New Dive Sites in Bali - Kerobokan Dive Sites

A new dive sites has been found in north of Bali. We are the only dive
operator that offers it magnificent underwater sites.

www.lovinadive.com --While Bali offers great diversity of dive sites,
Kerobokan Dive Sites offers unique within Bali. It is the very new
definition of muck-diving and shore Diving, rich coral reefs, no depth
to speak of, it is in basically a site for macro-photographers and for
the occasional recreational diver looking for something different from
the norm.

Kerobokan Dive Sites contains many rare macro-photography subjects
that include nudibranches, dragonets (including both the colorful
Mandarin fish and Picture Dragonet), abundant seahorse/pipefish,
unusual scorpion fish, frogfish, eels, and many, many other organisms.
Yellows hills of corral ( Kaang Kuning ) is e new dive sites.

Location: Kerobokan Village, Close with Lovina
Type of dive: Shore and Boat diving (outriggers large enough for 2-3
divers, Reef-diving)
Visibility: 15 - 25 metres
Current: Zero to mild current
Depths: 10 - 40 metres (average depth 18 meters)
Min Level: Introductory
Highlights: Fantastic coral formations, density and variety of fish,
all level will suitable, 1 Day Intro Adventure Diving Program. Great
snorkeling site.
Conditions: Black sand beach sloping into the water, coral reefs, and
Muck Diving

You should not miss this out if you are dive lover..www.lovinadive.com

this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...

While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
heard anyone praise sites off Bali. Bali is certainly worth a visit --
spent five days there traveling around the island.

albeesatria@yahoo.com wrote:

> A new dive sites has been found in north of Bali. We are the only dive
> operator that offers it magnificent underwater sites.
>
> www.lovinadive.com --While Bali offers great diversity of dive sites,
> Kerobokan Dive Sites offers unique within Bali. It is the very new
> definition of muck-diving and shore Diving, rich coral reefs, no depth
> to speak of, it is in basically a site for macro-photographers and for
> the occasional recreational diver looking for something different from
> the norm.
>
> Kerobokan Dive Sites contains many rare macro-photography subjects
> that include nudibranches, dragonets (including both the colorful
> Mandarin fish and Picture Dragonet), abundant seahorse/pipefish,
> unusual scorpion fish, frogfish, eels, and many, many other organisms.
> Yellows hills of corral ( Kaang Kuning ) is e new dive sites.
>
> Location: Kerobokan Village, Close with Lovina
> Type of dive: Shore and Boat diving (outriggers large enough for 2-3
> divers, Reef-diving)
> Visibility: 15 - 25 metres
> Current: Zero to mild current
> Depths: 10 - 40 metres (average depth 18 meters)
> Min Level: Introductory
> Highlights: Fantastic coral formations, density and variety of fish,
> all level will suitable, 1 Day Intro Adventure Diving Program. Great
> snorkeling site.
> Conditions: Black sand beach sloping into the water, coral reefs, and
> Muck Diving
>
> You should not miss this out if you are dive lover..www.lovinadive.com

On Apr 2, 6:00*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
> this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...

It's called "spam" even in Indonesian or Balinese.

> While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
> heard anyone praise sites off Bali. *Bali is certainly worth a visit --
> spent five days there traveling around the island.

I've heard plenty of praise for sites off Bali, including the mola
molas of Nusa Penida, but it's supposed to be pretty cold there and I
understand the '99 El Nino devastated the shallow corals. The closest
I got to diving Bali was diving the "Gillies" of Lombok which were
almost bare of coral, though we were treated to a huge school of
bumphead parrots.

Greg Mossman avait écrit le 02/04/2008 :
> On Apr 2, 6:00*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>> this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...
>
> It's called "spam" even in Indonesian or Balinese.
>
>> While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
>> heard anyone praise sites off Bali. *Bali is certainly worth a visit --
>> spent five days there traveling around the island.
>
> I've heard plenty of praise for sites off Bali, including the mola
> molas of Nusa Penida, but it's supposed to be pretty cold there and I
> understand the '99 El Nino devastated the shallow corals. The closest
> I got to diving Bali was diving the "Gillies" of Lombok which were
> almost bare of coral, though we were treated to a huge school of
> bumphead parrots.

Sorry boys, you're wrong about Bali. There's much more than Penida and
Lombok.
Diving there is great (Gilimanuk, Menjangan, Tulamben, Amed , ...).
Take a look at my last report and pics :
http://www.aquaphot.fr/Bali2007.htm

Enjoy.
P.

--
(pas de plouf pour m'écrire - no plouf to write)
Site Photo ss. marine : http://www.aquaphot.fr/

On Apr 3, 12:48*am, Patrick NOEL <plouf.pn...@aquaphot.fr> wrote:
> Greg Mossman avait écrit le 02/04/2008 :
>
> > On Apr 2, 6:00*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
> >> this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...
>
> > It's called "spam" even in Indonesian or Balinese.
>
> >> While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
> >> heard anyone praise sites off Bali. *Bali is certainly worth a visit --
> >> spent five days there traveling around the island.
>
> > I've heard plenty of praise for sites off Bali, including the mola
> > molas of Nusa Penida, but it's supposed to be pretty cold there and I
> > understand the '99 El Nino devastated the shallow corals. *The closest
> > I got to diving Bali was diving the "Gillies" of Lombok which were
> > almost bare of coral, though we were treated to a huge school of
> > bumphead parrots.
>
> Sorry boys, you're wrong about Bali. There's much more than Penida and
> Lombok.
> Diving there is great (Gilimanuk, Menjangan, Tulamben, Amed , ...).
> Take a look at my last report and pics :http://www.aquaphot.fr/Bali2007.htm

Hey, I was the one disagreeing with Kessler. However, there are more
notable locales in Indonesia with better diving support. I had looked
into a "diving safari" like the one you went on, and even
understanding that they will schlep all your luggage and gear from
place to place and that the Balinese ladies carry your tanks to the
water on their heads, it still sounds like a lot of work compared to a
nice relaxing liveaboard or dedicated dive resort, especially when
you're toting the same bulky camera system that I am (except that I
have an much heavier metal housing for my D200).

I was in Bali once before, on the way to and from a liveaboard to
Komodo. I'll be there again whenever I get around to visiting
Wakatobi. Maybe I'll try to get a few dives in then, since I've
already land-toured the island enough as far as I'm concerned.
Otherwise it will forever exist in my mind like Guam, a place with
interesting diving in its own right, but more practically used as a
stopover to somewhere even better.

What's the latest word on Wakatobi? Anyone been there lately?

I wouldn't mind returning to Bali for a couple of days on the way to somewhere
else. My last trip of a week stopover there took me all the way out to the far
end of the island to the water palace at Tirtaganga...I took a dip in a kind of
rustic swimming pool that was fed from a lion's mouth...the water, after having
washed over me...went on down to nourish the rice paddies below that were
terraced far as the eye could see.

Also, there was the distant "tinkle" of bells powered by a water treadmill which
caused me to mumur.."this Bali is one magical place!" Or at least it was so at
Tirtaganga and I'm happy to have made the effort to go and stayover there...and
its far enough away from the tourist haunts of Ubud, not to mention Kuta and
Denpassar or Sanur. Most tourist to Bali ever know of it.

Greg Mossman wrote:

> On Apr 3, 12:48 am, Patrick NOEL <plouf.pn...@aquaphot.fr> wrote:
> > Greg Mossman avait écrit le 02/04/2008 :
> >
> > > On Apr 2, 6:00 am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
> > >> this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...
> >
> > > It's called "spam" even in Indonesian or Balinese.
> >
> > >> While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
> > >> heard anyone praise sites off Bali. Bali is certainly worth a visit --
> > >> spent five days there traveling around the island.
> >
> > > I've heard plenty of praise for sites off Bali, including the mola
> > > molas of Nusa Penida, but it's supposed to be pretty cold there and I
> > > understand the '99 El Nino devastated the shallow corals. The closest
> > > I got to diving Bali was diving the "Gillies" of Lombok which were
> > > almost bare of coral, though we were treated to a huge school of
> > > bumphead parrots.
> >
> > Sorry boys, you're wrong about Bali. There's much more than Penida and
> > Lombok.
> > Diving there is great (Gilimanuk, Menjangan, Tulamben, Amed , ...).
> > Take a look at my last report and pics :http://www.aquaphot.fr/Bali2007.htm
>
> Hey, I was the one disagreeing with Kessler. However, there are more
> notable locales in Indonesia with better diving support. I had looked
> into a "diving safari" like the one you went on, and even
> understanding that they will schlep all your luggage and gear from
> place to place and that the Balinese ladies carry your tanks to the
> water on their heads, it still sounds like a lot of work compared to a
> nice relaxing liveaboard or dedicated dive resort, especially when
> you're toting the same bulky camera system that I am (except that I
> have an much heavier metal housing for my D200).
>
> I was in Bali once before, on the way to and from a liveaboard to
> Komodo. I'll be there again whenever I get around to visiting
> Wakatobi. Maybe I'll try to get a few dives in then, since I've
> already land-toured the island enough as far as I'm concerned.
> Otherwise it will forever exist in my mind like Guam, a place with
> interesting diving in its own right, but more practically used as a
> stopover to somewhere even better.

On Apr 4, 5:22*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:

> I wouldn't mind returning to Bali for a couple of days on the way to somewhere
> else. *My last trip of a week stopover there took me all the way out to the far
> end of the island to the water palace at Tirtaganga...I took a dip in a kind of
> rustic swimming pool that was fed from a lion's mouth...the water, after having
> washed over me...went on down to nourish the rice paddies below that were
> terraced far as the eye could see.

Sounds like a sure way to get hepatitis, ringworm, typhoid, and maybe
even that fluke that swims up the urethra. No thank you.

> Also, there was the distant "tinkle" of bells powered by a water treadmillwhich
> caused me to mumur.."this Bali is one magical place!" *Or at least it was so at
> Tirtaganga and I'm happy to have made the effort to go and stayover there....and
> its far enough away from the tourist haunts of Ubud, not to mention Kuta and
> Denpassar or Sanur. *Most tourist to Bali ever know of it.

My recollections are of our van driver dodging around the multitudes
of scooters in the heavy traffic, dodging stray dogs in the towns, the
smell of plastic water bottles burning in piles wherever we went, and
at some stops, hordes of kids and sometimes older people all fighting
to sell you sarongs and pencils. The sarongs I can understand - we
bought lots as gifts - but why would we want to buy pencils?

My favorite spots were the monkey forest and our hotel, where we could
escape the madness.

Greg Mossman a utilisé son clavier pour écrire :
> On Apr 4, 5:22*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>
(snip)
>
> My recollections are of our van driver dodging around the multitudes
> of scooters in the heavy traffic, dodging stray dogs in the towns, the
> smell of plastic water bottles burning in piles wherever we went, and
> at some stops, hordes of kids and sometimes older people all fighting
> to sell you sarongs and pencils. The sarongs I can understand - we
> bought lots as gifts - but why would we want to buy pencils?
>
> My favorite spots were the monkey forest and our hotel, where we could
> escape the madness.

Yep. Of course all this is true ; the "tourist" part of Bali : Sanur -
Jimbaran - Legian - Kuta, the towns of Denpasar and Ubud are
overcrowded, dirty, noisy, ... But you can still enjoy the real Bali in
the north and the north-east, from Pemuteran to Amed (with the
exception of the part around Singaraja), and that's where some of the
best diving spots are.
Well, never mind.
Anyway, I'm planning to do that "diving safari" again next october ...
I just love it !
P.

--
(pas de plouf pour m'écrire - no plouf to write)
Site Photo ss. marine : http://www.aquaphot.fr/

I think Greg's problem is that he only visited the tourist traps and that is why he
has a very jaundiced view of Bali...jaundiced -- meaning "sickly yellow"

Greg Mossman wrote:

> On Apr 4, 5:22 am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't mind returning to Bali for a couple of days on the way to somewhere
> > else. My last trip of a week stopover there took me all the way out to the far
> > end of the island to the water palace at Tirtaganga...I took a dip in a kind of
> > rustic swimming pool that was fed from a lion's mouth...the water, after having
> > washed over me...went on down to nourish the rice paddies below that were
> > terraced far as the eye could see.
>
> Sounds like a sure way to get hepatitis, ringworm, typhoid, and maybe
> even that fluke that swims up the urethra. No thank you.
>
> > Also, there was the distant "tinkle" of bells powered by a water treadmill which
> > caused me to mumur.."this Bali is one magical place!" Or at least it was so at
> > Tirtaganga and I'm happy to have made the effort to go and stayover there...and
> > its far enough away from the tourist haunts of Ubud, not to mention Kuta and
> > Denpassar or Sanur. Most tourist to Bali ever know of it.
>
> My recollections are of our van driver dodging around the multitudes
> of scooters in the heavy traffic, dodging stray dogs in the towns, the
> smell of plastic water bottles burning in piles wherever we went, and
> at some stops, hordes of kids and sometimes older people all fighting
> to sell you sarongs and pencils. The sarongs I can understand - we
> bought lots as gifts - but why would we want to buy pencils?
>
> My favorite spots were the monkey forest and our hotel, where we could
> escape the madness.

On Apr 2, 5:00*am, Daniel Kessler <dkess...@pop.cybernex.net> wrote:
> this post has the earmarks of a "puff-piece" by some owner/promoter...
>
> While I've had two trips to Indonesia (mostly off Monado) ...I've never
> heard anyone praise sites off Bali. *Bali is certainly worth a visit --
> spent five days there traveling around the island.
>
>
>
> albeesat...@yahoo.com wrote:
> > Anewdivesites has been found in north of Bali. We are the onlydive
> > operator that offers it magnificent underwater sites.
>
> >www.lovinadive.com--While Bali offers great diversity ofdivesites,
> > KerobokanDiveSites offers unique within Bali. It is the verynew
> > definition of muck-diving and shore Diving, rich coral reefs, no depth
> > to speak of, it is in basically asitefor macro-photographers and for
> > the occasional recreational diver looking for something different from
> > the norm.
>
> > KerobokanDiveSites contains many rare macro-photography subjects
> > that include nudibranches, dragonets (including both the colorful
> > Mandarin fish and Picture Dragonet), abundant seahorse/pipefish,
> > unusual scorpion fish, frogfish, eels, and many, many other organisms.
> > Yellows hills of corral ( Kaang Kuning ) is enewdivesites.
>
> > Location: Kerobokan Village, Close with Lovina
> > Type ofdive: Shore and Boat diving (outriggers large enough for 2-3
> > divers, Reef-diving)
> > Visibility: 15 - 25 metres
> > Current: Zero to mild current
> > Depths: 10 - 40 metres (average depth 18 meters)
> > Min Level: Introductory
> > Highlights: Fantastic coral formations, density and variety of fish,
> > all level will suitable, 1 Day Intro Adventure Diving Program. Great
> > snorkelingsite.
> > Conditions: Black sand beach sloping into the water, coral reefs, and
> > Muck Diving
>
> > You should not miss this out if you aredivelover..www.lovinadive.com- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Dear Sir,

I am from Bali - North Bali, Lovina dive is based in lovina north
Bali. I would like to introduce a dive sites that might be you guys
wants to know. There was no feeling to promote anything fake, now me
and Lovina dive centre plan to propose to the government about coral
reef in Kerobokan Village. the dive master of lovina dive has observe
and they had plenty of guest and student doing dive in that place.
FYI, dive centres in bali has no promoting this place.

However now the local fisherman trying to hunt fish not in proper way.
Last time we escorted guest for night dives, we saw so many fishes and
turtles. We dont want damage will happen to this place.

Please ignore if you thinks that this post was spam.

with all the best wishes.