Secret Bay Dive Sites - Muck Diving in Bali

Secret Bay: This dive site is located in front of the docking area of Gilimanuk Harbor.

Be prepared - you are diving on fine black and gray volcanic sand and rubble and not on a coral reef! This place is a great place for the rare and unusual. This so called muck diving is one of macro-photography best sites. You will find frogfish hispidus, A. striatus, A. maculatus and A. nummifer, special nudibranchs, ghostpipefish, the rare picturesque dragonet and gobies, several species of sand eels, stonefish and devilfish, mimic octopus and even the Ambon scorpionfish (Pteroidichthys amboinensis), crabs and shrimps and many other critters that like to live on sand. Actually a new species was introduced somewhere between 2005 and 2006, the endemic Banggai cardinalfishes (Pterapogon kauderi). This is a beautiful fish which is used in aquariums,It wont recommended if you introduce it someplace completely else, probably just so some photographers can make nice pictures!

Look around the pieces of half rotten wood, among the sponges and specially under the garbage (inside the metal drums for example) and in the metal structures put up in several places. These objects act like a small oasis where animals can hide, so they are a good place to find camouflaged animals such as the frogfish or seahorses. We noticed, that there are seasonal changes at the Secret Bay dive sites. On one visit a place would be just full with certain nudibranchs on the sea grass, an other year only a few could to be found...[PRLog]