{"id":12237,"date":"2024-03-16T23:59:50","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T10:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/?p=12237"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:06:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T12:06:55","slug":"thailand-day-16-liveaboard-day-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edwinov.com\/edwininnz\/2024\/03\/thailand-day-16-liveaboard-day-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand Day 16 – Liveaboard Day 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Another sunrise at day 4 of the liveaboard<\/p><\/div>\n

Program for today, looking forward to those snacks!<\/p><\/div>\n

Shark Fin Reef, you’d think there’s an abundance of sharks here with such a name but alas<\/p><\/div>\n

Coral Grouper and Cleaner Fish<\/p><\/div>\n

Nice coral fan<\/p><\/div>\n

This (Dutch) dude in the foreground is becoming a real pain. Whenever the guide points out something interesting this dude races over to it, lies on the coral if he has to and starts filming for minutes on end, others will have to wait till he’s finally done. Oh, and he’s not used to looking around him so he’s constantly bumping in to others<\/p><\/div>\n

An Octopus<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

Fishes doing their thing<\/p><\/div>\n

Divers doing their thing<\/p><\/div>\n

Titan Triggerfish doing its thing<\/p><\/div>\n

Octopus swimming away, it’s of no use, I’ll follow it anyway<\/p><\/div>\n

It stopped swimming and is willing to pose for a photo<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of small fish here<\/p><\/div>\n

Our dive guide, guiding our dive<\/p><\/div>\n

Some huge stones<\/p><\/div>\n

Me<\/p><\/div>\n

Guide getting ready for safety stop and sending up his ‘sausage<\/a>‘<\/p><\/div>\n

Mike, one of ze Germans in our group<\/p><\/div>\n

Christian, ze other German<\/p><\/div>\n

Fishing boat<\/p><\/div>\n

I thought this was hilarious because this mop looks exactly like an Octopus<\/p><\/div>\n

On our way to dive site #2: West of Eden<\/p><\/div>\n

Again lots of coral<\/p><\/div>\n

And divers<\/p><\/div>\n

And small fish, but still no shark or manta<\/p><\/div>\n

But heeey! Two octopuses (or octopi, both are correct), that’s cool!<\/p><\/div>\n

It’s amazing how they keep changing their colours<\/p><\/div>\n

The have the same rectangular shaped eyes as sheep do<\/p><\/div>\n

A bit of colour in a dark world<\/p><\/div>\n

I really like how the strobe brings colour and life back to the otherwise rather dull coloured underwater world<\/p><\/div>\n

I’d say this is another grouper, they look funny<\/p><\/div>\n

Lovely big fan corals on the steep vertical walls here<\/p><\/div>\n

Lots of Crinoids on the coral again. It’s so easy to regard them as a plant when it really is an animal<\/p><\/div>\n

Whenever you get too close to these fish they rush back to the coral and hide in there<\/p><\/div>\n

Christian being German<\/p><\/div>\n

What I find funny here is that it looks as if the octopus is having a cigar in its mouth, when it’s really its siphon (funnel) which is used for respiration, waste disposal and discharging ink<\/p><\/div>\n

Fish checking out the octopus<\/p><\/div>\n

Amazing creatures, I’ve never seen so many of them in one dive<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh, we’re at Elephant Head Rock here, cool diving with those gigantic boulders<\/p><\/div>\n

This is once again something very special that you only rarely see: the (male) Ribbon Eel<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

See through in the coral<\/p><\/div>\n

The snacks! Om nom nom<\/p><\/div>\n

Ko Ba Ngo<\/a> (No. 9)<\/p><\/div>\n

Same, looks like a nice little beach there<\/p><\/div>\n

Christian beat me to it but I too swam from the boat to the beach<\/p><\/div>\n

Let’s hope the boat stays there or we’re screwed<\/p><\/div>\n

Tadaaaa!<\/p><\/div>\n