Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Trip review: Komodo 27 Apr - 01 May; 30 Apr - 05 May


As I’m still in Bali, therefore I’ll just do a simple summary about the trip(s):
I will not write too much about the facility and dive master, as they are not performing as they promised (or at least we expect) - since I may change both items anyway. The 2nd trip, which we were forced to report ourself to the Komodo National Park headquarter in the middle of the 2nd day diving, was frustrating. Below is the encounters, which we may expect to search on the coming trips, hopefully with much more additional experiences and marine life.

Marine life:

  • Big item

Manta ray

Eagle ray

White tipped shark

Napoleon wrasse

Hawksbill turtle

Dolphin (on the surface, next to our dinghy)
 Mackerel

Giant trevally

Giant moray eel

  • Medium size (schools – all sort of fish)
  • Small item

Bobtailed squid

Unknown small octopus

Broad club cuttlefish

Giant reef cuttlefish

Crocodile fish
Leaf fish
  
Lamellarids (relative to cowries) 
Flatworms
Side gill slug
Up side down jellyfish

Bubbles shell
 Bubbles coral shrimp (few types)

Mushroom coral shrimp (few types)

Fire urchin colonies (zebra crab, coleman shrimp)

Imperial shrimp

Banded pipefish

Mandarin fish

Juvenile sweetlips

Juvenile batfish (yellow margin black bodied)

Ribbon Eel

 Nudibranch:

‘Banana’ Notodoris Gordinari

‘Pikachu’ Thecacera sp.

Nembrotha megalocera

Other Nembrotha

Robastrea sp.

Gymnodoris anrita

Ceratosoma magnificum

Ceratosoma gracilimum

Chromodoris magnifera

Other Chromodoris
 Phyllidia (of course…)
‘Camouflage’ Morionia sp. (black lined)
‘Flower coral mimic’ nudi still searching..
‘Lay cirri’ phyllodesmium longicirrum

Trippa sp. Or Dendrodoris (not identified, let me learn more first)
  

Dive area:
 North west Komodo has great visibility and coral; South west Komodo place for Manta; center Komodo not very attractive, Rinca Island very good with macro

Other:

Of course, Komodo Dragon

Megapods (a type of land bird)

Imperial pigeon

Cockatoo (white bodied)

Deer

Wild boar

Magnificent landscape

Fierce current (but not in the dive site. Only 1 dive in Crystal Rock we saw bubbles actually going down into depth, then one of the dive in Manta Ale down tow current caused by wave, we left the dive site immediately upon surfacing…)

Many of the common fish certainly not listed here, as well as unique coral and crabs, reef lobster, spiny lobster… The rest of the thing such as photos will be pasted later when I’m back to KL… and if I’m free… sorry ya?

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