Donald Duck Bay Diving in Koh Similan

Reef

This picturesque bay, with it's beautiful white beach backed by rock formations and dense vegetation, is a popular anchorage for live-aboards. The site is known by several names including Shoe Bay (Ao Guak in Thai), or Campbell's Bay, and the eastern side of the bay (The Boulders) is the most favoured. Although not always regarded as a prime site, it is still very popular. Moorish idols, coral sea snakes, big groupers, zebra and lionfish, triggerfish, parrotfish, sweetlips, snappers, rabbitfish and butterflyfish shelter in the many canyons, arches and caves. Also to be observed are juvenile barracuda, anemonefish, and wrasse. Some of the coral has unfortunately been damaged, but there are expanses of hard coral and coral heads on the ridge and seabed, with sea fans on the boulders and caves. Depths 8 - 24m. Visibility 18 - 24m. Easy dive. Good snorkeling. Night dives are popular.
A preserved intact skeleton of a sperm whale is on show at the nearby ranger station. There are also interesting features if you venture very slightly beyond the Boulders in a northeasterly direction..