To Ao Loh Dalam
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Sun 22 Jan 2017 23:57
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To Ao Loh
Dalam
 Ao Ton
Soi. We had a truly horrendous night rolling side to side, it never let
up even when the tide turned.......a charter catamaran so close as to need
someone out watching by the anchor for most of the night.......They apologised
profusely this morning when our captain visited in order to find out their
plans......they left at nine thirty. The site meeting for us - the vote
was an easy one. Move. The boys went in for bread and to get rid of the rubbish
and off we went.
  About a mile and half out of the bay
we passed a family working hard on their kayak, the
little girl seemed quite unconcerned despite the chop and stiff
breeze.
 The first
corner.
  An uninspiring gap ??? – soon interesting when a long
tail appeared...................
 ................that was dwarfed by the massive vista.
 Very difficult to tire of this
scenery, always new caves and shapes to look
at..........
 ......the colours
change all the time too.
 A stack that didn’t make
it.
 The view to our
left as we enter the bay.
 Our four mile hop from the yellow star to the red arrow.
 Soon anchored we went
off for our first Thai snorkel in the warm water of the bay, a spot all to
ourselves. Visibility was fair and it was a surprise to see very little rubbish
(just a couple of beer bottles) despite the hundreds of long tails coming and
going each day. There was a great deal of dead coral but glimpses of regrowth
and a few new lumps of hard coral. Big rocks hid swarms of huge parrot fish in all colours and sea
slugs abounded.
.
   We saw a chap of
the seahorse family, a glimpse of a squirrel
fish and a usual suspect.
       But it was the
clams who stole the show, hundreds of them in every colour, some a few
inches across, some up to two feet. We spent a happy hour or so, explored the
other side of the bay and got home just before torrential rain fell – yet again
with a charter catamaran way too close, after some hand and vocal signals from
Bear they upped and went, thank goodness. Time for strawberry daiquiris, showers
and lamb shank with all the trimmings. After a few games of Rummikub - where
Bear and I were trounced, I beat Alex five two at Sequence to bring us one all –
time for bed....... The disco music from the beach seemed to quiet down just
then, nice.
ALL IN ALL A RELIEF NOT TO
ROLL AND A DELIGHT TO BE SNORKELLING
A PRETTY LITTLE HOP AND AMAZING TO SAIL SO CLOSE TO THE
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