Blue Season Bali

I was guiding today. We were going to dive one of my favourite dive sites in Bali, Padang Bai. Having just been out there in less than a week ago, I was hoping today would be better conditions.

And indeed, the sun rays peeked out of the cloudy sky and by 0900hrs the sky cleared into a calm blue. After setting up our dive gear, my guest Yousef (Kuwait) and I set off on a small dive expedition on a jukung. The sea was literally quite flat, and it was Tanjung Bungsil we were headed for.

At Tanjung Bungsil, surface conditions were perfect. Looking over the jukung, crystal clear visibility was staring at us in the face. We were revved up to descend, and down we went… bloop bloop bloop…

Schools of wrasses and a giant puffer fish was hovering in a nice bommy with a tiny swim-through… As sunlight hit the sea floor my vision expanded and I spotted two really pretty Chromodoris magnifica nudibranchs. Love nudibranchs! And then almost all the creatures I mentioned in my dive briefing were spotted: Giant cuttlefish, blue-spotted stingray, more nudibranchs, spotted boxfish, etc… BEAUTIFUL CORALS, BEAUTIFUL REEF LIFE!

Second dive after our surface interval was at Blue Lagoon. This dive we were going to dive the wall. As the mild current pushed us towards Kepala Penyu and Jepun, it was ultra cold with the thermoclines rushing into our faces. AARGH! Nevertheless, great great dive! Another giant cuttlefish, a snake eel, cleaner shrimp (huge ones), a school of juvenile barracudas, more nudibranchs, another blue-spotted stingray, etc… BEAUTIFUL dive again…

What could be better to end the diving day than a fantastic lunch at Puri Rai restaurant? The fish sate there is excellent, so I recommended it to Yousef. I myself had the tasty chicken curry… It was heavenly YUMMY!

Great day, great Bali diving, great guest…