I was trying to play up the suitability of Bali for "older" divers with that post. I'm in my mid fifties and I' used to going to Utila Honduras where I'm the old guy, the guy who's hoping that his wetsuit is working like a corrective garment, like spanx, if you will and doing the trick of holding my slowly expanding gut in.
I went with Adventure Divers in Amed, based on their Trip Advisor reviews and I stayed with them as well. I was kind of nervous about it considering that was the first time I'd ever booked/committed to any operation without having been on the property first. I wasn't disappointed, to say the least.
Three divers was a large group and quite often in was one on one seeing as how it was low season and the DMs are on salary. A nice change from Utila where it's more about the group with a DM who's more focused on wrangling the newly certified divers who are still enthralled with the idea of "flying under water" and looking to see the green moray.
On Bali, if I found something, even if it was something mundane like a juvenile white spotted wrasse, the DMs were patient and waited for me to finish checking out this find of mine. Yea, I'm into bicolor dartfish too.
So now it's Bali until I die. I'd like to check out some more of these Indonesian hot spots but I've got ear problems. I've perforated my left ear drum 4 times, including my last trip to Bali ( 46 dives in 30 days ) and I'm a little hesitant to push it in Komodo or Raja Ampat because as soon as that perforation happens I'm out of the water even with a Pro Ear mask. It doesn't happen every dive trip but over the years it's happened enough times to make me nervous.
I'd say Amed was at least 50% over 50 with an even higher percentage in Tulamben, at least from what I could see when I visited the resorts on the surface interval.
