I was having trouble finding out if there was any major difference between visiting maya bay in the morning or in the evening. The climbing tour we'd like to go with recommends climbing in the morning and doing the boat tour to maya bay in the evening, but everything I have read says to do maya bay as early as possible in the morning. The low tide the day we're going is at 3:48 AM, so I don't think we'll have any trouble with the tide, and we wanted to leave at like 6:30 or 7:00.

From pictures it looks like the only difference is that in the morning the sun is shining on the rocks at the opening of the bay, and in the evening everything is a bit dark. Since I know I'm not going to get a perfect photo or anything because it's high season, I'm not really too concerned about lighting. That just seemed to be the only difference.

Does anyone know if it will be much more crowded at sunset?