Another successful Whale watching trip From Bali to Maumere through Komodo National park. The Wind has dropped leaving the sea nice n’ flat most of the days with perfect clear condition to Whale watch! A large group of Fruit bats appeared in the skies as the sun settled over Satonda Island, a magical spot where […]
Komodo isn’t only a wonderful diving destination, it isn’t all about the World’s largest lizards either. This place actually has something very special, quite large, that not many people expect to find around here. The past 10 days, Mermaid1 has gone to a very different journey to Komodo. And it was a successful search of
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Currents are so much fun and I am here to tell you why diving into it is such a wicked experience. It’s always a very exciting dive when we get to be amongst large schools of fish and other big stuff. And one of the main reasons that brings all the fish action together is
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An outstanding trip back to Komodo covered with rare and majestic marine life! Reef slopes and walls combined with thousand of Anthias filling the blue background! That’sprobably one of the post cards of Komodo. Pretty blue, sharks, fish schooling, eagle rays and more big stuff! Most of the dive sites up in the north of
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Another trip with beautiful conditions – clear blue water and just enough current to bring all the good stuff in! The seamounts in North Komodo were packed with fish, and we found ourselves totally embedded in Surgeonfish, Snappers and Fusilliers while the predators, such as Giant Trevallies and Whitetip Reef Sharks, circled us, waiting for
Highlight this trip’s gotta be the Mantas in the south of the Komodo National Park. Famous for its cleaning stations, with any luck you’ll see these majestic rays lining up to get fixed by hundreds of cleaner fish. With good conditions we fully enjoyed the show, particularly when the Mantas moved in with their mouths
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Although we see Manta Rays on pretty much all Bali – Komodo trips, on some they’re just everywhere. Starting already the first dive in the Komodo National Park, we spent our safety stop watching one of these beautiful creatures circling a cleaning station for a morning fix. More interested in the facility than us, we
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We had an absolutey wonderful day at Sangeang Volcano this trip! Blue blue water, stunning corals and full of interesting critters of all sizes. Most famous dive here is Hot Rocks, where you have very obvious signs of the volcano not being quite dead yet – bubble fields in the shallows and really hot rocks
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This time of the year it’s mating season for the famous Komodo Dragons, and they typically disappear up in the mountains for a month or two making it difficult to find any. We got really lucky though, as we managed to encounter a whole bunch of them. Seven to be more precise! With, in all
We had some cracking dives in the Komodo National Park this trip! At Castle Rock, a seamount in the north, we were diving in a virtual fishsoup – Giant Trevallies, Surgeonfish, Snappers and Batfish in great numbers, as well as Whitetip and Grey Reef Sharks patrolling the deeper parts. Batu Bolong, another famous dive, delivered
