Thailand December 02 and January 03 - diving and other adventures


As well as diving these pictures show our travels around Thailand from Bangkok, via Hua Hin to Khao Sok and on to Phuket where we took Colona VI to the Similian Islands. Dawn and I took the boat South to dive Hin Dieng and Muang, Phi Phi and King Cruiser, then North to the Similian and Surin Islands. We had hoped to get to Richlieu Rock but the weather was unfavourable. No whale sharks but loads of mantas, leopard sharks, big parrots and squid. As usual click on the first thumbnail and then next preview to see the next, please ignore the adverts.

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A manta high above us
P1010011.JPG 		A porcelain anemone crab
P1010019.JPG 		Giant moray
P1010040.JPG 		Christmas tree worm
P1010042crop.JPG 		Garden eels
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A lone garden eel bends in the surge
P1010047crop.JPG 		Varicose warty nudibranch
P1010050.JPG 		Giant moray
P1010066.JPG 		Moray making off
P1010067.JPG 		Sleeping leopard shark
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Dozing leopard shark
P1010075.JPG 		Dramatic sunset over the Similan Islands
P1010076.JPG 		Yet another moray
P1010078.JPG 		Bluefin trevallys patrolling the reef
P1020004.JPG 		Bumphead parrot fish
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You looking at me?
P1020022.JPG 		A male and female pair of bumphead parrot fish
P1020024.JPG 		Being so large they don't seem very concerned by divers
P1020025.JPG 		Dawn on Koh Payan
P1020051.JPG 		Similian No. 3
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Self farming nudibranches on Elephant Rock
P1020102.JPG 		Strange bed fellows
P1020105.JPG 		Dawn responds in the usual manner to an attempted photograph
P1020130.JPG 		Deep in the jungle on Phuket
P1040064.JPG 		One of the crowded beaches of Phuket
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Blatant advertising!
P1040087.JPG 		Cloud bonsai outside Wat Chalong
P1050184.JPG 		Wat Chalong
P1050187.JPG 		Our decrepit transport
P1050193.JPG 		One of the Stupas of Wat Arun
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The steps up the Wat Arun stupa
P1060199.JPG 		A memorial to a wife...
P1060213.JPG 		Some evidence of who we were for the rescue workers - assuming the tricycle taxi would crash and kill us.
P1060223.JPG 		Bangkok by night, the way it looks best
PC200032.JPG 		The chedis and stupas of the grand palace
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Rob Spray.