2018

2018

Happy new year to my family and friends. I hope everyone had a good start of the new year. I had a really good night. We started the day by going to a dive site called Hin Muang, Hin Deang. It took about 3 hours by boat, everything was fine – until we headed back to Koh Lanta.

The waves got very big and the wind picked up. The captain decided that we skip the third dive and go straight back to Koh Lanta. After a wavy ride we finally reached shore. When all the work was done we all met up at the restaurant Ban Kantiang for dinner.

After dinner it was time to celebrate the new year. Why Not Bar and Aqua Bar always has big parties at the beach. It's almost like a festival, walking around meeting up with people and everyone having a great time. Even the other company Raya divers came down to Kantiang Bay to celebrate. The fireworks was really huge and colorful.

It was also nicely different from home, where you freeze in a large winter jacket, whereas here I wore only shorts and a shirt, not freezing all. When the hours began to get late we decided to head up to Freedom Bar and end the evening there. Thanks to everyone who made the start of 2018 awesome.

The boat is still full everyday and work is still good. Koh Haa is finally getting the visibility back from the bad weather we had here last month. Been having goosebumps the last few days. When diving with more than 20 meters of visibility it's hard to have a boring time. It's like diving in a big aquarium and it's hard to miss things as octopus, turtles and other cool fishes.

In one week my brother will arrive in Koh Lanta, it’ll be fun. He will become a certified diver and live with me for almost a month. I need to buy him a mattress. I was thinking that it would be nice to sleep in the same bed with him for maybe two days. After that it’ll get a little annoying. Will see how fun he thinks it is. Maybe he stays here and becomes a Divemaster.

Photographs from our lovely photographer Lucy Pearsson