Wednesday, 24 March 2010

Swimming with Sharks: Mon 22 March


My last full day on Koh Tao and its packed full of fish. I meet Chris, an English woman staying up the beach, at 8am and we hire a small boat and full snorkel gear to go round to the next bay - Shark Bay - to swim with sharks. A Thai family went the morning before and saw loads but you have to go early morning or late afternoon when they come in to feed. I saw two sharks, quite large ones too. Chris took some underwater photos so I'll add these when she sends them to me.

Following lunch at the Buddha Cafe (where I have yet another veggie omelette made with spinach and shiitake mushrooms - so good I must recreate when I get home!) I join the dive school for two fun dives. I'm in quite a small group and have an instructor as my buddy so I see loads of fish including the supercute Box Fish. We also see two different species of Trigger Fish playing together which is quite unusual.

The photo above is of the Buddha shaped rocks on the headland at Chalok Bay.

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