Yesterday went on a 3-dive trip in the area. It was my first time diving outside the Caribbean, so there was all kinds of new coral and fishies to see.
I caught a long-tailed boat pretty early (around 7:30ish), which met up with the larger diving boat. Then it was a 2-hour ride out near Koh Phi Phi, where we dove.
The first dive was a wreck dive, a 120-ft car ferry that sank on a trip between Krabi and Phuket. Gossip has it that it was an insurance job, because there were no cars on it when it sank. In any case, it makes a good diving wreck because it's made of steel, so it's lasting longer than the sunken wooden fishing boats.
It was pretty cool, except for the fact that it's a pretty popular dive location, and I spent half the time trying to avoid other divers. (And we're not even in the busy season yet!). The dive master said that on some days in the busy season, there's up to 200 divers in the water at the same time. Yikes!
The 2nd dive was even worse for divers, I could barely see because of all the bubbles.
After the 2nd dive we had fish with vegetables and rice, and it tasted amazing. Although diving always works up a hunger for me, and anything I've eaten after diving has always tasted great (like the crab cakes and baleadas in Honduras where I learned to dive, mmm).
On this dive trip were a French and El Salvadorian couple, who were dive instructors on vacation, an older German guy, and 3 German students on vacation.
The last dive was the best one, it was at the rock peak that the wreck had hit, and there were hardly any other divers there. There were beautiful blue coral that I don't know the name of, and we saw a whale shark, and a ray (again I don't know which type).
We got back to the resort around 5:00ish, and I met up with Marissa (who isn't certified, and so had spent the day on an elephant ride tour on the mainland). We went for dinner and then met up with the F/ES couple, had a few beers on a bar on the beach, and then crashed for the night.
Today we're making our way to Koh Phi Phi, we're just waiting for the ferry at 3:00pm. (Koh Phi Phi is the setting for the movie The Beach.)
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