Koh Lanta - Blue Planet Divers: Children of the Forest Snorkeling Trip

Koh Lanta - Blue Planet Divers: Children of the Forest Snorkeling Trip: On Friday we were very pleased to have the Charity, " Children of the Forest ," on our boat for a snorkeling trip to Koh Haa. Childr...

Children of the Forest Snorkelling Trip

For many years, the Children of the Forest Charity has been able to offer a holiday for the kids here, due to the generosity of the people on this island. Children of the Forest helps Burmese kids who have been displaced into Thailand and have no access to health care or schooling.

This year Blue Planet Divers are hosting the event, but this would not have been possible, without the help of many other organisations on the island: Niall and Christina, 2 guests of Blue Planet, kindly bought toys for the kids.

Big hugs to our friends at Go Dive for their generous donation of toys and providing Thai staff to help.

Lanta Diver are providing Thai Staff, small lifejackets and Losgodis!!!

Hidden Depths gave some lovely toys.

Pier Restaurant gave money for toys. Irish Embassy for the sodas

Royal Lanta provided squash for the kids.

Marissa at Corner Bar, provided some of the food. Baans Bakery, provided some yummy doughnuts.

Somchai also provided food for the kids. Gin and the staff at Layanna Resort for the Ice cream! Big Thanks to Ling Uan Restaurant (Fat Monkey) for the sodas they provided.

And finally big thanks to the Blue Planet Staff, for providing their services for free!

Diving at Koh Haa Caves

Thanks to Ole for this video:

Octopus getting hot and heavy!

Leopard Sharks at Hin Bida

Andaman Freediving Competition 2012

We have just had a really successful Freediving Competiton in Koh Lanta (the only one in Thailand), for more information click here: http://freedivingthailand.blogspot.com/

To see some videos of the event click below:

Congratulations Geddis & Gai

Photo taken by Adam Butler  adam@bigsplashpictures.com

Well Tuesday was the wedding of the century on Koh Lanta, my business partner Gediminas (Geddi) was marrying his beautiful fiance Sukanya (Gai) in a traditional Thai buddhist Thai ceremony in Saladan in the morning and a more Western party in the evening.

As a Western woman, the idea of being ready for your wedding at 9am in the morning is terrifying, but Gai was busy getting her hair and make up done at 6am in the morning, so the Blue Planet Staff decided to give her a warm congratulations as they headed off for a days diving.

Taken by Adam Butler Adam@bigsplashpictures.com

Geddis was presented to his bride behind a procession of Thai dancing girls and Thai drummers dancing through the streets of Saladan. As expected, Gai looked beautiful.

In the afternoon, Gai was carried to the reception at Koala Bar, by 4 burly Blue Planet Staff and presented to Geddis, where they exchanged rings and went through a traditional Lithuanian ceremony with their families.

Many, many congratulations to Geddis and Gai and we hope they have a very happy and very long marriage.

Many thanks to Koala Bar (Todd in particular) for his hard work, Wow for making the bride even more beautiful that she was, Adam, for some incredible photos, Lee for a great video and the whole Blue Planet Team for helping to make their day really special.

Mellisa x