Today finds the trip exploring Pulau(s) Moyo and Satonda. (how does one write that correctly?) Tomorrow they will visit the mentioned below...
Bit of a choppy night across the strait, but gorgeous scenery to wake up to more than made up for it! First dive of the day at Haji’s Wall, off Moyo, where Shannon found us some Denise pygmy seahorses, lovely sloping coral reef with napoleon wrasse and schools of snapper all over.
Carrying our way along the coast to Satonda, we made our last
dive at Satonda Bay, a fantastically chilled dive site that had all kinds of
treasures, more pygmy seahorses, neon nudibranchs, robust ghost pipefish, and
to top it all off, Sam’s first manta ray! Jubilant surface swim back to the boat for some pad thai then nap time! Dinghyed across to Satonda later that afternoon, made our way to land over the wonkiest little pier you’ve ever seen, and up to a mini viewpoint for photo time.
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| Lake in Pulau Satonda |
One of the neighboring volcanoes erupted a
few hundred years ago and caused a tsunami that over spilled into the valley on
Satonda and created a lake, that has no water input from the ocean. Gradually
over the years the rainwater’s desalinized the lake, making it layers of salt
and fresh water, and there’s a few cool organisms and fish that can survive in
both types of water that live there. Time for a swim?! OK!
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| Bats at Night |
Another beautiful sunset as we rounded the corner of Satonda and cruised towards the volcanic island of Sangeang just in time to see the bat migration on the way, hundreds and hundreds of bats flying above the boat, very cool!
Here is some video we took of the area and some interviews with guests and staff from last year when we visited Moyo. And some footage from Satonda - the lake and the bats!
If you would like to read some of the entries from the expedition last year....http://www.slideshare.net/wickeddiving/wicked-expedition-singapore-to-komodo
Remember to follow their progress, real-time here...http://ow.ly/aIZh6
If you would like to join our adventures in Komodo, you can join our 3 or 6 day Komodo Liveaboards.
-Wicked Diving
If you would like to read some of the entries from the expedition last year....http://www.slideshare.net/wickeddiving/wicked-expedition-singapore-to-komodo
Remember to follow their progress, real-time here...http://ow.ly/aIZh6
If you would like to join our adventures in Komodo, you can join our 3 or 6 day Komodo Liveaboards.
-Wicked Diving
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