Mola Mola and NO CAMERA!! AHHHHGGGGHHHHH!
Well I’ve been waiting to see my first mola mola and yesterday I was finally rewarded with one. The conditions were great the water wasn’t very very cold probably right around 24° at Crystal Bay on the first dive I got to see a shadow of a mola mola which was in the deeper water and then as the diver I had with me was low on air or we had to start heading back towards the boat. On the way back we got to see a flame angel fish which are always a favorite of mine. They are called flame angel fish because the middle of the fish is reddish orange and then it’s surrounded on the fringe by blue so it looks like a flame hense the name.
On the second dive as soon as we got out towards the canyon which is the reference point for you to start looking for the mola mola’s one of our very experience Indonesia dive instructors started rapping on his tank to let us know that there was something there, sure enough just a little bit deeper than we were was a mola mola being cleaned by some schooling banner butterfly fish and it was amazing as the sunfish made the butterfly fish look as if we were far away because of the enormity of the sunfish. When we got back on the boat the Indonesian dive instructor let us know that it really wasn’t even a very big one only around 2 m which only makes me want to go on Mola Mola dives in Balimore often so that I can go and see a really big one. As I understand it we can anticipate seeing many more mola mola’s as we are now in the mola mola season so sightings of the sunfish in Bali should be regular occurrences on the dives until the end of September. You know I remembered everything about that dive the only thing I forgot was a camera so really my first one doesn’t count as I don’t have proof I quess I will just need to get back out there and do it again!
Yesterday also was the end of the IDC and Blue Season Bali had the most instructor candidates in the IE and all of them passed so the 100% pass ratio for Blue Season Bali is still intact. The next IDC will be in September and I can’t wait to work with Chong as I will be a student learning to be a IDC staff instructor. So now that I have seen a mola mola the last thing I have that I really want to see scuba diving is a whale shark who knows maybe one will be sitting at Manta point watching a manta getting cleaned and have one bump into me while I’m in the water, or maybe I’ll be on a mola mola dive and a whale shark will come cruising through!