A Elusive Dugong While Diving South Gilis

We discovered a wealth of the remarkable Ornate Ghost Pipefish while diving the southern Gilis this week. Miranda and John came out with us to dive the South Lombok dive sites and really enjoyed their dives around the South Gilis. They spotted the gorgeous Ornate Ghost Pipefish hiding within some feather stars, and also spotted a number of turtles, nudibranchs, Cuttle fish as well as a whole range of shrimps.

Also Petra join us to dive South Lombok this week came back with a huge smile after diving our South Lombok dive sites. Petra spotted a remarkably delightful Pygmy seahorse, 2 giant moray eels, some lionfish, a Indian ocean Walkman, and of course some turtles, but also got the chance to play within a huge school of sardines at our southern Gili Dive site “The Harbor”.

Our boats crew again have been spotting our elusive dugong swimming on the surface at our South Lombok dive site “The Sands” while we were diving down below, unfortunately we haven’t run into it yet while underwater. Let’s keep our fingers crossed, hopefully sooner or later we will be lucky enough and spot the incredible animal while on our dive.

Diving South Lombok this week the weather has been hot, but we did have one day with rain for a couple of hours. The water has been nice, calm with visibility around 20m and the temperature is steadily around 28 degrees. A little bit of mild current going on, but no waves and South Lombok diving at its best.