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Surin Islands
Surin Islands marine national park
is about
two hundred kilometers north of Phuket in the emerald water of the Andaman
Sea, near the Myanmar-Burmese border.
The Surin Islands archipelago consists of 5 islands, two
big, 3 small. On Ko Surin Nuea -this is the biggest island- are some National
Park accomodations and at Ko Surin Tai is a small gypsy village
The whole
Surin Islands National Park covers a area of about 135 square kilometer. The two bigger Surin
Island are separated by a 200 m waterway. The Surin Islands are about 60 km
offshore.
Mu Ko Surin National Park - the official
name - is a fantastic crossover from tropical forest and coral reefs.
The area shows a rich biodiversity that ranges
from the largest sea creature on earth,
the Whale Shark, to rare birds such as the
Beach Thick-Knee and the Nicobar Pigeon. Mammals such as the Malayan Flying
Lemur can also be discovered.
The Surin Islands Thailand have been declared a national park in 1981 to make sure not to have the usual encroaching and souvenirs
shops everywhere. Its a clean, pristine environment full of beauty above
and under the water surface.
The Surin Islands, Ko Surin, Thailand, are accessible either by boat tours (live
aboard) mainly out of
Phuket or by speedboats and normal ship from the opposite
cost at Khura Buri pier very easy to reach via coastal highway No. 4.
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The boats / ships to Surin Islands leave every day
at 9 am, check the Surin Island National Park headquarter - just along the pier
- for the ship - boat.
The fare for the normal ship - 2 hours - is baht
1200,- the speedboat is 1600,- .
You can book accommodation here: + info
076 491378
076 491582
The whole Surin Islands archipelago offers a excellent snorkeling
and diving environment. If you are out for scuba diving book a
live aboard tour in
Phuket. The Surin Islands are somehow similar to
Similan Islands Thailand are a prime area for scuba diving. If you are interested
on a scuba diving tour go to a
bigger travel agent in Phuket and book a Surin Island diving tour.
The beaches on north Surin Islands are rather small
but many very scenic bays compensate this. You also can go camping on the Surin
Islands.
If you go on your own, to the Surin Islands pier -
Surin Islands and stay in the Bungalows - very basic - you can only
snorkel. The Surin Island park headquarter at the islands has snorkeling gear
for rent but no scuba gear. If you want a scuba dive trip contact one of the
local dive operators. The most interesting scuba diving site is a around
Richelieu rock. This site on Surin Islands is one of the top diving sites on
this planet.
You can also hire a long tail boat at Surin Islands
headquarter and move around. At the Surin Islands park headquarter and
restaurant and bathrooms are available, also for campers.
Some nature trails starting at the Surin Islands
park headquarter give a little challenge to test your fitness.
The south Surin Island has a couple of nice beaches
/ bays, notably Ao Suthep and Ao Pak Kaad - Ao stands for bay -.
At north Surin Island, Ao Sai Ane and on south
Surin Island at Ao Born a small group of Morgan Sea Gypsies has settled, still
practicing their daily life like ages ago.
Ko Surin also check water
sports.
TSUNAMI DISASTER on Surin
Island:
Scuba divers clung to rocks as
`the sea turned into
Adrian
Kaye, 29, a British scuba diving
instructor in the Surin Islands off
the coast of Thailand, helped a
group of 14 divers hang on to rocks
under the sea as the tsunami passed
over their heads. He had been
filming the group, which included
three deaf people and one man paralysed from the waist down, at a
dive called Richelieu Rock off the
Surin Islands in the Indian Ocean.
"It was
the scariest thing I have ever
experienced. My life flashed before
my eyes. We had been under the water
for a while and the conditions were
perfect when the fish went crazy.
They must have sensed it was coming
and were swimming in all directions.
Then it all went dark suddenly and
that's when it hit us. The sea
turned into a washing machine. We
were being thrown around and it was
pitch black. I didn't know what was
happening. I just knew that we had
to grab on to some rocks or the
group were going to be swept away.
"People's hands were getting cut and
they were slipping off the rocks so
the only thing I could think of was
to hold on to each other, which we
did, and we survived. We were
trying to cling on to the rocks but
we got torn off them and smashed
against other rocks.
We were being sucked up towards
the surface, which is very
dangerous while you are diving. It
was terrible.
"I tried
to rock-climb down to find some of
the others. I found Naomi, who is
deaf, and the guy who was paralysed
from the waist down. We tried to
climb together but we couldn't. So
we just tried to cling to each
other. Eventually we managed to get
to the surface and get to the boat.
They all got on the boat, headed to
shore and just sat it out in the
ocean overnight because they were
worried about aftershocks."
Sea gypsies at Surin Archipelago
THAI "SEA gypsies" living on Surin Island have
developed extraordinarily acute underwater vision, research has revealed.
Ethnic Moken children were found to be able to see twice as well underwater as
the children of European tourists, who were given similar tests at three coral
island resorts nearby.
A team of biologists and opthamologists from Sweden's Lund University compared
groups of
youngsters,
aged between seven and 14, to learn how the Moken youngsters can spot tiny
shells, clams and sea cucumbers four metres beneath the surface of the
crystal-clear Andaman Sea without resorting to goggles.
Ordinarily, human eyesight becomes blurry under water because the eye is
structured to see through air. But the Moken nomads, who tie stones to their
waists so they submerge long enough to forage for seafood, can constrict their
pupils to pin-prick size and spot pearls measuring only 1.5mm in diameter. They
also squint in order to squeeze the lenses of their eyes, which temporarily
thickens them and improves focus under water.
"They use the optics of the eye to the limits of what is humanly possible," said
Anna Gislen, a Swedish biologist who led the study. At best, the sharpest-eyed
children could distinguish objects that measured 3mm across.
Young smokelers volunteered to toss aside their masks and be tested at the
tourist islands of Ko Samui, Ko Phi Phi and Ko Poda. None of them could
constrict their pupils at will, as the Moken did routinely on every dive.
The Swedes speculated that the Moken sea gypsies must learn these skills,
although after generations of scavenging the sea floor, "the ability to see well
underwater could have become a genetic trait."
An estimated 5,000 Moken nomads roam the archipelago between western Thailand
and Burma on bamboo houseboats, gathering edible sea slugs and fish while
competing with crab-eating macaques for delicacies in tidal pools.
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