FEBRUARY 2010

Marieke & Jolien from the Netherlands completed their Padi open-water course and had a great time. Nemo-fish everywhere, lovely swim-throughs, shrimp fish, lion fish, moray eels and of course sharks and turtles.

SEP-DEC / 2009

The high season is well under way and the diving has been as good as ever. More leopard sharks at Phi Phi Leh this year and the Harlequin ghost pipe fish are around again.

Big thanks to Lian & Debbie, Anouck, Dan & Selina, Bryce, Cecile, Angus & Jen, Anthony, Philip and Dan.

18 / JULY / 2009 

 With the exception of a few days here and there, so far the weather has been really good during this low season and visibility has actually been great also. General tourism is a bit down as it is everywhere in the world, but that also means that its a good time to benefit from reduced hotel prices and less divers!! = more fish!
 This month Christina from the USA completed her dive training that she started in London and was lucky enough to see turtles, leopard sharks, huge trevally as well as hundreds of other stuff, then she was off to see the 'total solar eclipse' in China, just to finish her holiday!

10 / FEB / 2009

 January and February has been great time here in Phi Phi, black-tip reef sharks are everywhere and leopard sharks are gracefully swimming around as always.
 Bill, Chris, Harold, Tinka, Julien and Margaret have all had fantastic diving holidays and we hope to see them in the future. Steve and Colin from Ireland completed their SSI open water course and ended up staying for weeks of diving and partying in Phi Phi and in the end we had to force them to leave.:)
 Harlequin wish al of them the best and hope to see them in the future.
PS- JEN WENT DIVING.......ITS OFFICIAL

15 / NOV / 2008

  Now it is back around to the high / dry season in Phi Phi. Most days have glorious sunshine but sometimes a little rain late afternoon or evenings, but that is nice as it keeps the air temperature down and gives the trees and flowers enough water.
 Sea conditions have been really good and we are now able to operate all of our dive trips including the Hin Daeng trip, of which we made our first trip of the season last week but unfortunately no manta rays or whalesharks this time.
As well as everything else, lots of the harmless black-tip reef sharks have been around on the local marine park trip, which is great to see.
 ****Although there is some reports on the internet about the venomous box jelly fish being spotted in the waters of the Andaman sea, we really do not see it is a time to be concerned as there is hundreds of people diving everyday here and and until now nobody has yet to report any sightings from over 15 dive centers.
 
Hope to see you diving with Harlequin this high season.

24 / SEP / 2008

 Now is that coming to that time of year again where everyone here is looking forward to better sea-conditions and generally better visibility as the high season has almost arrived.
 Recently however there has been lots of whalesharks around as the water has been full of plankton, and luckily this Ukranian family pictured above got to see their first whaleshark whilst on our local marine park trip

JULY 19th 2008

Jacquelyn Turner-Haury from Florida, USA decided to take her Padi Open Water course with Harlequin, and she must be one of the luckiest divers around as she saw a 5-6 meter whale shark on her last training dive of the course. This massive harmless creature was swimming around Jacquelyn and Instructor Daniel for about 15 minutes at Bida Nai on our local marine park trip.
 Some people have done thousands of dives, and still never had such an encounter as this!!
 I guess Jacquelyn can retire from diving now!

JULY 10th 2008
 Now officially into the low season, although its fairly quiet we are still diving everyday, as well as everything else, quite a lot of Octopus have been around of late. Weather was up and down during June but so far its been great in July. We are running the local trip everyday, Kingcruiser trip sometimes and Hin Daeng is officially closed until October.

***Jamie and Tali are now well and truely gone and in the Cook islands and are greatly missed here. Don't know who's gonna find the sea-horses and frog fish now Jamie? lol.
Its been great to see Syl again even though she was just here for a holiday this time around.... Diving, massages and sambucas for four weeks.
Barry is still drinking in Sports Bar............Jen is pretending to work.........Fluke is 3 months pregnant........Darkie has gone mad....

16 / MARCH / 2008

Victoria and Arka from the Ukraine completed their Padi Advanced Open Water, also their Padi Enriched Air Nitrox specialty and had the best dive of their life when they went on our Hin Daeng / Hin Muang trip and saw two massive  Manta Rays, and a nine meter Whaleshark.
PS- It was also Jamie 'the seahorse kings' first Whaleshark sighting

21 / JAN / 2008

Newly-weds Mr and Mrs Mark and Majella County preparing to take their confined water training session for the SSI Open Water Course.

16 / JAN / 2008

Lana from Canada just completed her Padi Open Water course and had a great time whilst doing so. As well as turtles and leopard sharks she was epecially impressed with the frogfish and pipefish that have been around recently at the local marine park.

06 / DEC / 2007

Pictures above, Alfredo, Gary and Manual saw Manta Rays for their first time on our recent Hin Daeng / Hin Muang trip. Visibility was about 25 meters and four of the impressive Mantas were sited with Cobias alongside them, as well as schooling Batfish and giant Moray eels to name but a few.

01 / DEC / 2007

The dry / high season weather has definitely kicked-in now. Sea conditions are much better, there has been little rain and visibility has been gradually improving from good to better. The island is fairly busy as it always is at this time of year, and everyone is in the party spirit leading up to xmas and new year.

Pictured above are Sandra and Vanessa whilst gearing-up for the wreck dive as part of their advanced course. Needless to say they had a fantastic time both above and below the water, and Jamie 'the seahorse king' Godson said that they were 'naturals'.

       Good luck with your travels girls, hope to see you next year.

       The Harlequin team.

25 / OCTOBER / 2007

Diving has been great during the low season with plenty of black-tip and leopard sharks as well as everything else, but now it is time for us to look forward to Koh Phi Phi’s high season where sea conditions and general weather patterns are much better from now until May 2008.

Although this last week it has rained fairly often the diving has still been good. ***please note that it cannot rain underwater.

Visiblity on the local trip has been about 12 meters and there has been lots of octopus and sea-horses around of late. Trips to Hin Daeng, Koh Haa and the Kingcruiser wreck should start to be more frequent now, in fact we run our first trip to Hin Daeng a few days ago and although we saw no mantas or whalesharks the visibility was 30+ meters and the dives were stunning.

Good news for you is that this years pricing has remained unchanged    from last season, meaning that you are still getting a much better    deal than in most dive destinations in the world, the only prices    that may increase are the Padi courses, and that’s only if Padi continue to increase their pricing, other than that everything remains the same.

The Harlequin team hope to continue to satisfy many experienced and novice divers alike this coming high season, and we look forward to your arrival.

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