Day 56 - 30th March 2010

It's the last day of Reef Check today and Si is starting team teaching an Open Water Course so couldn't come out on the boat.  He was pretty gutted, as it turned out to be 'Speedy', Crystal's speedboat.
Apart from yesterday morning, we'd never been on it and now it's two days on the trot for me.
I waved goodbye to Simon and we headed out to the 'Lighthouse' reef which is on the other side of the island.

Today the students are doing their final survey on a shallow (5m) transect 100 meter line where the findings will be logged onto a global database and I headed out with Katti (another Instructor) to survey the deep transect line (10m).  I took the Invertebrates survey as I find that a lot easier than identifying fish ;-)

The visibility was pretty good, an array of coloured coral, abundance of fish.  I was amazed at the lack of sea urchins and sea cucumbers compared to Mae Haad reef.

After Katti and I  had finished the deep survey, we headed off for a fun dive as we still have lots of air left so we headed off trying to find some caves but unfortunately didnt find them and got attacked by a couple of large Trigger fish which was fun  ..NOT!

Back at Crystal we collected the data and transfered it onto forms which Nathan will later log for global use.

In the evening, I caught up with a few people in the bar whilst waiting for Simon to finish his academics with his student before heading home.

Jen