Instant Reader Report on Diving
Aquamarine Diving/Nusantara Famili in
Indonesia/Secret Bay, Bali in
2002/08

by
David Lenderman, TX, usa
Report Number 020917171443158

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 Wakatobi, Palau, Sipadan, Fiji, Yap, Hawaii, Bonaire, Little Cayman,
Belize, Cozumel 

No restrictions.  

Shore facility at Secret Bay is nicely set up for underwater photographers.
 Shade, showers, plenty of room for gearing up, changing film, etc.  Four
rinse tanks, two dedicated to cameras.  

Overall Rating

Secret Bay in Gillimanuk is muck diving capital of Bali.  Spent four days
and nights diving Secret Bay.  Aquamarine Diving (www.aquamarinediving.com)
put us up at a local homestay, Nusantara Famili.  Homestay provided all
meals and 1/2 mile transport to and from Secret Bay shore dive facility. 
Nusantara Famili is very small place with only 4 or 5 air conditioned rooms
for rent in a family compound.  Much nicer than rooms available at the
Secret Bay facility.

Dive times are determined by tides.  Dive only on incoming and high tide. 
When tide starts out vis really drops (<10 feet).  We did 2 day and one
night dive per day.  Critters spotted include: several ghost pipe fish,
numerous fogfish, schooling catfish, various crabs and shrimp, numerous
species of lionfish and scorpion fish, bobbit worms, pegasus fish, wasp
fish and numerous nudibranches.  On most dives I managed to shoot two
cameras full of film.

Annabel of Aquamarine Diving took care of many logistical details for us
to make trip go smoothly.  Ramon the guide from Aquamarine was a nice guy
and very service oriented.

 

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