| May Part 6 |
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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! When we got back to the beach after the first dive I saw this old Australian geezer playing around with a homemade housing for his video camera, and a man in a rather camp looking bright yellow wetsuit. Turns out the 'old man' was diving legend Ron Taylor, and there's only one person in the world who can get away with a bright yellow wetsuit, Doug Seifert. The following day we headed out to Menjangen again for a couple of dives, here I would take my macro rig for the fighting Pygmies and wideangle setup to do some filter photography of the beautiful soft and hard corals in the shallows. That evening we headed back to Tulamben so Renaud and Mirellie could get back to work, and so Jamie and I could head out to Gili Saleng to do a fun drift dive, and then to the Japanese Wreck to see some beautiful Sea Fans in shallow water. |