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.
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| Mimpi Resort Bay view... picture taken from restaurant. |
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| 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.
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Pak Daniel... sudah mantap di air... tapi masih jadi penyelam 'katanya' hahahaha...
just between us deh pak Daniel....
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| Pak Jansen, maskernya 3 ways lho !! :). One of a kind !... |
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| Lobster.... cukup banyak sepanjang penyelaman... |
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| Leaf Scorpion Fish, Taenianotus Triacanthus. Between Dermaga 3 and Sand point... The same Leaf Scorpion Fish could be found @ Cristal Bay. |
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| Exercising for Macro Wide Angle photo... |
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| Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch |
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| Chromodoris magnifica nudi branch |
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| 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...
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| exercising for Macro Wide Ange :). |
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| I just like it :). Could not help to share to you all... |
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| Scorpion Fish on Soft Corral She mimic the color of soft corral ! :). not a Albino one. |
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| I Just like the pattern.... :), like a stitches leather work :). |
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| 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 !
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| The same Crocodile Fish (Cymbachephalus beauforti).... lay still near dermaga 3 Menjangan. |
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| The eyes !! Crocodile fish (Cymbacephalus beauforti) or De Baufort's flathead. |
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| Not 5 not 6 but 7 arms Star Fish !! :D. |
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| Happy Anemone Fishes... exited to be photographed... |
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| A Hand Bucket.... |
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| Black spotted Dogfaced Pufferfish as 'ugly' as it can be :D. (Arothron nigropunctatus) |
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Transparent leaves ? :D.
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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...
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| 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... |
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| I think those are Pacific Clown Anemone Shrimps (Periclemenes brevicarpalis) |
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| 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... |
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| 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..
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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....
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..
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...
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.
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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| 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..
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| Comensal Transparent Anemone Shrimp (Periclimenes Sarasvati) |
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| Transparent Tunicate (Sea Squirt), found by Pak Santoso... |
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| Hawkfish... berduaan ni yee.... Falco Hawkfish / Dwarf Hawkfish (Cirrhitichthys falco). Their dorsal fins are awesome :). |
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| Yellow Spotted Pipefish, commonly seen at Pemuteran, I think she is pregnant... (Corythoichthys polynotatus) |
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| Black Saddled Toby (Canthigaster valentini) |
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| Flat Worm |
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| I Just like it.... |
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| The flower from the ocean... |
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| 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...
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| Deer at Menjangan island, its called menjangan because this island is the habitat for 'Deer' (Javaneese : Menjangan) |
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| 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.
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| Kuil Kwan Im ? Di tempat persembahayangan Hindu ??? hmm.... I need to ask priest's explanation about this... |
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| Bunganya bagus !! hehehe.... Orangnya... lebih bagus lagi hiehiehiehie... |
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| Flower for you.... |
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| 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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