Kungkungan Bay

pilot fish · Jan 13, 2005

Have any of you guys been there? What is mud diving?

scubashooter · Jan 13, 2005

it's a spa treatment! LOL
It's muck diving. Basically volcanic sand or basic sand with very little coral or topography. Looking for strange critters. It is my FAVORITE place to dive for little stuff and my top 3 favorite place ever!

pilot fish · Jan 13, 2005

scubashooter:
it's a spa treatment! LOL
It's muck diving. Basically volcanic sand or basic sand with very little coral or topography. Looking for strange critters. It is my FAVORITE place to dive for little stuff and my top 3 favorite place ever!

Did you stay at the Kungkungan Bay Resort? You liked the diving there? Mud diving is the absence of a reef or wall and is just an open water dive with volcanic sand on sea floor? Big and small critters but no coral? Vis is good?

Evil · Jan 13, 2005

Dived at Lembeh twice tho we didnt stay at Kungkungan. We stayed at Tasik Ria Resort & made day trips to Lembeh. We love it there tho it's diving with black volcano sand below & even some rubbish around us! Lots of nudis, seahorse, even pygmy seahorse, flamboyant cuttlefish, flying gurnard, weedy scorpionfish & the list goes on....u'll love it if u're into macro. Perfect for uw photography cos there's no current at all.

Zippsy · Jan 13, 2005

I stayed in Kungkungan Bay Resort and loved the place and the service. The diving is easy, close by and it really is called "MUCK" diving. The best things to see there are the weird and wonderful, cockatoo wasp fish, wonderpus, mimic octopus, basketball sized frog fish of every color, porcelain crabs, pipe fish, leaf fish, blue-ringed octopus, 1,000 varieties of nudibranch, lots of species of lion fish, ribbon eels, boiling balls of cat fish, etc., etc., etc., etc. Muck diving means you will be spending more time moving slowly with your face close to the sandy bottom, rather than floating 20 feet off the bottom looking out into the deep for sharks. Viz is usually not so great - maybe 5 to 30 feet - but that's why you get to see all these things up close.

TheNitroxinator · Jan 13, 2005

Have you done Muck diving? I've been to a few top-tier dive sites in the world, Lembeh was my favorite so far, and I have to admit, search and photo muck diving is the most fun as far as I'm concerned. It is mostly diving on coarse black sand at Lembeh, with occasional rocks and coral (Angel's Window excepted, that had a big rock and more coral). You see enough stuff that it doesn't matter; unless you're really big on seeing corals or really down on garbage (there's a lot of fish making homes in garbage there, especially at police pier), you won't be disappointed.

I stayed at KBR; the resort is nice, the diveguides are good, and the longest skiff ride was 15 minutes as I recall, most were about 10 minutes. I expect that I'll definitely return to KBR, although I admittedly want to see some other sites before I start repeating (well, I repeat a lot of So. Cal sites, but that's my home territory).

pilot fish · Jan 14, 2005

Evil:
Dived at Lembeh twice tho we didnt stay at Kungkungan. We stayed at Tasik Ria Resort & made day trips to Lembeh. We love it there tho it's diving with black volcano sand below & even some rubbish around us! Lots of nudis, seahorse, even pygmy seahorse, flamboyant cuttlefish, flying gurnard, weedy scorpionfish & the list goes on....u'll love it if u're into macro. Perfect for uw photography cos there's no current at all.

Rubbish from tsunami?

Glad to hear you liked it. Thinking of a visit there.

pilot fish · Jan 14, 2005

Zippsy:
I stayed in Kungkungan Bay Resort and loved the place and the service. The diving is easy, close by and it really is called "MUCK" diving. The best things to see there are the weird and wonderful, cockatoo wasp fish, wonderpus, mimic octopus, basketball sized frog fish of every color, porcelain crabs, pipe fish, leaf fish, blue-ringed octopus, 1,000 varieties of nudibranch, lots of species of lion fish, ribbon eels, boiling balls of cat fish, etc., etc., etc., etc. Muck diving means you will be spending more time moving slowly with your face close to the sandy bottom, rather than floating 20 feet off the bottom looking out into the deep for sharks. Viz is usually not so great - maybe 5 to 30 feet - but that's why you get to see all these things up close.

MUCK diving? That actually sounds more familiar. Knew it was something like that

Sounds like diving that is very differnt from the Caribe?

pilot fish · Jan 14, 2005

TheNitroxinator:
Have you done Muck diving? I've been to a few top-tier dive sites in the world, Lembeh was my favorite so far, and I have to admit, search and photo muck diving is the most fun as far as I'm concerned. It is mostly diving on coarse black sand at Lembeh, with occasional rocks and coral (Angel's Window excepted, that had a big rock and more coral). You see enough stuff that it doesn't matter; unless you're really big on seeing corals or really down on garbage (there's a lot of fish making homes in garbage there, especially at police pier), you won't be disappointed.

I stayed at KBR; the resort is nice, the diveguides are good, and the longest skiff ride was 15 minutes as I recall, most were about 10 minutes. I expect that I'll definitely return to KBR, although I admittedly want to see some other sites before I start repeating (well, I repeat a lot of So. Cal sites, but that's my home territory).

It's a trek from NY I hear? You have to overnight in Singapore. Nice to hear you liked the resort .

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