Sunday, August 9, 2009

Some photos around the island and underwater

After 4 weeks now on Koh Samui i managed to get a decent amount of work for me. And maybe there is a contract in the making at the end of the month.
To give a little impression of Koh Samui i will post some photos here too.
This is my house i am renting on the island. It is located near Big Buddha, wich is a very nice thing to take a visit to and see it for yourself.
This is a picture taken from the statue. It sits on a small island in front of the coast of Samui, and can be reached by a small road.

Underwater the world is nice too. Night diving at Chaweng beach here on the island can be a challenge for the people who are used to clear visability, but for people who learned to dive or dive still in the murky waters in for instance Holland, it will be one to remember.
Small stingrays, seahorses, snake eels, yellow boxfishes, scorpionfish, shrimps. and much more.
On Koh Tao however, the water has much more visability, up to 30 meters. Here you can find big schools of fuseliers, trevallys, rabbitfish, baracudas and batfish. Or just go for the smaller stuff like cleanershrimps, hermitcrabs and small partnergobys.
But the big ones are here also. Whalesharks are occasionally seen here, but in April seems to be the high season for those animals. Just an amazing creature to see, and i think my buddy from last year can say yes too about the magnificent fish.
Squirrelfish at Sailrock. No strobe used.
An impression from the divesite Sailrock. Clear visability and nice big tablecorals

3 comments:

  1. Nice pictures, Rich!
    Wish you luck and a lot of nice dives in Thailand!
    AJ.

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  2. Thx
    Andries. Will putt up some more pics soon.

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  3. Hi Rich, how`s he going?
    Time for an update...:)
    Greetings,
    Alberto ,Netherlands

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