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. 

On the first dive here I found 3 or 4 Hippocampus denise on a seafan, luckily I had my macro rig on this time so could spend a lot of time observing and trying to capture the behaviour of these diminutive creatures.  I was so engrossed in this community of Seahorses that I forgot I was diving on normal air, and the first time I looked at my conservative Suunto computer on the dive it had 20 minutes deco on it!  Luckily the shallow reef had lots of life on it so i moved up there and finished off my decompression obligation whilst shooting juvenile oriental sweetlips. These are cute little fish that when they feel threatened they turn around and shake their behind at you, not the easiest thing to shoot a portrait of!

For the next dive we headed to another reef in that area, i took wide-angle and was lucky enough to find a few lionfish hunting in the many glassy sweepers on this site, which occupied me for the whole of the 100 minute dive.