With a boat load of excited divers we left Khao Lak and headed off to the main site for seeing Manta Rays in Khao Lak - Koh Bon. Just yesterday there had been a sighting of a Whale Shark too! It was all I could do to stay calm.
Well, it turned out a bit different than we expected...
Here's Michelle and Ali looking for something interesting on their dive.
Michelle, Donna and Gerry were all here visiting ...trying to find some good diving. So it was pretty weird having three Americans diving. Plus me! We were the majority on the boat. how often does that happen?
It was great though, they were really fun, positive people and being from Georgia, they said "y'all" more than I do!
Ali guided them and showed them a really sweet time. Mantas on two days, all sorts and of course his famous riddles...
As they were in very good hands, I had a deeper dive with Keith and we had a great time too!
This is a Manta sitting right above us on the Ridge while we were distracted by cool
flabellinas....which is what I was really focused on. An amazing snail, but of course I couldn't get it in focus. Then when I came back to the shop...all proud and bragging, I get a "oh yeah, that's a Maldivean Soft Shelled snail" or some such rubbish. Well it was the first time Keith or me had seen one, and we were impressed.
Here's more time on the ridge with Keith. We were just inundated with Manta Rays. This one did two very close "swim-bys" of us, then went on to circle Michelle, Donna and Gerry for quite a while. It was stunning, watching it for the ridge, as they were int he blue and round and round this Manta goes.We were all impressed, and then I got another one circling me during my Safety stop.
anyhow....check out our site Wicked Diving. We are going to Koh Bon almost every Tuesday, Easter and Christmas.
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