Mola's Performance

These are some photo that I've taken during my last weekend dive gateway to Penida Island in Bali. This time trip was truly my lucky day ! It seemed that the ocean and the living sea there were smiling to me and my group. In this trip, we had 3 dives across the Penida Island which were at the Christal Bay site, the Manta Point, and last at the Cave site.

During our first dive at Christal Bay, we met the underwater diva: the Mola-mola or the Oceanic Sunfish, the heaviest known bony fish in the world with average adult weight of 1,000 kg ! Mola is actually live in 300 m depth below, but during the period of July-early November you may find this unique creatures at above 40 m depth. And I consider my self as "a lucky blessed" diver for this last Saturday, I met Mola in a minute after I jumped in to the blue water, at 17 m depth only, and she was having his skin cleaning performance for more than 20 minutes. I was about less than a meter away from her. This was my very best intimate moment with her. We were so close to each other, and she didn't even scared of me, I felt she even come closer to me specially when I shot my underwater video on her ! Yaay .... !!! :) Many divers from around the world are coming to Bali during this season just to see her, some of them could see her for a minute before she goes down again to the deep blue water, some could see her only on a very deep dark down there (sometimes we may need to go down to below 40 m depths!), but heiiii, 'am trully lucky right to see this beautiful Mola in almost every dive trip that I have in this Penida Island :)

In my second dive at Manta Point, I met the Black King Manta, one of the rare manta species to see at this site. Oh ya ! On our way from the 1st dive spot to the 2nd one, on the middle of the sea we met with a group of dolphins ! Another living attraction from the marine creatures and its trully awesome !!! At the 2nd dive we had which was the underwater cave diving, surprisingly I met with one sleeping white tip shark ! yess....shark !!! So close, a meter away from me and my buddy !!! And last we met with a giant lobster ! Hahhh, what a complete package of diving, all in a day trip only !

I just falling in love with those underwater creatures, especially the Mola ! :)