After all that excitement and travelling I headed back to my 'home' base in Sanur for a few days to get my clothes washed and catch up on some other bits and pieces before heading out to Gili Trewangen to look for Sea Turtles and take a look at the artificial reef project set-up by the Villa Ombak Diving Academy.

The next day we headed to the not so Secret Bay, for a few muck dives.  This bay used to be famous for its muck diving but sadly of late locals have started using dredging nets to catch prawns, clearing away the once abundant benthic critters.  It's still good though, we found many Pipefish, Cardinalfish - and in the seagrass lots of large seahorses, maybe a dozen of them!

The following day we headed out into Pemuteran Bay to Napoleon Reef.  There arent (m)any Napoleon Wrasse left here as the dynamite fisherman and fish collectors raided this small area a few years ago, but the good news is that since then the local community of Pemuteran has made its own 'police' to stop dynamite fishing and encourage sustainable fishing practices. 

We had a bit of relax time (computer time for the photographers)  that afternoon, before starting the diving the next day in Menjangen National Park, a 20 minute drive and then 40 minute boat ride from Pemuteran bay.  As this was an exploratory trip for all of us on the trip, apart from out star guide Cornelius, we were all excited to be heading to Menjagen as we'd heard stories of the Blue Water and strong currents making this a beautiful location for photography.