The Highway
The extensive reef-back north of
Sekotong is a popular site for our morning dives. The reef is about
3km long with sidetracks coming off right and left. The top starts
at 18m and you will find the sandy bottom at about 32m. The variety
of species is huge. You can find jacks, trevallies, white tip reef
sharks, different rays incl. mantas and many more.
Hadiah
Reef
This northern reef takes you down to about 26m and offers a multitude of colorful reef fish. Lionfish, sergeant fish, gobies of all sorts and an array of nudibranches will enhance your dive. This spot is one of our favorites for night dives, as it is the home to many lobsters and crustaceans.
Gili Kura Kura
A favorite for early morning and night dives! The reef is formed by huge hard coral formations and impressive fan corals. It's extremely popular with juvenile fish and crustaceans. The reef falls straight off to 16 meters, and offers fun, colorful, and relaxing diving for everyone.
Gili Renggit Timur
A marvelous dive site on the east side of Gili Renggit, and an excellent site to explore. Surrounded by shrimps, ghost pipefish and glassfish, you dive along a slope lined with soft coral and feather stars. Blue spotted rays, cuttlefish, moray eels and a lot more await you. When diving here, don't forget to take a look into the blue every now and then, here could be a white tip reef shark posing for you!
Gili Renggit Barat
Another favorite in the west is Gili Renggit, as it offers rare species for the macro fan. The corals are populated with nudibranches, ghost pipefish and colorful shrimps. Come and see if you can find the camouflaged frogfish or let the cleaner shrimp give you a manicure!
Sunken Island
Very popular for relaxed and colorful diving is this soft slope in the west of Sekotong. Around the deeper coral blocks you will find groupers, batfish, trumpet fish, shy octopus, and bearded scorpion fish. With a little luck you also can see eagle rays and mantas cruising out in the blue!
Stairs to Medang
Terracing down from 14m to about 35m you will experience a fascinating underwater landscape. Here you can experience the Indopacific at its best. We've seen mantas, different species of sharks and plenty of lively reef fish in all colors and sizes. On top of the plateau it's not uncommon to run into lobsters and turtles.
Lighthouse
After reaching around 14 meters on the slowly descending plateau we find landslide similar terrain. As we dive along this breakage, we are accompanied by emperor fish, big groupers and surgeon fish. The dive leads into a deeply gorging valley lined by heavy, massive coral formations. Once in the valley we find white tip reef sharks, schooling mackerel, schooling sweet lips, and an abundance of lively fish.
Batu Mandi and Batu Gendang
At "the drum stone" you will descent to about 25m and find big, massive blocks which give you the impression of diving in a labyrinth. This is the home to white tip reef sharks, napoleon fish and many sweet lips. Here you also can dive with different species of sharks as well as with tunas, jacks and barracudas. It is here where we witnessed schools of eagle rays.
Since some of our dive sites are in the open sea, we cannot guarantee that diving these sites is possible at all times! |
