Turtle Town Sandy bottom. Nothing initially. Then we came across a forest of antler corals and a small green turle resting on the sand. Lots of fish on the coral. Some anemones with clown fish And then we saw one, two,.... about 7 big Green Turtles either resting on the reef, or coming back to rest. 3mm wetsuit. Saw an eagle ray, anemone shrimp, spoted stingray, unicorn fish, snappers, oriental sweetlips

Turtle Town Night dive. Saw three separate sea snake eels. Lots of lionfish following our lights. A giant moray eel exposed head to tail. Loads of different shrimp. Cornet fish, small scorpion fish, catfish, pipefish. Sea slugs 3mm wetsuit.

Crazy drift dive. I had a feeling of running past the reef, waving hello to resident fish. Certainly my longest dive in terms of distance covered. Came across several hawksbill turtles. Saw one white tip reef shark in the distance. Saw lots of common reef fish, including grouper, anemonefish, butterflyfish, ... Saw one small tuna, lots of soft and hard coral, one big napoleon wrasse, giant sweetlips, Scar (from Finding Nemo). 3mm wetsuit

Mauan Mantas, mantas, mantas. One had black belly, which is rare. One was truly gigantic, probably more than 4 meters in diameter. A black tip reef shark. Lots of anemone fish. Best safety stop ever. Mantas swimming around us. 3mm wetsuit.

Pasir Putih Wreck of a local boat. Nice hard corals. Saw a cuttlefish Hornet ghost pipefish Scorpionfish Blue spotted stingray Fire seaurchin. 3mm wetsuit

Pilarsteen A beautiful wall of soft and hard coral. Swim throughs. Bat fish. Nudibranches. Yellow seacucumbers. 3mm wetsuit. .

Three Sisters Three beautiful bommies. Lots of hard and soft coral. Nothing remarkable seen, but still a fantastic dive. The best bit was seeing a feathered seastar frantically searching for a new home, a place to settle. A Moray eel. 3mm wetsuit.

Secret Garden Devil rays, in groups of five to six. Two grown up and one juvenile whitetip reef sharks. A cuttlefish. Mantis shrimps. Garden eels. Banded pipefish. 3mm wetsuit.

Gintang Night dive. Pretty boring. Saw a small white cuttlefish. Saw several white snake eels. One giant moray eel. Loads of pipefish. I saw a crocodilefish. A couple of bobtail squid.

Wainilu Boring. Saw one juvenile and one adult ribbon eel. Saw one harlequin shrimp. Sexy shrimp, anemone shrimp. Ghost pipefish, i still think it may have been a leaf :-) 3mm wetsuit.

Pengah Kecil Beautiful wall dive. Lots of soft and hard coral. Saw nudibranch and a hawksbill turtle. Saw a giant moray eel swimming, trying to find a hole to settle. Saw an octopus. Lots of triggerfish. 3mm wetsuit.

Tatawa Besar Drift dive. Very poor visibility. We saw mantas from the boat, before even jumping into water. But once in, we lost them. After a short search we gave up and started drifting. It is a beautiful site with lots of soft and hard coral, and a lot of usual suspect fish. Clown fish, angelfish, damselfish, bannerfish, surgeon, sweetlips, boxfish... I saw a hawksbill turtle that Diego missed drifting past. After a lot of drifting, we were preparing for the safety stop, when Diego spotted a ninja manta. And almost immediately, a black tip reef shark swam past

Crystal Rock A beautiful wall dive at very poor visibility. Lots of fish, in large schools. Giant trevally. Large school of ‘Scar’s. One whitetip reef shark. One huge napoleon wrasse. Saw a big nudibranch. School of surgeonfish. School of jackfish. 3mm wetsuit.

Castle Rock Submerged rock. Beautiful soft and hard corals. Poor visibility. Ribbon eel. Schools of ribbonfish, bannerfish, trevalies, fusilliers. 3mm wetsuit.

China Shop Nothing much to say. A nudibranch. 3mm wetsuit.

Batu Bolong South One of the top ten dive sites in the world. And deservedly so. Everything is here. Large schools of fish. Predator fishes from sharks to tunas to barracudas to travellys to moray eels. Turtles and mantas are here as well. Even small stuff including nudibranchs can be seen among abundance of soft and hard coral. A big hawksbill turtle sitting on one and eating another coral. A small napoleon was seen. Totally unexpected, one manta showed towards the end of the dive. Big boxfish, but not as big as promised during dive brief. Big group of dogtooth tuna. Lots of fusiliers. 3mm wetsuit.

Batu Bolong North Almost fell onto a resting whitetip reef shark. Later saw multiple specimens, some quite friendly, checking us out. Saw several scorpionfish. Saw several tunas. And several giant trevallys. 3mm wetsuit.

Manta Point Crazy! Totally deserves the name. Mantas everywhere. Singles, pairs, families of three, sometimes two or three groups of mantas at the same time. Huge shallow dive site, mainly broken coral spread over an area of roughly 3 km by 500 m. Depth 8-10 m. Drifting through it and meeting mantas everywhere. Luckily the current wasn’t too strong, so we could stop and have a good look. To cap it all, I even saw a green turtle at the end of the dive. 3mm wetsuit.