Komodo - Trip Reports
Back In The Land of the Dragons
The Mermaid I just got started with the first trip of the season in the Land of the Dragons, and it was full of surprises! Our first dives in Moyo island delivered big school of fusiliers, longfin bannerfish, as well as black tip reef sharks. On our first night dive right in front of a […]
Back in Komodo – A Homecoming
After quite some time being away exploring Raja Ampat, Halmahera, Lembeh, the Togean islands, Alor and the Banda Sea. The Mermaid II found herself on a homecoming journey, sailing from Maumere through Komodo and beyond before returning to her home port of Benoa in Bali for more adventures to come! The trip began with a […]
The Beauty Of The Currents Of Komodo
Currents are so much fun and I am here to tell you why diving into it is such a wicked experience. It’s always a very exciting dive when we get to be amongst large schools of fish and other big stuff. And one of the main reasons that brings all the fish action together is […]
Inspiring, Pristine, And Incredible Dives
An outstanding trip back to Komodo covered with rare and majestic marine life! Reef slopes and walls combined with thousand of Anthias filling the blue background! That’sprobably one of the post cards of Komodo. Pretty blue, sharks, fish schooling, eagle rays and more big stuff! Most of the dive sites up in the north of […]
Wonderpus!
Another trip with beautiful conditions – clear blue water and just enough current to bring all the good stuff in! The seamounts in North Komodo were packed with fish, and we found ourselves totally embedded in Surgeonfish, Snappers and Fusilliers while the predators, such as Giant Trevallies and Whitetip Reef Sharks, circled us, waiting for […]
Swim-through Manta Wash!
Highlight this trip’s gotta be the Mantas in the south of the Komodo National Park. Famous for its cleaning stations, with any luck you’ll see these majestic rays lining up to get fixed by hundreds of cleaner fish. With good conditions we fully enjoyed the show, particularly when the Mantas moved in with their mouths […]
Mantas, Eagle Rays & Mobulas!!
Although we see Manta Rays on pretty much all Bali – Komodo trips, on some they’re just everywhere. Starting already the first dive in the Komodo National Park, we spent our safety stop watching one of these beautiful creatures circling a cleaning station for a morning fix. More interested in the facility than us, we […]
Diving an Active Volcano!!
We had an absolutey wonderful day at Sangeang Volcano this trip! Blue blue water, stunning corals and full of interesting critters of all sizes. Most famous dive here is Hot Rocks, where you have very obvious signs of the volcano not being quite dead yet – bubble fields in the shallows and really hot rocks […]
HERE BE DRAGONS!!
This time of the year it’s mating season for the famous Komodo Dragons, and they typically disappear up in the mountains for a month or two making it difficult to find any. We got really lucky though, as we managed to encounter a whole bunch of them. Seven to be more precise! With, in all […]
Dolphins!!
We had some cracking dives in the Komodo National Park this trip! At Castle Rock, a seamount in the north, we were diving in a virtual fishsoup – Giant Trevallies, Surgeonfish, Snappers and Batfish in great numbers, as well as Whitetip and Grey Reef Sharks patrolling the deeper parts. Batu Bolong, another famous dive, delivered […]