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.: PADANGBAI
The called Amuk bay, with the villages of Padang Bai in the south and Candi Dasa in the north, is about 6 kilometers across and located along the south side of Bali's eastern point. Close to Candi Dasa there are 2 larger islands, Tepekong and Biaha, as well as an area with small rocks called Mimpang or Batu Tiga. The diving in this area is astonishingly rich. If you are interested in special small critters you should be diving around Padang Bai. |
.: WHITE SANDY BEACH (BIAS TUGAL)
Lies south of Padang Bai. This is a steep slope nicely covered with corals and sponges. Look at the outside of the large barrel sponges for lobster and on the Muricella gorgonians for pygmy seahorses.
.: PADANGBAI CHANEL
Lies about 100 meters from the shore in the area where the ferries leave for Lombok when they cross overhead during a dive, it can be very noisy here indeed. You go down deep on the wall and make a drift dive. Look underneath the overhangs for sharks, large black rays and turtles and enjoy the schools of batfish or small barracudas. In August to September there are often Wobbegong sharks and Mola Mola. The shallow area where you finish your dive is also very nice with dark sand and coral boulders. There seems to be quite a collection of nudibranchs living here as well as moray eels, ribbon eels and even some well hidden devil fishes.
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.: BLUE LAGOON
The Blue Lagoon is actually a small bay, with a steep white sand beach, located just a tiny bit next of Padangbai. The steepness of the beach means there are waves. 15 minute with jukung (outrigger) ride from Padang Bai or Balina Village. The topography is not spectacular: white sand bottom, which slopes gradually to 22 meter has scattered rocks, soft corals and a huge area of Staghorn Coral. However the fish life is amazing! There is a large Napoleon Wrasse that lives here, several kinds of unusual reef shark, stonefish, moray and blue ribbon eels, nudibranches, rays, squid and octopus, Leaf Scorpion fish in every hue, Stargazers. |
While The Blue Lagoon is easy diving, sometimes used for Open Water Courses and popular with snorkellers, experienced divers and photographers also thoroughly enjoy the site. Visibility is 15-20 meters, there is sometimes a little surge and a mild current, but the bay is fairly protected. The site has a good variety of Sweet lips, Angelfish, Surgeonfish.
.: SMALL TEMPLE
This site just next site from Blue Lagoon, they offer similar, here is more better for snorkeller. We make the dive trips always one dive at Blue Lagoon and then socond dive at Small temple, so one trip two dive site.
.: NIGHT DIVE
Blue Lagoon and Small Temple are excellent. The dive site offers three different zones for diving - the sandy slope, the wall and the large coral blocks - each with distinctive animals living there. For example the slope and wall are covered with filter feeders like feather stars, brittle stars and basket stars and there are always crabs and shrimps crawling among them. Nudibranchs like Spanish dancers and some scorpionfishes are found on the sandy area and the coral blocks seem to attract a lot of animals as well. Apart from the sleeping angelfishes there are also lobsters and cleaning shrimps. The leaffishes you tend to see during the day are hidden, but you will see other predators - several black giant frogfishes. the shy nocturnal spotfin frogfish, a small species that is nearly never found during the day.
with a lot of crabs and shrimps, flatworms, Spanish dancers, rare nudibranchs, snake eels and if you are lucky a bamboo shark. You dive either at Blue Lagoon or White Beach.
HIGH LIGHTED
Cuttlefish, a lot of anemoan, Leaffishes, frog fish, turtle, Crocodile fish at The Blue Lagoon
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