Colin's First Dive in Thailand........

Colin Nappin (are you all reading this, Derby and Co?) took his first dive with me to day from the little beach of Yan Nui. However, as he's a fit young man, we were able to cross the half mile gap between the beach and a small offshore island by inflating our BCD's and finning out on the surface to preserve our air for the island dive.


Dropping down to 9 metres, I waited for Colin to break through the poor viz into the clearer water below....and here he comes



It was a lot clearer once we got under the first metres of poor viz created by the current travelling around the island.







Lots of starfish......I like these big blue and black hairy ones...











Now and then, inbetween the zillions of little fish, a bigger critter wanders out from the blue...



Look carefully in amongst the coral cracks and there's often a small moray eel to be seen.......


So, considering colin and Keith were out the lash big style the night before...well done to Colin for getting his act together and enjoying his first dive over here.

We'll try a few better ones now he's got back into his diving and hopefully get out on one of the local longtail boats and start exploring a few of the quiet islands.

The lads have gone off to Patong now to watch a Thai Boxing Tournament.......