The boat started moving and I am wide awake now at 5:30 going for coffee upstairs, dictating my first remembrances on a moving boat with the wind coming at me and hoping I’ll be able to correct all mistaken dictations, completely contorted by the noise of the engine and the wind. It feels so good to get up early as I always did when I had customers on board. Being the first one up I’m able to greet people individually in the galley as they come up the stairs.
It is such a good feeling to be up and ready and waiting for a job I don’t have to do. This is really the first time I’ve been a customer on a dive boat. Comfortable but now i realize there is something about having worked on a boat that never leaves you, the need to always be looking out for something or someone or some situation.
The dives were good, they say, but getting back on the boat today was challenging. Everyone is fine though a few close calls.
The wind is getting stronger so the waves will make boarding the boat more problematic. So the captain just told me the plan is to back to closer islands that provide better shelter around Phi Phi islands. This is a difficult time of year to be diving in the Andaman sea since the monsoon winds are already strong. Strong winds equals big waves.
I woke up at six as usual, went upstairs for cups of coffee and then decided to go for a swim. It was still not very light since Maya bay is on the opposite side of the sunrise. I was thinking about going close to the sailboat attend decided since it was quite late and I didn’t see any people up on deck it was probably not a good idea since they might sink I was attempting to orthopod and steal something. You never know.
The first time was at Koh Bida Nok. The waves were not too high so this should be a fairly easy return to the boat.
The wind is getting stronger, should be up to 25 knots later and up to 30 tomorrow with rain.
The second dive is at Koh Bida Nai.