We headed off to a week in the sun on Bali’s east coast. Diving (scuba), driving (scooters), and dining (seafood) were the only things on our agenda. Our hotel was fabulous, and we went under the sea a few times as well. Here are a few shots from around our resort, as well as some of the undersea life we saw on our first day of diving. More to come!!
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- Our October break (spring break, here in the southern hemisphere) was dedicated to the joys of underwater life!
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- We always say we should take better note of the places we stay, so here’s the official “picture for the record.”
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- The view from our rooms’ balcony.
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- Not sure if this is an official “infinity pool” or not, but it sure was nice!
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- Tough livin’
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- Alea lets the water’s refraction offset her feet a little
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- Getting ready to go under – with a Balinese fishing boat above and in the shadow of the volcano Agung.
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- Breck takes a snorkeling plunge.
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- Alea heading under the sea…
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- Susan swims with the fishes…
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- Love the contrasty colors and light under here
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- Here’s the first moray we saw – looks like he’s getting ready for lunch!
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- A clown fish comes out to greet us
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- We saw bunches of rays on these dives – they hunch up like this when they are getting ready to swim (either away or on the attack!)
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- Here’s another ray, chilling on the seafloor
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- Beautiful colors and oh-so-much sealife
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- A leaf scorpion fish hanging out. We saw quite a number of these too – white, yellow, and pink.
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- Another scorpionfish – a very different type, giving us a face-on stare!
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- Here’s another one of a different guy…
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- Really cool interplay of shapes and textures allover the reefs. Check out the red brittle star in the middle of all that stuff.
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- There wasn’t always a ton of structure (at least compared to some of our other dives), but this section was a fabulous wall.
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- Susan scoots in for a closer look.
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- Alea checks out the coral growth.
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- Breck slips past a coral formation
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- Cool spots and iridescent colors abound
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- We loved the fan-type coral.
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- An underwater utopia
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- They even reminded us of snow-covered trees, something that we’ve not seen much of the past few years!
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- This is just a closer look at all the little tiny pieces that make up each fan – truly “fan”tastic!
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- We dived at a Japanese wreck from WW2 – we’ve snorkeled there on various occasions, but never dived. Susan liked it so much, we ended up going back the next day too.
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- And what photo shoot is complete without a lionfish?! We saw lots of these on our dives (but, strangely enough, not a single turtle).
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- Nudibranch – the slugs of the sea.
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- We ran into this puffer hiding out in an amphora-type coral.
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- We are always on the hunt for seahorses, and here’s one we came across. A pygmy seahorse, he is about the size of a fingernail!! We’ll post more pictures in the next few days as well!
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