8th June 2011

World Oceans Day!

And to celebrate it, we had an Eco boat ready to hit Twins dive site for some Eco action, with about 30 volunteers!

Splitting into team, some went out with bags and looked for rubbish, some went looking for Drupella snails, and some went to transplant coral.

At Twins, we have our 2nd nursery, which is now very over crowded due to the excellent growth, and we jumped into the water with our keen Eco recruits and headed to the nursery.

Upon arriving, there was a very important task to do first. Move a Crown of Thorns starfish that had moved in underneath. If it had decided to climb up the nursery, the results would have been devasting. The starfish did not want to go quietly, and it took me a good 10 minutes to wedge him out of his place with an iron bar, using all my strength!


Jen gave me a hand, and eventually he complied and moved into the awaiting basket. I then swam a good 50m away from our nursery and rehoused him.

Back to the task in hand, the coral transplants. Picking 15 of the most suitable candidates, we gave each of our recruits a single piece to transplant with our help. We headed over to "The Magic Tree" which is a Buoyancy World structure. In the tree are built in glass bottles, perfect for our transplants.



Two dives later, it was home time.. ready for a night at "The Castle" which is a nightclub I have only been to once before... Nightclubs are not really my thing... But since this was sponsoring Eco Koh Tao, then we had to attend and lend a hand badgering people for money.

We ended up leaving quite late, and the free buckets of alcohol took there effect and I was out for the count about 30 seconds after we got home..