Bali Snorkeling

Last visited December 2012 Last updated April 2014 Outlook from the main eastern beach on Ngai is pretty sweet – small karst islands in foreground, Ko Muk middle background, Ko Libong far right background and mainland far far background. This is all reflected light at sunset – camera is pointing east away from the sun. This shot will probably look pretty nice if you click-expand. After too long I finally got back to Ko Ngai in April 2012 and then took Lady Tezza there in December 2012. Things had certainly changed with several new resorts - and some older ones shifting position.  However it remains one of the more relaxed islands in the Andaman with an attractive main beach, reasonable snorkelling and an outlook to some pretty scenic landscape/seascape. It is small, hilly, rain-forested, has some walking tracks but no roads except for a mid-island one associated with a farm. There is no village. Ngai is one of the Trang Islands and is about 15km southeast of Koh Lanta and less than...

FEB 08 - 3 DAY SNORKELLING TRIP TO THE SIMILAN ISLANDS Back-bay and beach at Similan Island #4 - some opportunities for beach time and short treks on Poseidon's Similan Islands snorkelling trip. I finally got my wish and did the 3 day-2night live-aboard snorkelling trip to the Similans put on by Poseidon Bangalows out of Khao Lak in late January. I found it one of the best live aboard trips I’ve done and highly recommend it to not only to people who like snorkelling some pretty good reefs and checking excellent marine-life, but others who simply like chugging around on a comfortable slow-boat thru a series of scenic islands (the Similans are a string of 9 hilly forest clad islands about 70km off the Andaman coast and roughly the same distance north of Phuket’s northern end). I intend to do a newspaper submission when I get the time, so I’ll just give a summary in point form for the time being: * We snorkelled over a dozen locations at 6 islands, got several hours beach time on 2 go...