Snorkeling
Heading out.
Boat route down south of Koh Chang (Chang Island) to five destinations.
The white monkey curious about some coral he found on the beach.
Coral, and a critter scuttling across the beach to... somewhere.
Our boat; quite large and carries perhaps 75 people. We have been in the boat for approx five hours going to five drop points. The crew provided lunch, water, snacks, toilet, and coffee.
Thailand has a long strip of land along the Gulf of Thailand that borders Cambodia; the mountains that form the Thai-Cambodia border can be seen in the distance.
Overall quite a pleasant day, though Pishcha got bit by a sea urchin at the first stop. We later flipped a kayak and lost a pair of flippers (though, thankfully, a nearby crewman saw us, helped right out kayak, and found the flippers which had drifted twenty or thirty feet to the bottom).
Many fish were beautifully colored, like rainbows, and many fish stayed in schools with their friends. The corals, also, were pretty cool amd some brightly colored. Next time a GoPro or waterproof phone case would be useful to actually take pictures underwater.
This sounds like a fun day! I can't imagine being bit! Is this a common occurrence? Do crew members typically hang by the passengers in kayaks or the shore to keep watch? Nice pictures!
ReplyDeleteMaybe saying she got "bit" is a misnomer; the sea urchins just sit on the ocean floor within a few meters of the surface. They're spikey and have some poison, though actually quite pretty.
DeletePishcha got too close and hit her toe. She's fine; I think it would be akin to a bee sting. Pishcha has been on other snorkeling trips through work with her students and says some of them have been sting but they get over it.
The area we were in was not large, so people happened to be close by.