Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Interesting Places to Dive in Bali

Ever hear about Bali Island?. It’s located in Indonesia, and it calls as Heaven Island, because of it’s unique and beautiful panorama. If you don’t know about Bali, please watch newest Julia Robert movie with the title “ Eat, Pray, Love”, because almost half of the film taken place in Bali.

If you like dive, there’s many natural and interesting places to dive. You can see many sea species here, some of them I presented below:

 

1. Nusa Penida Island


Our first journey, let’s go to Nusa Penida, Manta Point, south east of Bali.. You can find there beautiful corals, and many fishes, including cool fish, Sunfish (Mola mola).

Mola-mola(sunfish):



After you dive deeper, you can meet MantaRay, which able to fly high to the air. Remember with the Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo Movie?. Wire Coral is there too.

MantaRay, Reef, Wire Coral:




2. Tapekong, Biaha and Mimpang Island


Then, visit three small island Tepekong, Biaha and Mimpang, there you can find Mola-mola, and the numbers of  nudibranch in Shark cave. Don’t dive too long here. It’s dangerous!.

Mola-mola:

Spoiler for CuttleFish:

Shark Cave:


Nudibranch



 

3. Padang Bai

The next stop is Padang Bai. there you can find diving accessories, which a heaven place for diver. You can find some species here…

 flutemouth, Seahorse, Mantis Shrimp Eye:



Yellow BoxFish, Nudibranch(again), Catfish:



 

4. Amed


Next Amed, Bali. This is an interesting place too, as if you can’t leave it, because it’s very great for diver, especially in Japanese Fishing Wreck. Here’s sunrise in Amed.

Sand Diver:

Sand Diver boy try to seduce it’s girl

glassfish and seahorse pygmi:

glassfish schooling  and seahorse pygmi .


 

Next, to Tulamben , where you can find many diving heaven there, some of them:


5. Liberty wreck


Liberty wreck- is a place where US Liberty sinking there. It’s heaven for coral and fishes.

 Baracuda + Jackfish:


Barracuda inside the Liberty wreck

Jack Fish / schooling Fish.


 parrot fish, Napolean wrasse and dogtooth tuna:



Schooling bumphead parrotfish



Napolean wrasse and dogtooth tuna, in the morning

 

6. Kubu


Kubu - excellent fish & corals, great deep and shallow

Ribbon eel, Baby lionfish, Red anemone fish:



 

7. Seraya


Seraya – is interesting too

Batfish, wrasses, Blue-spotted goby:

Blue-spotted goby

 Wire coral goby, Juvenile emporer angelfish, Mimic filefish:



 army shrimp, tiger shrimp:


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