Location: Teluk, Gili Manuk - Secret Bay -
Visibility: 5-10m
Depths: 0-10 m (0-33 ft)
Diving Conditions: Secret bay dive site has calm, shallow and clear waters. Sometimes a cold current feeds this bay, this attracts most of the sea creatures. Dive in the morning, at high tide the visibility is good at this site. Bring a 3 mm or thicker wetsuit to this west Bali dive site!
Travel time to site: 3,5 hours by mini-bus
Underwater Topography: Walk-in shore entry. A bay filled with trash! Funnily enough a clean up was once undertaken and many of the unique creatures disappeared. The junk on the bottom provides homes for many wonderful species of unusual macro life.
Marine life: Pipefish, fire urchins, tasseled firefish, yellow seahorses, cuttle fish, colourful flatworms, nudibranchs, pleurobranchs, eel-like hairtail blennies. Puffers, sea cucumbers, milkfish, ambon scorpion fish, frogfish. In the evening mandarin fish and mimic octopuses.
Main Attractions: Macro photographer heaven. |