Bali Day2 - Tulamben
It took about 3 hrs by car from Denpasar to Tulamben. After arriving, we quickly set up for our first dive of the trip.
Dive 1 (USS Liberty Wreck) - This 100m long wreck was sunk in WWII near the shore. The first moment underwater at Bali was impressive. A group of garden eel on the sea bottom near to the Wreck welcomed us. We all divers were longing for this big blue water dive after all the milky water dives of HK this summer. Marine lives of the Wreck were abundant. There were small creatures as well as bigger fishes such as sweetlip. It was also my first time taking pics of garden eels and the hairy squat lobster.
Dive 2 (Drop off) - is few minutes away by car. It was dominated by small creatures such as seaslugs, minute frogfish, anemone shrimp, crinoid shrimp as well as blennies.
Dive 3 (Mimpi)(means dream in Indonesian) - Visibility was reduced. Nonetheless, i was very happy to have met a beautiful seaslug, a few bumphead as well as a group of Jack near the end of the dive.
Dive 4 (nite dive USS Liberty Wreck) - It was not a very good dive for me. My HID went out of order right after descend. So, i have to rely on the 44 LED focus light of my cam for the rest of the dive. Even worse, my mask was fogging from time to time. Nevertheless, it was pleasant to have met a few big bumphead sleeping.
We stayed overnite at the Saya Resort nearby.
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 Dive 1 (Tulamben)-
a school of garden eel welcomed us upon descend  Divers found a pink squat lobster at the barrel sponge coral  Sea fan at deeper water
 neon triplefin  Seaslug  Pink Squat Lobster  Pink Squat Lobster  flatworm
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