Staff dive...

Off we went....





Sunday we all went out for a dive, all staff at Wicked and Liquid. As a special treat we also brought out The staff from Happy Snapper - our favorite bar, and from Takieng - our favorite restaurant.

It was a blast. I knew things were going to be crazy when the cases of beer were brought on to the boat first. (of course only a few of us were diving, so there was plenty of lazing on the beaches and drinking cold chang for all the "snorkelers")

It was a perfect day, great weather, good viz and high spirits as we have one last month of hard work before the season starts to wind down. Hit the spot just right


Here's Keith hovering over a Kuhl's Ray at Deep Six. We're at about 20 meters (70 feet) and the Viz was getting bettter and better the deeper we went.

Keith and Ihad both had some great dives really deep on this site, but we hadn't done it in two years, so we didn't hit the really pretty spots. Still they were pretty good!
I had a white-tip shark swimming with me for several minutes (too far away for good pix, but he was there...I swear).

Deep six has some pretty sweet scenery with big rocks dropping off into the deep, wicked swim-throughs under these massive boulders and lots of big fishies around each corner....

Here's a Great Barracuda, hunting some little fellers. He took off when the flash went off.


Here's Keith and Kjerstie (pronounced Gherkin) and me waiting for the boat to come pick us up.










You would have never known it...but Anna is Swedish.

Normally she is quite conservative...



but after a big spread for lunch a few of us climbed up to the viewpoint on island 4 (koh miang)

and we got this.....



views to island 7 & 8, all the way north. A nice hike, but worth it.....





Afterwards the second dive....got a few more treats....


my favorite, some really cool flabbelina's....I got lost for quite a few minutes in this young lad/lassie (hermaphrodites)