Mola Mola in Bali where to stay

[billt4sf]

I will give a free day of diving to anyone diving Blue Corner from shore with no boat surface supervision on a descending tide 2 days after new moon. Any candidates?

What's the catch?!? The free day of diving is AFTER you dive Blue Corner -- i.e. you have to return?!?

- Bill

 

[gekodivebali]

I know Bill... If you don't mind me saying: I saw my first mola mola of the year today at Crystal Bay around 11:00am (25 degrees, 27m, 2m tall, name Alan). Problem is the currents were so strong he was staying sideways while getting cleaned. A great 10 minutes encounter following a dive with 20 manta rays. No one even mentions the nurse sharks...

 

[billt4sf]

I know Bill... If you don't mind me saying: I saw my first mola mola of the year today at Crystal Bay around 11:00am (25 degrees, 27m, 2m tall, name Alan). Problem is the currents were so strong he was staying sideways while getting cleaned. A great 10 minutes encounter following a dive with 20 manta rays. No one even mentions the nurse sharks...

Oh! F' OFF you F'ing F'man!

 

[gekodivebali]

Oh! Fly off you flying fishman?

 

[gekodivebali]

You'll see them in October anyways...

 

[gekodivebali]

Everyone, please don't tell Bill that we had another sunfish at White Sand Beach in Padang Bai yesterday (& don't mention the dolphin I saw yesterday as well on Tanjung Sari).

 

[Dan]

I know Bill... If you don't mind me saying: I saw my first mola mola of the year today at Crystal Bay around 11:00am (25 degrees, 27m, 2m tall, name Alan). Problem is the currents were so strong he was staying sideways while getting cleaned. A great 10 minutes encounter following a dive with 20 manta rays. No one even mentions the nurse sharks...

The nurse shark that I saw there several times has strange color of alternating dark & light grey, almost looks like a giant bamboo shark. I haven't seen such nurse shark anywhere else.

 

[billt4sf]

You'll see them in October anyways...

You think? LATE October.

 

[Dan]

Everyone, please don't tell Bill that we had another sunfish at White Sand Beach in Padang Bai yesterday (& don't mention the dolphin I saw yesterday as well on Tanjung Sari).

You might see also what the local people called hiu tokai (or gecko shark), a variation of wobbegong shark with fewer tassels than that of wobbegong of Raja Ampat. These gecko shark is closer to those wobbegong in GBR, as if the strong ocean from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean passing through Lombok strait carries some of those GBR wobbegong sharks to Padang Bai, similar to the Oceanic Mola Mola migration.

 

[Dan]

Padang Bai Gecko shark