Dennis Bakhuis

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🇹🇭 Anita's Reef

Similan Islands, Phang Nga, Thailand

The gentle one — a sloping hard-coral garden on the sheltered side between Islands 5 and 6, built around a single enormous coral bommie.

Dives here
1
Deepest
20 m
Water
salt
First · last
2013

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Hard coral slopeIsland 6 (Ko Hok)Island 5 (Ko Ha)↓10 m↓20 m↓30 mBig coral bommie↓12 mBommie base, sand↓20 mGap between Islands 5 and 6↓5 mIsland 5 tip↓5 mReef slope↓10 mSand↓20 mGranite boulders↓20 mDeep end↓28 mCoral bommies↓15 mCoral bommies↓15 mCoral bommie↓14 mN50 m
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Site map · 6 objects · max 30 m

Anita's Reef on the sheltered east side of Similan Islands 5 and 6; island outlines from OpenStreetMap (where the names Ko Ha and Ko Hok Noi appear swapped against the dive guides, which put Island 6 (Ko Hok) to the north and Island 5 (Ko Ha) to the south). Contours, bommies and boulders around the two OSM islands; the big bommie, 12 m on top and 20 m at the base, the entry at the south-east edge of Island 6 and the boulders in the deeper south from Similan Diving Tours and Andy's Scuba Diving. The site coordinates (8.57713, 97.64635) are 400 m north of the islands in open water; the origin is moved to the reef east of the islands (8.5717, 97.6465), in line with divezone. Positions are approximate.

Map © divelog-sites contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

Anita's Reef runs from the south-eastern tip of Similan Island 6 around the east side of Island 5 — the sheltered side, which makes it the opposite of the western boulder sites. A gently shelving coral slope, white sand, granite boulders to the south and in the deeper water, little current and excellent visibility.

The centrepiece is a single very large coral bommie standing on the sand, covered in soft coral and absolutely full of fish. It is the standard last-dive-of-the-day site and also the standard first-dive-of-the-trip site, for the same reason: nothing about it is difficult.

Dived 25 November 2013 to 20 m.

Dived here with

Kim

Nearby sites

1 dive at Anita's Reef

  1. 25 Nov 2013 with Kim nightboat date25 Nov 2013 depth20 m time58 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)