Sharks: a type of fish usually seen on the dinner tables at chinese weddings.
I couldn’t hide my excitement when I saw them about 30m at Coral garden on my 2nd dive. The first one was playing with the remoras when we spotted them. I was told they were the resident Black Tip sharks at the Drop Off (even though I’ve never seen them there). I was in a happy daze after that… floating around till my tank went empty. And I meant 0 bar.
Earlier in the day, Ziggy and Powell, both whom I met at the dive at Nusa Penida arrived at Tulamben after taking a day off diving at Kuta. Ziggy have been sharing alot about diving in Bali since he has 10 years experience diving on this island. Two days ago, he told me the deepest he went to was 102m. I asked, “so what did you see at 102m?”. “My dive comp.” was his reply. Very honest and very funny.
The tide was very high as we approached full moon. Ziggy and Powell had left for a village to watch the full moon celebrations. I know I’m having a date with Z monster after all that diving. Nitrogen makes one sleep I think. As I sat at the restaurant, I can’t help but wonder, when will I be back again. Strange feeling since this is the 3rd time this year that I’ve been here. Soon I hope.
Here are some images from the day.
When I stepped out of my room, half asleep, clad in my sleeping clothes and lugging the camera along… I thought I was in jail. Beautiful lighting nonetheless:)
Sunrise at the Drop Off. Fishing boats out for their early catch.
I felt it, so I took it.
The resident barracuda staking outside the wreck. Visibility was pretty bad, good thing I didn’t run into it. It won’t be pretty.
I was taking the picture of the cleaner shrimp (below) and when I turned around, I saw this fella watching me. I pointed the camera at it and it flared it’s fins before swimming away while eyeballing me.
The cleaner shrimp doing it’s work at the cleaning station. It’s quite interesting to watch them work.
Red or Blue? The two Harlequin shrimps fighting over a piece of starfish. Red one won the fight.
The resident black tip shark at the Drop Off. They swam past the Coral Garden… lucky bump there!:D
That shot of the Barracuda is awesome man!! NatGeo quality liao!
yes..ron is right..awesome pic!
we saw the shark (1 only) during our last dive at coral garden… the one you skipped…
nice photos, as usual.
I am just looooving your underwater stuff, what setting are you shooting on most of the time?
Dude,
Nice pic of the cleaner shrimp. I say it is good enough to appear in those diving pictorial! Way to go.
Ron: thanks man!:) natgeo still far… very.
dan: thanks dude:D
kong: Ah! now that you reminded me. But one of the reasons for returning to coral garden was because of the feedback from you guys on that trip as well as some others I met on this. Very interesting site indeed.
arlene: Thank you thank you!:D It’s actually a mix depending what I’m shooting, with or without flash. With flash and macro it’s almost always M. The rest of the time, usually on TV, sometimes AV. Works pretty well under good lighting conditions.
Edwin: keke! got lobang?:D
You’re so lucky to see the sharks!
nice shot on the barracuda… a very fierce one too.
ur shots are really nice la… n a marine biologist too?
wenz: yeah, lucky lucky! i hope i can do something for them soon. soon…:)
jun: it looks really fierce but it’s actually very friendly. but with those rows of teeth… it takes alot of guts to get close (btw, i wasn’t that close:P). no, i’m not a marine biologist, not even close. but i enjoy reading up on marine creatures.