Located on the south-east side of Similan Island number 6, East of Eden is in many people’s eyes, the best reef in the whole of Similan Islands. This site is dominated by a large coral bommie, which is one of the moat beautiful sights that I’ve ever seen anywhere in the world. To get some idea of the beauty of this bommie, a team from National Geographic spent an entire week diving and filming this bommie to make a 1 hour documentary about it.

The bommie starts at about 11-12meters and descends down to just over 20m, and is covered in colourful vibrant soft branch corals, sea fans and anemones. Several pairs of, butterfly fish, angelfish and Moorish idols call this bommie home, while giant and white eyed morays can often be seen lurking in the cracks and crevasses. Bluefin trevally dart in and out of schools of glassfish, while coral groupers watch, waiting for an easy meal. The rare frogfish can also be seen by keen eyed divers.

Around the bommie, areas fringing reef and large sandy patches dominant the underwater landscape. Large table corals and staghorn corals cover the sand bottom, with trigger fish, boxfish and damsel fish in large numbers surrounding them.

The sandy patches are a great place to view spotted garden eels, gobies, and khul’s sting rays. This site is also frequently visited by Green and Hawksbill turtles .
All in all, this is a wondrous dive site, and a must for every liveaboard trips.

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