German woman cry, but Meike proved that she is human after all. Karsten and Meike left us as they had to go home. It saddened me very much as during ...

The group we are in are loads of fun. PA and Dienne are instructors and are kitted up to the max. PA also has a great eye for finding things, so I tend to stick to him like a bad smell. Normally, we all wear shortie wetsuits, which are like rubber, but ...

Similan and Surin Islands Live aboard 31st to 2nd February 2009 Day 1 At about 7.45 we are collected from Amsterdam Resort and taken to the Wicked Diving dive shop. There we gather as a group of 12 and are then transferred to the harbour at Koh Lak. ...

Because of the problems I am having, I am worried about going back into the water. Dave looked at me and said, you are old, and there are five dives left, try the first and see how you go. I did this, grabbed Fred, told him I was up for the first, and he ...

... had was falling into the engine room on the 3rd day when they forgot to replace the floor board when we came back from Similan #2. I can't actually believe that I fell over 2 meters and didn't break anything. I was all covered in cuts and bruises, but ...

We were meant to go a little further South but we were told that there was red algae everywhere. This would cause the visibility to be shit and the same would be for fish life. Fred pulled out of his hat a wreck dive instead. No longer was I a wreck ...

We were placed into to two groups. In ours, we were led by Fred and we were diving with Karsten, Meike, PA and Deine. The were all mega experienced, we were pussys compared to them. Could be a good thing, might be a bad thing, but we would just have to ...

The first morning on the boat after a well deserved sleep we got up at 5.30am and Brenda took myself, Anna-Leanna and Nick diving beyond 18m to test our knowledge and skills we'd learnt in order to do a deep dive.  It was cold and very blue ...

... good).  But all too soon we had to say goodbye to Lucy and Mike and head to Koh Phangan, as we just can't come to Thailand and not go there.  So off we went on another coach to Surrantani to get the overnight ferry. When we got to the office in Surrantani ...

... the water. We followed him as far as we could but then had to turn back in case our boat left without us. The Similan Islands are real tropical island type places with amazing boulders all around the edges of the islands, which also have very little ...

January 29-February 2, 2009: Similan Islands, 100km off the coast of Phuket, Thailand in Andaman Sea Life on a Liveaboard Dive Boat As mentioned in my last entry, Mary and I signed up for a 5-day, 4-night liveaboard in the Similan Islands, which was ...

My Facebook Status... Simona is really disappointed! She paid a lot of money to go an a live-aboard diving trip to Ko Similan and Ko Surin, but had a cold and couldn't equalize!=NO DIVING!!

This island is slightly busier than Ko Chang but this doesn't mean hectic it means there are about 20 people on a 3 mile stretch of beach. There is a small village on one side but you need a motorbike to get to it and around the island, which we did.  ...