Wicked’s eighteenth trip of the Komodo season got off to a sun drenched start, as the Jaya headed towards Sebayor for an exploratory sunset snorkel. With nine return guests, Jason, Lee, Kim, Choi, Inyoung, Willhelm, Ellen, Jay, Louise and Paulina joined by three new guests, Lee, Sarah and Phil, spirits were high. After some debate, and lost bets, about the water temperature around the island (it was 27 C by the way), guests were treated to a snorkel in a new spot which proved to be an excellent location. Those who decided not to snorkel enjoyed a sundowner as they watched the sun set behind always stunning Sangeang.
The next day on the Komodo Liveaboard started with dives at Karang Makassar and along with black tip and white tip sharks and eagle rays, Karang Makassar also gave up its prize of manta rays for all the divers. The next dive site, Tengah, showed another, craggier and rawer side of Komodo with eagle rays and a huge school of barracuda tornadoing off the reef.
This day was topped off by a sunset mandarin fish dive at Wainilu. The shy mandarin fish, highly prized by divers worldwide, came out at sunset displaying their marvelous colours and were also joined by their cousins, the slightly bolder but equally beautiful, picturesque dragonets.
Wainilu was explored in more depth the following morning. With so many reefs, pinnacles and channels in Komodo, guests were pleased to find that you can even muck dive here. In amongst the algae and coral heads, weird and wonderful creatures such as frogfish, spider crabs, fingered dragonets, papuan cuttlefish, nudis in all shapes and colours, including Pikachu nudi were spotted. The final stop on the trips itinerary was Rinca to see the famed Komodo dragons.
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