weather
and diving
Latest
update: 9 March 2010
Weather
So
far this high season the diving has been very nice, the weather has
been good as well with lots of sunny days, but also more than usual
days with a moderate wind.
At the moment it is sunny and hot,
there is a slight breeze, the seas
are calm, the
trips to the Similan (daytrips, overnight trips and liveaboards) are
all going out at the moment. We also have made some excellent dives
(day dives and nightdives)
at our housereef here in Kata.
We expect the weather to stay excellent, with maybe an occasional
rainshower during the evening or night.
The diving is
nice at the moment, with quite lots of ghost pipe fish, frogfish and
seahorses at Shark Point, Bida Islands and Koh Doc Mai. Also plenty of
sharks in the area, both leopard sharks and black tips at the Bida
islands and lots of jacks. At Koh Bon we quite often see manta rays again.
Temperatures of appx. 34 degrees Celsius (93 Fahrenheit), sea
temperatures of 29 degrees Celsius (84 Fahrenheit).
At this
blog we have started giving
daily updates of the weather here in
the area, along with news about our diving center.
Check out this
website for a lot of our photos,
all made by our guests and guides.
Visibility
The visibility is quite nice at the moment. On average: Racha Noi 20
meters, Racha Yai 15-20 meters, Phi Phi 15 meters, Shark Point area 10
meters, Hin Daeng/Muang 15 meters, Similans 25 meters, Kata Beach 10
meters.
Visibility in the area varies a lot day by day.
Sightings
There are the usual things to see. At Shark Point: seahorse,
nursesharks and of course leopard sharks; at Anemone Reef turtles and
nursesharks; at Koh Doc Mai 2 seahorses and a frogfish; 3 different
shark species, plenty of scorpion and lion fish and also a turtle at
King Cruiser.
Turtles, see needles and a seahorse at Racha
Islands; turtles, leopard sharks, seahorses and different types of
reefshark at Phi Phi. At the housereef we have again lots of juvenile
life.
There are also regular manta ray sightings at the Northern
Similans and Koh Bon.
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