weather and diving
Latest update: 1 September 2010
Weather We have had a high season with excellent diving, the weather has been good as well with lots of sunny days, but also more than usual days with a moderate wind.
May, June, July and August have been very calm months. We have stopped diving at Kata Beach, to be resumed again in November! Also the Similan trips have stopped, they will resume again in October.
At the moment the weather is typical for this time of year: some rain, some sun. Most importantly: all diving trips are going out to all destinations at the moment.
The diving is 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 and lots of jacks.
Temperatures of appx. 32 degrees Celsius (90 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 as it often is: varied. On average: Racha Noi 20 meters, Racha Yai 15-20 meters, Phi Phi 10-15 meters, Shark Point area 10 meters, Hin Daeng/Muang 10-15 meters. No diving at Kata Beach or Similans anymore.
Visibility in the area varies a lot day by day.
Sightings
There are the usual things to see. At Shark Point: seahorse, nursesharks and of course leopard sharks; at Anemone Reef turtles and nursesharks; 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 and a seahorse at Racha Islands; turtles, leopard sharks, seahorses and different types of reefshark at Phi Phi.
Because of the warm temperatures we have seen some coral bleaching in the area, especially at Racha Yai Island. It is cooling down again, and the bleaching seems to have stopped.
