Kled Gaeow Wreck and Maya Corner and a Wedding

March 9
Off I went for another two dives with the same group form yesterday..... was disappointed when I found out we were not diving Shark Point due to the wind and ocean conditions. Instead, we dove two different sites.

Meet Lou... she was our dive master. A very entertaining and lovely lady. In her 27 years of life, she has worked in the Maldives, Sri Lanka, and now Thailand as a dive master. She is originally for Hong Kong.

This was our boat for the morning

Kled Gaeow Wreck is a gunship 47 m of length, resting on the sandy bottom in front of the Viking Cave. The depth on the bottom reaches 26 m and the top of the wheelhouse is 14 m under the sea surface. The wreck is surrounded by huge schools of big fish. We saw schools of small Barracudas, Stone Fish, and Lion Fish. I was very excited to dive this site as this was my very first wreck dive. We didn't go inside, just explored around it.

Our second site was Maya Corner, a title past Maya Bay. Maya Bay Maya Bay has become the main tourist attraction of Phi Phi since The Beach was filmed here in 1999 starring Leonardo Decaprio. We went into the bay for lunch but didn't go to Maya beach as there is a 400 baht ($16) charge.
Instead we stopped at a little beach directly across from there.

Maya Bay, just jam packed with boats and tourists

Our little bay....lunch stop

Diving Maya Corner
A cute turtle

I was also lucky to watch a wedding. It's a traditional wedding for the Sea Gypsy village. The groom and his family walks down the beach, bearing gifts, with lots of singing and drumming.

They arrive at the wedding site
The bride and groom meet and watch the grooms family present gifts to the brides family.

Gold and money are given to the brides family.