Amed

I've been in Komodo for about a week now. Diving has been typically great but I've been having trouble getting motivated to go through any of the pictures I've taken recently. I did manage to work on a couple (as in exactly two) from the last of my three days in Amed though. Of course technically this dive site was in Tulamben so these aren't really even from Amed but here goes...

On Saturday I'm off on Komodo Dancer Indo Aggressor for my first of two back-to-back ten day trips. So expect posts at about the same rate they've been coming lately. At best. I do have a 3 day break back on Labuan Bajo between trips so hopefully I'll get another post with some shots from Komodo then. Expect mantas because there are a ton of them around this year.

I'm back in Bali now and decided to come up to Amed for a few days.

Although Amed is still a bit remote (for Bali at least), this is civilization compared to Belongas Bay so I can finally post a few pictures from last week. The Hammerheads never did show up so these are mostly pictures of various pelagic rays I saw while I was there. The quality of the second manta picture is pretty terrible but I wanted to post it because I have seen very very few Oceanic mantas and have never managed to take a picture at all before this.

The hilight of Belongas for me was the school of Mobula rays at Gili Sarang. Although I've encountered them several times before this was the largest school I've seen. This is one of those blue water shots that is probably way over processed but I kind of like how it came out.

Tomorrow is my first day of diving in Amed. Hopefully I'll have at least a few pictures to post from the 3 days I have here.

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I've been diving Belongas Bay in southern Lombok for the past 5 days. This is my first tine here and diving has been pretty good even though the hammerheads I came here to see haven't shown up. Unfortunately the internet connection here is terrible so no pictures yet. I do have a few pictures to post when I get to my next destination in a few days. Still waffling on where exactly that's going to be (somewhere back in Bali most likely) but after that I'm finally heading to Komodo. Hooray!