Koh Doc Mai - Phuket
Submitted by sunshine on Thu, 2009-09-03 10:10
Recently visited Phuket and took the opportunity to do three dives, Koh Doc Mai (wall dive of island pictured) brilliant, King Cruiser Wreck (crap - typical silty rusty old hulk) and Shark Point at Anenome Reef ..........more clown fsh and leopard sharks than you can can poke a stick at. Slick dive operation with one guide to every two divers, you didn't even need to put your own fins on, the "deck boy" did it for you .............highly recommended, remember to tip the guide and deck boy as their daily income is only around 200baht (less than $8).
Colin Hay
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Nice pic Sunshine
That is a spactular looking place. How deep is the water there?
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Its a 28 metre strong current wall dive
And how the hell do I add more of the images, Adam gave me an instruction but it doesn't seem to work
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PM sent sunshine
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Here you go Sunshine
Some great pics there mate.
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Thanks Col
Much appreciated, and yes I was pretty happy with the pictures taken on my old Sony in a housing, if I have another trip up that way I will venture further to the Similans or Andaman Islands. Fishing wise I tried to get some of our group (89) for an exclusive charter, cost only around $500 for exclusive use with up to 8 people aboard including lunch, trouble was with the hotel and bar happy hours it was impossible to get any of them in their rooms before 2.00am ............next time
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You're welcome sunshine
Bummer about the fishing trip.
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This is Sunshine's favourite pic
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scottbec
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looks good
I am going over there in 3 weeks. cant wait to see the sun again...
Been looking into a few fishing charters, but havent seen any that have much luck or good evidence of catching decent fish. Saw one with a few tiny wrasse which looked way too much challenging for me...
jersey
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Wonderful Shots
Sunshine,you took some great photos.jersey
sunshine
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Fishing Phuket
Plenty of charters, the night fishing one really appealed to me but time ran out, costs are very reasonable .........diving was great but we only had 8 divers aboard - it was capable of taking 50 (ummm dont know that would be much fun - flashing fins ?????)
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awesome
Awesome shots sunshine, amazing!
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some great shots there and
some great shots there and those lion fish are so gracefull just hovering around with the current
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great pics
Top pics alright, love the cuttlefish! Cheers for helping out Col.
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I hope the Monties this week
will provide some great visibility for diving (the yacht is filled with as many tanks as we can muster) and I have some soft plastics which hopefully will break my duck hre in the west - report next week and yes, thanks Col for all your help, much appreciated