Yao Yai Snorkel
Beez Neez now Chy Whella
Big Bear and Pepe Millard
Wed 25 Jan 2017 23:57
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South Koh Yao Yai
Snorkel
  We went in off the back of Beez and
really thought we would turn back, the visibility was poor but we thought we
would try in the shallows for a few minutes. Well, no sooner than we were in
five or six feet of water than things appeared and became worth a second look.
New and old coral, hard and soft. I crossed my
fingers for Al to find Nemo.......
  A dozing
trunkfish, very well behaved, slowly came out of his resting
place.
 Posing
beautifully, about a foot in length.
 Silly me, I should have taken the
picture, then called Al. In doing it the wrong way this moray eel scurried under
a hidey-hole – all we saw was his head and neck sticking
out next to the orange debris...........
   New organ
pipe, a giant clam who shot in and a coral garden.
  Healthy
stuff, just as well vis is a bit cloudy or there would be hundreds of
people here. Instead we get the bay to ourselves.
   We saw lots of the
‘usual suspects’ plus a Mr Fish.
 A chap heavily
disguised in his jacket, up against the white-tipped finger
coral.
  Al’s first dangling jobs and my shy rock
lobster.
  Herds of fish came
through as we wiggled in and out of the clumps.
   Our target was the corner. There it
was colder, deeper, rougher but we were treated to some lovely sea plumes.
 Later, Bear worked out said ‘corner’. From Beez Neez to the corner was 0.4 of a nautical mile, plus the zig-zagging
left that we had done at the beginning – so there and back over a
mile.
  On our way back to Beez - a
real treat was this little nudibranch and a three
foot orange pipe coral.
 Then we saw a huge
green anemone, complete with anemone crab and Nemo
poking out. Hurrah.
   ALL IN ALL SURPRISINGLY
GOOD
LOTS OF INTERESTING THINGS TO
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