Calm sea, nice weather, today we’ll be diving at 3 dive, 1 halfway to the Phi Phi Islands (Koh Doc Mai) and 2 at the Phi Phi Islands (Koh Bida Nok and Koh Bida Nai)

After the first dive at Koh Doc Mai, relaxing on the boat and waiting till our bodies are ready for the next dive

Philip taking a photo

I can never remember which is which but I think this one is Koh Bida Nok

Which would make this Koh Bida Nai

After the 3rd dive, Philip and Jan having a bite

Bye bye Phi Phi Islands

View back to the west, Mt Ansted in the distance

View west again towards the Barrier Range

Dart River and Barrier Range

More and more cloud drifting in and it’s still about 2 hours to the hut, hopefully no rain before I get there

To the south, the Forbes Mountains, everything is still looking sunny

The scenery here is beautiful

A selfie

Mt Head hidden in these clouds

I know today’s hut will be smaller then the previous one, so not enough beds for all of us, I’m therefore trying to stay ahead of the other walkers which isn’t easy as most of them are younger

There are a couple of beautiful flat areas here, you could land a glider here if you needed to

It’s getting the glider out that’s going to be the difficult part

Then the track suddenly goes through forest again

But forest normally makes for faster walking then tussocks

Once out of the forest I can see the hut! Rain looks imminent

Almost at the hut, one look back

Here we are all in the hut, playing Uno. The big beard is Philip

Being one of the first to arrive here paid off, I had a bed, quite a few people had to sleep on the floor, which is less than ideal of course but everybody was in good spirts, also because a few of us carried some good spirits!

Track log of today, distance was about 17.5 km and that took about 5 hours and 15 minutes