Racha Yai Scuba

Today we are going scuba diving so we had to get up early to eat have a shower then get out for the bus. when the bus pulled up mom and dad called it a “chicken bus” because it was a truck and in the back there was a wooden frame with two benches in it. It was a little bit of a drive to our first stop where we picked up the other people that were scubaing. Mom couldn’t scuba because it would hurt her back so she went snorkeling. When we got to the place we were diving on the boat we got on our gear and we jumped in. Mom had to snorkel in a different place for some unknown reason so me and dad went on our own. There were two dives, they were both in the same bay so we went on the first dive on the left side of the bay. The first thing I noticed was that most of the coral on the sides was dead from people touching it, but the fish were still there and that’s what I came there for. Dad videoed the dives on the “Joey Cam” which is a head mounted camera that files were you look. We saw a lot of fish in the sea anemones or however you spell that and in the coral. We even saw a sea snake swim up to the surface. But at that point I was almost out of air (because of my addiction to breathing) so we came up. After we got on the boat and had lunch we went over to the other side of the bay and went back in. In my opinion this was the better dive because we saw a sting ray ( images of Steve Irwin came to my mind) and a flounder our guide somehow spotted in the sand. And the coral was different on this side because there were big rocks coming out of the sand so there was more coral on those rocks. We saw a really cool kind of shrimp too. It had to little hammers on it’s face and it would beat stuff open to get it’s food. After this dive we started on our way home. But about one fourth of the way back we had to save two stranded people in a little boat (of course our captain charged 2000 baht to bring them back to our port and 3000 to bring them back to theirs) they chose to pay the 3000 and after we dropped them off we went back to our port then we got on the “chicken bus” and went back to our hotel. After that we went town and and got tickets to Phi Phi (spoiler alert) and we are still waiting for it right now (in case you didn’t realize I am blogging about this the day after). Then we went back to our hotel and went to bed.