liquid adventure | Khao Lak, Diving, Snorkeling, Liveaboard, Similan Islands

Christmas and New Year

The hurricane we’re talking about is the sudden influx of people visiting Khao Lak during the holidays Christmas and New Year. Everyone has been working like crazy the last couple of weeks to make sure all our guests can do diving and snorkelling in the Similan Islands.

Our liveaboard has been running back to back trips, speedboat going out full pretty much everyday and longtail trips been run several times per week to our local wreck, Bonsung. We’d like thank all our staff for putting their heads down and worked through all the craziness and a big thank you to all of you that went out on the boats with us during the holidays ! Hope you had a great time during your stay here and that the new year’s been brilliant so far.

We’d like to welcome the master of disaster, our company director/owner Joakim back from the land of sand. His arrival was the starting point of boats going full every day so he got thrown right into the middle of the circus.

He’s been out on a couple of well deserved trips on the liveaboard recently and of course have already scored a couple of amazing dives. Top one so far is a night dive at West of Eden at Similan Island #7, with a massive Marbled Stingray feeding amongst the sand and tubble. Our main tourleader Linus had a trip off and once again missed the ray that’s still on his “hoping to see one day” -list, that’ll teach him to take trips off !

“Lake” Andaman Sea Season

Now we’re looking forward to diving in January and February which usually has the absolute best conditions for diving with the Andaman Sea laying as still as a fresh water lake, even 60 km out at sea !

Around these months are also one of the best times to witness our majestic Manta Rays that visits Koh Bon Island.

Every season is different in when and how long the rays makes and appearance, so far they’ve been spotted on most dive sites, but we’ve been unfortunate and been at the wrong place every time they’ve been flying by. We’re still waiting for one of those unreal dives when they hang around us for the whole dive and putting on their spectacular underwater acrobatics show, we have our hopes up for the next couple of trips !

The full moon has just passed which means the water is teaming with nutrients, hopefully attracting these pelagic giants closer to the islands where we dive.

Upcoming Trips

There is still available spaces on our trips in the middle of January, the next one going out the 14th of January.

We wish you all the best for the new year and a big thanks to everyone that has been working and diving / snorkelling with us !

Regards,

the Liquid Team

High Season Conditions Almost The Whole journey

In comparison to our last liveaboard trip around the Similan Islands, this trip was a walk in the park as far as the conditions go. The currents that made the diving challenging during the last trip was completely gone and the sea laid flat for most part of the trip.

We started again at West Of Eden, moving up to Christmas Point for the 2nd dive and finishing our day at Koh Bon for the 3rd and Koh Tachai for our night dive. Fantastic diving throughout the day, especially the night dive at Koh Tachai Reef where our guests had barracuda visit the whole dive, giant lobsters and a surprise visit by a large Jenkins Stingray half way through the dive. One of our guests, Gaute Jaeger,  caught the sighting on video and we’ll be uploading it shortly.

Richelieu Rock Delivers Again !

Last trip we couldn’t make it to Richelieu Rock due to the weather but this trip it was no problem reaching the dive site in the middle of the ocean. Our tourleader Linus was extremely happy to be able to make his first dive of the season there as he’s been crippled by a bad back on the first couple of trips.

With finds like ornate ghost pipe fish, tigertail seahorses and cuttlefish on the first dive we were stoked to be able to do a 2nd dive there as well with even more special sightings.

We also dived Koh Tachai Pinnacle for the first time this season at it was lovely. We had currents but they were mild considering the pinnacle sometimes have ripping currents that won’t let you leave the descent line.

The corals are looking amazing, no shark sightings but the site was teaming with life and action from all the pelagic fish species that gets attracted by the currents. We also found a Comet Fish which is a spectacular little fish and hard to spot since it prefers deeper waters and usually lives under ledges and in crevices.

Amazing Bonsung

We hit a storm during, or rather the storm hit us on our last night just outside Koh Tachai, so instead of going for Koh Bon on the last day we decided to head closer to main land for calmer seas and do our last 2 dives at the Bonsung Wreck.

Once again our guests was overwhelmed by the fish soup that is the Bonsung Wreck and the first dive was mostly spent playing with the giant schools of juvenile barracudas and snappers that hovers above and around the wreck. This along with lots of macro sightings such as varieties of nudibranchs, juvenile lionfish, boxfish , sweetlips and angel fish made for two great dives at the end of the trip.

We would like to congratulate Victor for finishing his PADI Advanced course  and also the danish duo Thomas and Jonas for finishing their PADI Open Water course during the trip. Great job guys and good choice in where to start your diving career !

Thanks to all our guests and agent dive leaders that joined the trip, great atmosphere on the boat !

Liquid Regards,

Linus – Tour Leader

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