Rob: It has been a great week for diving this week with Chris returning to Koh Lanta and joining me on 2 days of diving. Its not only great to see him again but it is great to watch his face when we encounter Ghost Pipefish, Harlequin Shrimps and Octopus all on the same dive at Koh Ha and he realizes again how good the diving is in the South of the Andaman Sea around Koh Lanta.

I took my camera on the 2nd day and we went diving around the koh Bida Islands. They are situated just under 2 hours from Koh Lanta and although the visibility had dropped in recent weeks it was still pretty good.

The first video I took was at the start of the dive on Koh Bida Nai. We had dropped in on the usual place where we got to see a Juvenile Bluering Angelfish, followed by a Sea Horse. Then as we started our dive we encountered this Sea Snake.Wow what an experience watching it move and seek out food. It is very poisonous but luckily it can’t open its mouth wide enough to bite us so we are in no danger.

The 2nd video is at the end of the dive. We where swimming with this turtle for around 10 minutes. It kept eating the Bubble Gum coral swimming off to another one but soon returning to the same one. Maybe it tasted sweeter.

Its so cool to experience the multitude of different species underwater but its even cooler when you witness something so poisonous and something so gentle.