They really take their tides seriously in Koh Tao. The differences between high and low tide is about 2 vertical meters, which here translates to about 50 meters from the high water mark to the low water mark. In other words, a boat that’ll be grounded during low tide that you can walk out to and lean against will, during high tide, be 50 meters from shore and you’ll have to tread water if you swim out to it.
Notice the difference between the shot of almost high tide, where the water is almost hitting the trees (at high tide it does hit the trees) and almost low tide where the muck extends out to the boats (at low tide those boats are in knee deep water). In the low tide photo all of that shiny stuff to the right isn’t water, it’s wet sand. The water is further right.
Quite a difference.
