{"id":12143,"date":"2024-03-14T23:59:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T10:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12143"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:17:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:17:49","slug":"thailand-day-14-liveaboard-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-14-liveaboard-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 14 – Liveaboard Day 2"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Second day of the liveaboard. Wake up call is at 06:00 which is in time to take a photo of the sunrise, especially when you’re not sleeping in your cabin but on the roof of the boat like I do<\/p><\/div>\n

So, diving again. The day starts with this Butterflyfish, this might be the best photo of one I’ve taken so far, they are very camera shy and normally face away from you the moment you look at them<\/p><\/div>\n

Scorpionfish<\/p><\/div>\n

If this was painting I’d call it “Coral with green fish”<\/p><\/div>\n

And this one “Yellow fish”<\/p><\/div>\n

I wish I had a macro lens (well I do, but not for this camera and not for underwater use) to capture this in more detail<\/p><\/div>\n

Looks like a bright orange Christmas tree to me<\/p><\/div>\n

Coral Grouper<\/p><\/div>\n

I need a second strobe, to get rid of that shadow<\/p><\/div>\n

If you don’t pay attention for too long you can easily lose the group<\/p><\/div>\n

What a clown this fish<\/p><\/div>\n

Diving under arches<\/p><\/div>\n

And in caves<\/p><\/div>\n

This HUGE fish was at the entrance of the cave<\/p><\/div>\n

Golden Puffer<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

It’s still pretty dark, which makes it hard to take decent photos of things outside of the strobe’s reach<\/p><\/div>\n

Sea Krait<\/a> (a snake)<\/p><\/div>\n

Cleaner Fish<\/a> cleaning the (I think) Snapper<\/p><\/div>\n

That was the first dive, now it’s time for our surface interval and in 2 hours or so we can do the next dive<\/p><\/div>\n

After every dive we always hang up our swimwear to dry and put on some dry clothing (but not in that order)<\/p><\/div>\n

Koh Haa<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Tentacles of the Sea Cucumber’s mouth<\/p><\/div>\n

Yellow boxfish<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of Christmas Tree Worms in the foreground, a bunch of divers in the background<\/p><\/div>\n

Found him<\/a>!<\/p><\/div>\n

Big fan coral, I tried to get the fan coral itself lit so that it would contrast nicely with the dark blue background, this is the best I could do<\/p><\/div>\n

Nudibranch<\/p><\/div>\n

Close up of those things, their surface isn’t smooth, they have lines on them, like fingerprints<\/p><\/div>\n

We need to ascend through this ‘chimney’<\/p><\/div>\n

And that’s where you come out again (the bright light, that’s the torch of the diver that was behind me)<\/p><\/div>\n