Started our day off early and the boat made its way to castle rock bomi, one of the best dive spots in the Komodo area. We dropped in in front of the rock, with the plan to dive straight down and let the current wash us onto the rock. John had some problems getting down, first his alternate went into free flow and then he couldn't purge his BCD and ended up chugging a lot of air in order to swim down. Once on the rock we could look up and enjoy the spectacle. Massive fish such as dogtooth tuna, Napoleon wrasse, and giant travelly sailed though the water. We caught sight of at least 6 white tip sharks. Large shoals of fish came together, feeding on the rich currents flowing over the bomi. Furthermore we also spotted an eel, blue spot ray and a couple of giant puffers. The dive was ended a little early when John realised he was almost out of air, and ended up using Darryn's alternate. Darryn was chuffed as he had never needed to use it!
We surfaced and the boat made its way to the next site, Crystal bomi. This one had a lot less current for once and we had an amazing dive. The highlight was a large eagle ray that really seemed to like us. He looked a little like the mantas, but with a spotted back and a face and large nose. We also saw three sharks, an octopus, and lots more.
Next dive was Tetawa Besar where we spotted 2 reef sharks, 2 turtles, 2 nudibranchs, 2 lobsters, and lots of fish and beautiful coral. We had a really relaxing day, resting and sleeping or sunbathing and chatting between dives.
Darryn asked if we would like to do another night dive and we were all keen. Uncle John joined us this time as we went to Siaba Besar. We were warned by Darryn that we might be stalked by lionfish and he was right! Very soon after descending, he spotted them - a huge black lionfish and a smaller one. They liked our torch light as they wanted to us it to hunt. I had never seen them so active - during the day they just hang around... We tried to move away from them, but soon we saw them again, they were following us! They are pretty poisonous, so none of us wanted to risk a sting. We settled onto the sea floor and waved our torches around them, spotting some small fish. They stalked and attacked the fish, eating them in one go! The big lionfish went for one fish that was a little big than he was used to, and he half choked. After that he left us alone, but his little friend continued to follow. We saw other amazing things like a sponge carrier crab, purple frogfish, huge moray eel, 2 sleeping turtles, crocodile flathead, blue spotted ray, etc.
Next dive was Tetawa Besar where we spotted 2 reef sharks, 2 turtles, 2 nudibranchs, 2 lobsters, and lots of fish and beautiful coral. We had a really relaxing day, resting and sleeping or sunbathing and chatting between dives.
Darryn asked if we would like to do another night dive and we were all keen. Uncle John joined us this time as we went to Siaba Besar. We were warned by Darryn that we might be stalked by lionfish and he was right! Very soon after descending, he spotted them - a huge black lionfish and a smaller one. They liked our torch light as they wanted to us it to hunt. I had never seen them so active - during the day they just hang around... We tried to move away from them, but soon we saw them again, they were following us! They are pretty poisonous, so none of us wanted to risk a sting. We settled onto the sea floor and waved our torches around them, spotting some small fish. They stalked and attacked the fish, eating them in one go! The big lionfish went for one fish that was a little big than he was used to, and he half choked. After that he left us alone, but his little friend continued to follow. We saw other amazing things like a sponge carrier crab, purple frogfish, huge moray eel, 2 sleeping turtles, crocodile flathead, blue spotted ray, etc.
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