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Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Dive Report : Menjangan - Bali Barat : 25 - 26 Feb 2012

Back to Menjangan... :)
but now... with quite different trip, and nuance... quite an experience...

Pak Daniel, Pak Jansen and Pak Santoso were in the boat, we stayed at mimpi, picked up and dropped also at Mimpi Resort, Menjangan.
Reports are as follows....


Mimpi Resort menjangan, docs are just as good as it always be... taking breakfast and lunch at the restaurant were always fabulous and relaxing experience...
white sand, blue skies... quiet place... hot spring... just imagine it yourself.... :D.

Mimpi Resort Bay view... picture taken from restaurant.

Restaurant of Mimpi Resort Menjangan.


























We headed to Menjangan 'dermaga 3' point, north to Menjangan Island,
found a nice sand point for entry, back roll, and drift east following the current.

Pak Jansen, Udah gak miring-miring lagi ya pak ? :).

Pak Daniel... sudah mantap di air... tapi masih jadi penyelam 'katanya' hahahaha...
just between us deh pak Daniel....

Pak Jansen, maskernya 3 ways lho !! :). One of a kind !...
Lobster.... cukup banyak sepanjang penyelaman...

























Leaf Scorpion Fish, Taenianotus Triacanthus.
Between Dermaga 3 and Sand point... The same Leaf Scorpion Fish could be found @ Cristal Bay.








Exercising for Macro Wide Angle photo...
Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch

Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch
The 1st decent picture of me at Cave Menjangan Pos 2 :) after 2 years occasionally visit this cave :).
Thanks to Pak Santoso....













































Dive 3, Bat Cave
Simple dive at Bat Cave and drift west... quite a current, do not have to kick continuously but also easy to stop to take photo.... an easy and nice drift...


exercising for Macro Wide Ange :).




























I just like it :). Could not help to share to you all...
Scorpion Fish on Soft Corral
She mimic the color of soft corral ! :). not a Albino one.
















I Just like the pattern.... :), like a stitches leather work :).








































This is the 1st time I could produce a decent shoot with this fish !
I tapped my shoulder for this picture :), using zoom and about 50 cm distance is quite an effort
to have a good focus and not to disturb this speedy fish...
































Its a nice surprise that we found a crocodile fish just near the end of the dive...... lay still at 6m or so, we could watch and take as many photograph as possible... here are the result !
The same Crocodile Fish (Cymbachephalus beauforti)....
lay still near dermaga 3 Menjangan.



The eyes !!
Crocodile fish (Cymbacephalus beauforti)
or De Baufort's flathead.
Not 5 not 6 but 7 arms Star Fish !! :D.




Happy Anemone Fishes...
exited to be photographed...

A Hand Bucket....















Black spotted Dogfaced Pufferfish
as 'ugly' as it can be :D.
(Arothron nigropunctatus)
Transparent leaves ? :D.





























Day 2, Dive 1 we go to Wreck point (Anchor Point).
There are actually two anchors at Wreck point.
And just under the 1st anchor at 5m or so you could find these Periclemenes brevicarpalis... not to easy to photograph because of the location, but quite a number of them...

1st Anchor at 5m deep @ Wreck point :).
Want to See the 2nd one ? it is at 30m and you can find the picture : klik here...
I think those are Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimps
(Periclemenes brevicarpalis)
Batfish / Spadefish Either Platax Batavianus
(Hump Back Batfish) or Platax Pinnatus 
(because of the orange lining at its tail and head..)
The later is more likely...
















Ardeadoris egretta... considered to be a 'big' nudi branch
size about 12cm when I found it....



Just when we think its going to be a boring dive... Pak Putu our dive guide banging his tank and give us a 'turtle signal'. We look up at 10m and saw this hawksbill turtle cracking corals with his beak..
A Hawksbill Sea Turtle, eating corral... this creature categorized as endangered species...
She disturbed by my presence... sorry mr turtle... I should have been less aggressive next time....
(Eretmochelys imbricata)






























And I found a nice place to photograph Pak Santoso :), an anemone carpet lying at the edge.
A perfect place to take a photo....
Nice photo isn't ? :D. Pak Santoso near carpet anemone...
































Day 2, Dive 2, We dove at one 'unnamed' point that contains quite a number of nudi and other macro animals. The corals were heavily damaged due to fisherman fishing. But we could still found some interesting objects... :). This point is east from Labuhan Lalang and Mimpi Resort Bay entry.
The top of the coral is at 5m ideal for safety stop and then dropped of to 30m or so.
The corrals at 15+ were quite good, but 'dusty' perhaps due to the rubble above... but it's nice to have good and healthy corral at a supposedly crowded fishing spot. Yup there is no big fish could be found around... unlike menjangan..

Comensal Transparent Anemone Shrimp
(Periclimenes Sarasvati)
Transparent Tunicate (Sea Squirt),
found by Pak Santoso...

























Hawkfish... berduaan ni yee....
Falco Hawkfish / Dwarf Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco). Their dorsal fins are awesome :).























Yellow Spotted Pipefish, commonly seen at Pemuteran, I think she is pregnant...
(Corythoichthys polynotatus)







































Black Saddled Toby
(Canthigaster valentini)
Flat Worm


























I Just like it....
The flower from the ocean...

Nembrota Kurbayana... found here at Menjangan ??!!
What a surprise ! :).




This time we also went up to Pura (Temple) inside menjangan. And... took some pictures of the temples and also the deer...
It would be just some hundreds meters walk from Menjangan Pos 2.
I used the surface interval to walk up then back again in 30minutes or so...

Deer at Menjangan island, its called menjangan
because this island is the habitat for 'Deer'
(Javaneese : Menjangan)
Me and the Deer :).




























This is the first time I took picture of a deer and taken picture with deer at the background.
They are quite friendly btw, I could approach them in just 1.5m distance.


Kuil Kwan Im ? Di tempat persembahayangan Hindu ???
hmm.... I need to ask priest's explanation about this...


Bunganya bagus !! hehehe....
Orangnya... lebih bagus lagi hiehiehiehie...
Flower for you....











View from top of the hill to Pos 2 Menjangan....







I hope you all enjoy it... thanks to Pak Putu Swastika and Ketut from Global Dive Pemuteran...
Good luck to you all guys !! We'll be back for Pajamas Cardinal fish huh ?
We had a deal on that already :).


Other Menjangan Trip :
- 11-12 Feb 2012, with pt. Hess
- 2-3 Jul 2011, with A2DC++ :D.


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Thursday, February 16, 2012

Dive Report : Dive Menjangan - Secret Bay 11-12 Feb 2012

To cut the story short :), like always....
dive ini bersama-sama dengan team dari HESS yang sertifikasi sekaligus diving.
Kita melakukan 4 kali dives di Menjangan dan 1 kali di Secret Bay (Night Dive).

Selamat untuk Pak Effendi, Pak Yon (Kaptain), Pak Yohanes dan 'Bu' Ivonne (Phon Phon) :), semoga rajin latihan dan giat berkunjung ke laut :).

Pak Efendi... Pos 2 Cave point...
Pak Satriyo dan Ivonne... Wreck Point... drift !!















Pak Yon (Kapten !) Pos 2





Pak Yohaner, enjoying the drift @ Wreck Point...




Ini foto2 yang didapat di menjangan :), enjoy folks... :).
Sea Horse, baru pertama kali saya ketemu pipe fish ini di Menjangan, Pos 1
Property of Satriyo Mahendrawan

















Pos 1, Property of
Satriyo Mahendrawan
Pygmi sea horse (Hippocampus Denis)
Property of Satriyo Mahendrawan
Sea horse yang sama.... different angle



























Kenapa kok banyak fotonya Pak Satriyo ? hehehe... karena di dive 1 saya tidak bawa kamera dan di dive 2 saya konsentrasi foto temen2 yang diving :).

So... minta ijin ya pak Sat, saya tayangin foto2 bapak disini.... :D.
Pinjam 'mata' bapak untuk share dengan teman-teman yang lain :).

Ternyata Pos 2 Menjangan ada Hiu nya juga ! hehehehe...
2 white tips sharks just west to the cave of Pos 2 look for a slope sand area then look under the corals there....
Update 25 Feb 2012, I only saw 1 shark. see other posting here :
http://rizalchristian.blogspot.com/2012/02/dive-report-menjangan-bali-barat-19-20.html






























The same Pigmy sea horse (Hippocampus Denis) @ Pos 2 Menjangan,
Update 25 Feb 2012, ketika saya coba datangin lagi ternyata udah gak ada :(. udah saya ublek2 sea fan di 14m ini...
Tapi dapet info kalau di 18m ada sea fan yang terdapat Hippocampus Denis seperti ini.







Wreck point, Menjangan (Kapal Budak), Forster's Hawkfish... Pair...
(Paracirrhites Forsteri, other name : Blackside Hawkfish, Freckled Hawkfish).















































'The usual' Transparent Anemone Shrimp
(Periclimenes Sarasvati)

































So... dive 3 setelah makan siang kita lakukan di wreck point (kapal budak).
Ternyata arusnya lumayan 'ok' alias kenceng... alias enak buat latihan drift :).
Saya sempet kuatir temen2 yang baru sertifikasi akan tidak nyaman, ternyata setelah beberapa waktu drift, semua bisa enjoy dan bermain2 dengan arus :)....
Good divers !!


Malam hari, bertiga, saya, P Satriyo dan P Choirul nyempetin mengunjungi Secret Bay untuk nite dive.
Kami sempet tidur di hotel dulu, jam 11 malem dibangunin oleh P Choirul untuk siap2.
Jadi kita sampai di Secret Bay sekitar jam 23 WITA.

Entah kualat atau karena memang niatnya 'gak mau bayar' sama karang taruna disitu, kami gak berhasil menemukan lokasi wreck (perahu terbalik) yang jadi spot idola di Secret Bay.
Namun kami (lagi-lagi) harus kagum dengan kekayaan Secret Bay, kami menemukan berbagai hewan yang tidak kalah serunya. Ada Ubur2 yang wow !, ada hermit crab di bawah dermaga, ada sea horse juga.
Sayang sekali lagi saya gak berhasil bertemu dengan Frog fish.

Berikut foto2 dari night dive di Secret Bay :
The Juvenille Sweet Lips... under the bride of Secret Bay..

The Flying Flat Worm....


Bat Fish... under the Bridge...
arround sea grass...
Pipe Fish, menyamar seperti sea grass... :).
Hampir gak kelihatan kalau gak saya amatin bener2...



















Pipe Fish @ Secret Bay....

Judulnya : "Terancam Bahaya !"
hahaha.... juvenile sweetlips yang cantik...
foto diambil dibawah dermaga Secret Bay
Ikan lele (Cat fish) :), di antara sampah.... agak kaget juga karena dia sendirian, tidak schooling,
mungkin kalau pagi berangkat sekolah rame-rame, kalau bobok sendiri-sendiri kali ya....























Beautifull Ubur-Ubur, property of Satriyo Mahendrawan..
Nicely done... 2 strobes memberikan kesan 'round'...

































Hermit Crab, Dardanus Pedunculatus, close up, Under the Bridge of Secret Bay



Beautifull banded shrimp... dengan megah berdiri mengumpulkan makanan....

Banggai Cardinal Fish (Sphaeramia nematopterayang endemic di Secret Bay....






























Check cerita dan foto2 lain Secret Bay disini : http://rizalchristian.blogspot.com/2012/01/dive-trip-preparation-secret-bay.html



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