Diving Komodo 2

Next up was Mawan reef, a renowned Manta spot. The Manta come here to get cleaned by the reef fish, otherwise known as "cleaning station".
We submerged down into this shallow reef where the Manta drift in the currents and get cleaned. As a diving experience it wasn't the most exciting as we basically just perched on the floor, sometimes hanging on to rocks or coral so as to not get pushed away by the current, and observed these creatures huge wafting over us. It was quite the experience having these 3 to 4m wide creatures swim around us. They have such a gentle flapping movement you almost forget your are underwater and that they're not flying animals.
We also saw a ribbon eel and other fish, but we were rather awed by the Mantas and couldn't keep our eyes off them.

Unfortunately, the gopro fogged up on me and the footage I have of this dive isn't as nice as I would have liked it to be.

After that we were taken to a beautiful beach in between dives on Siaba Kecil island.

And to our amazement, everytime we emerged from a dive, we were met with either a meal or some sort of snack waiting for us on the boat.Read more