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Due to a last minute cancellation we are offering a SCREAMING deal on this trip.
Dive Damai II Boutique Liveaboard
November 20 - December 3, 2011
Please call for details:
503-208-7500
800-794-9767
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Sample Itinerary:
Fly to Flores. Arrival in Laboan Bajo to board Dive Damai II. Dive Tatawa Besar: a Komodo classic, covered with orange soft corals, schooling bat fish, a beautiful shallow hard coral garden. Night dive in Sabolan. Look for the star gazers.
Tatawa Kecil has different undersea topography than most of the Park and offers a great chance to spot mantas. Batu Balong is a small island in the middle of an area swathed by current that attracts plenty of sharks and offers excellent visibility. The drift in Tatawa Besar is a Komodo classic. The site is covered with orange soft corals, schooling batfish and a beautiful shallow hard coral garden.
Horseshoe Bay in Rinca, the home to the famous Cannibal Rock, Yellow Wall and Torpedo Alley.
Waters will be colder than before and the visibility not as god as the northern sites, but there is such an abundance of all kinds of life that divers are too busy looking at the reef to care. All types of critters can be spotted here including giant frogfish and rhinopias, unique nudies and a blue ringed octopi.
Yellow Wall, as its name indicates, is covered with yellow soft corals. The super-macro lady bugs, sea apples, fire urchins with coleman shrimp and zebra crab are particularly easy to spot on this site.
Torpedo Alley is another of the legendary night dives in Indonesia, apart from the rays there are frogfish, sea pens, numerous crabs and bobbitt worms.
Langkoi: Mantas, mantas and mantas and sometimes Mola-Molaa as well. We will have many opportunities to cavort with mantas here.
Gili Lawa Laut and Gilli Lawa Darat: This has the biggest concentration of life in Komodo. Schools of surgeonfish, barracudas, jacks, passing sharks, sweetlips, Napoleon wrasse and turtles are common. Lately we have had dolphins fishing right in front of us. Unbelievable diving!
Sangeang: The Volcanic slopes give way to a black sand bottom. At Bubble Reef one can experience the sensation of warm gases percolating through the sand. The mixture of coral reef and black sand is fascinating and the search is on for leaf fish, blue and juvenile ribbon eels and big schools of snappers.The dive site black magic offers large black coral bushes in the sand and a chance to see ornate ghost pipefish and tozeuma shrimps. Both night dives, either here or in Bontho are fantastic. One almost sure bet is seeing the wonderfully photogenic boxer crab.
Banta: We will be targeting one of the most beautiful reefs in Indonesia: ‘GPS’ Expect good, manageable currents that bring in pelagic action.
We can see grey reef sharks, barracudas, green and hawksbill turtles and the rare oceanic trigger fish. On the northwest corner of Banta is Stairway to Heaven. A very healthy wall full of varied action. Mantas may pass by. K2 and Star Wars are great alternatives and somewhat less demanding. They offer have great reefs with minimal current and big cuttlefish, leaf fish, Pegasus sea moths and green turtles.
Bima Bay: Some of the best muck diving in this part of the world: “Wonderpuss” and mimics, ambon scorpion fish, harlequin ghost pipe fish, soft coral crabs.. GREAT WAY TO FINISH THE TRIP!!
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Dive Damai II Boutique Liveaboard
November 20 - December 3, 2011
Please call for details:
503-208-7500
800-794-9767
----------------------
Sample Itinerary:
Fly to Flores. Arrival in Laboan Bajo to board Dive Damai II. Dive Tatawa Besar: a Komodo classic, covered with orange soft corals, schooling bat fish, a beautiful shallow hard coral garden. Night dive in Sabolan. Look for the star gazers.
Tatawa Kecil has different undersea topography than most of the Park and offers a great chance to spot mantas. Batu Balong is a small island in the middle of an area swathed by current that attracts plenty of sharks and offers excellent visibility. The drift in Tatawa Besar is a Komodo classic. The site is covered with orange soft corals, schooling batfish and a beautiful shallow hard coral garden.
Horseshoe Bay in Rinca, the home to the famous Cannibal Rock, Yellow Wall and Torpedo Alley.
Waters will be colder than before and the visibility not as god as the northern sites, but there is such an abundance of all kinds of life that divers are too busy looking at the reef to care. All types of critters can be spotted here including giant frogfish and rhinopias, unique nudies and a blue ringed octopi.
Yellow Wall, as its name indicates, is covered with yellow soft corals. The super-macro lady bugs, sea apples, fire urchins with coleman shrimp and zebra crab are particularly easy to spot on this site.
Torpedo Alley is another of the legendary night dives in Indonesia, apart from the rays there are frogfish, sea pens, numerous crabs and bobbitt worms.
Langkoi: Mantas, mantas and mantas and sometimes Mola-Molaa as well. We will have many opportunities to cavort with mantas here.
Gili Lawa Laut and Gilli Lawa Darat: This has the biggest concentration of life in Komodo. Schools of surgeonfish, barracudas, jacks, passing sharks, sweetlips, Napoleon wrasse and turtles are common. Lately we have had dolphins fishing right in front of us. Unbelievable diving!
Sangeang: The Volcanic slopes give way to a black sand bottom. At Bubble Reef one can experience the sensation of warm gases percolating through the sand. The mixture of coral reef and black sand is fascinating and the search is on for leaf fish, blue and juvenile ribbon eels and big schools of snappers.The dive site black magic offers large black coral bushes in the sand and a chance to see ornate ghost pipefish and tozeuma shrimps. Both night dives, either here or in Bontho are fantastic. One almost sure bet is seeing the wonderfully photogenic boxer crab.
Banta: We will be targeting one of the most beautiful reefs in Indonesia: ‘GPS’ Expect good, manageable currents that bring in pelagic action.
We can see grey reef sharks, barracudas, green and hawksbill turtles and the rare oceanic trigger fish. On the northwest corner of Banta is Stairway to Heaven. A very healthy wall full of varied action. Mantas may pass by. K2 and Star Wars are great alternatives and somewhat less demanding. They offer have great reefs with minimal current and big cuttlefish, leaf fish, Pegasus sea moths and green turtles.
Bima Bay: Some of the best muck diving in this part of the world: “Wonderpuss” and mimics, ambon scorpion fish, harlequin ghost pipe fish, soft coral crabs.. GREAT WAY TO FINISH THE TRIP!!
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