weather and diving
Latest update: 23 June 2009
Weather The summer season has started here with good weather: an occasional rain shower, but lots of sun and nearly no wind, excellent diving or beach weather. At the moment it is nice and calm; sunny during the day with maybe a rain shower, there is a light breeze, the seas are calm.
The diving is very 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, lots of jacks, and the manta rays have returned to Koh Bon.
Temperatures of appx. 33 degrees Celsius (95 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 10 meters, Shark Point
area 5-10 meters, Hin Daeng/Muang 10-15 meters, Similans 20 meters. Visibility
in the area varies a lot day by day.
SightingsAt all divesites at the moment we do occasionaly see a whaleshark.
And there are of course the usual things to see. At Shark Point: seahorse, nursesharks and of course leopard sharks; at Anemone Reef turtles, nursesharks and quite often a leopard shark in the 5 meter range; 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, a frogfish and frequently manta rays at Racha Islands; turtles, leopard sharks, seahorses and different types of reefshark at Phi Phi.