Our trip took us to the east coast of Bali continues, nach Tamed. Since we could pick up our passports with the visa extended Indonesia in the evening in Ubud, We took a taxi. A private driver in Bali is quite cheap. It is also not everywhere by public transport through. On every street corner a courier services are offered “Ok Sir, Taxi, yes? Tomorrow?”. Sometimes it can be a bit annoying, when someone asks every few meters, but you get used to it.
Traffic in Bali is usually a bit messy and the roads are unfortunately not the best. To drive in the dark is therefore probably more demanding than in daylight, but our driver took us well and safely.
Amed is a small sleepy town and out diving and snorkeling you can not do as much here. Also, we have come here to dive and the next morning it started right away so.
We drove to the next town, Tulamben not, because here is a few meters off the coast of the wreck of the U.S. Navy cargo ship USAT. Liberty. The over 100m long ship was shot over 70 years ago by a Japanese submarine and brought to the beach of Tulamben in tow to secure the cargo. 21 years later the hull collapsed due to an earthquake and it sank near the beach. Over time, many corals and creatures here have settled. It was very exciting and dive through the wreck. Komang, Our local dive guide of the French immersion school Baruna Dive Center, it had an underwater camera and was thus able to shoot underwater happy memories for us.
We spent our second day of diving off the coast Ameds. With a typical small colorful fishing boat we drove a few minutes to the first dive site “Bunutan”: There we have seen so far the most beautiful coral. Then we went to the dive site “Pyramids”: there stone pyramids were artificially created, which are covered with many coral. There we could even see Pygmy Seahorse. The underwater world here is really great.
In the afternoon we snorkeled still has a bit to Dopey made his trip to the salon. An employee from the guest house took him down with a moped and played Translator. But there were a few translation problems and finally Seppel had very short hair. But yes grow again…
And then it was already back pack backpacks, because we wanted to make Penida and then stay the same for a few days on the neighboring island of Lembongan on a diving trip to the offshore island of Bali Nusa. Before the two islands, there are two very special sea creatures: Manta Rochen und-Mola Molas (Sunfish). These animals are huge and come to have to get rid of parasites by cleaner fish here called cleaning stations. Of course, we were hoping to get these extraordinary fish face.
After two hours boat ride we reached the “Manta Point”. It was unfortunately very strong waves and I was pretty seasick. But in the water it was better and we were also quickly compensated for the hardships. After we had gone underground for a few minutes, we discovered about ourselves just below the water surface, the first manta ray. It seemed as if he was floating in the water. We were amazed at the already Manta came the next and soon we were virtually surrounded by the huge animals, there were a total of around 20 Mantas! Their wingspan was about. 4m. Rays of the sun appeared above the manta rays and from the seabed that was a very fascinating picture. We could not get enough of us, in spite of only 22 degrees of cold water. Sorry, there was but eventually the oxygen and we had to surface. I was afraid of colliding with a Manta, because they were so close and not at all disturbed by felt. Even at the surface we could see the big black shadow. The first dive had been worthwhile fully.
Then we went to “Crystal Bay” on the search for the Mola Molas. The currents were very strong and we stayed close to the seabed. By the movement of water it was alternately a few meters to the right and then left again. The water was even colder here, 19th Grade, and in spite of two superimposed drawn wetsuits we pretty quickly frozen. But we had a clear view and saw beautiful coral, a few barracuda shoals, an octopus… but unfortunately no Mola Molas. Our dive guide Komang already shaking like a leaf, and was glad when we showed up again.
On the way back we have come to settle on the island of Lembongan and I was glad to have solid ground under their feet to have.