Day 31 - Koh Toa

Early start today, up at 6am to get on the 7am boat going to 'Chumphon Pinnacle' for our first dive.
On our way, we stopped at 'Zest' to pick up our usual order of a fried egg sandwich then zoomed down to Crystal to gather our kit and headed to the boat.  Morning dives are great, apart from being a lot cooler, generally the dive sites are pretty quiet.

Once in the water we descended to around 22m, anything deeper than that, the visibility deteriorated.  After a couple of minutes, I spotted a moray eel and then saw my first Thai Lion fish   YAY!    It's really odd to think that in Egypt they are everywhere and there is only one solitary one here  ..that I've seen or heard about.
Chumphon Pinnacle is where we saw our first whale shark even though it was only a few seconds.  I think they must know we're back as sightings have been rare. Just after we left last year, it was whale shark heaven here.  Typical!!

Second dive was at Twins ..we had inside info on where the Sea horses were but unfortunately we didnt find them.  Next time perhaps.   Apart from that, the visibility was excellent and we a lovely chilled dive, spotting a blue spotted ray, scribble file fish and at the end of the dive I found someones mask   ..what a result!

Back on land we stopped at the shops and got some lunch and went back to the apartment to eat and then had a welcome snooze.

In the evening we went to a Save Koh Tao meeting where they discussed the success all sorts, past, ongoing, suggestions were made for future projects and whats happening, whats needed for the sucess of this years Koh Tao festival.

After everything was done and dusted, a few of us headed to the 'Flavour' bar for food and then made our way home.

Jen
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