Lissenung or Walindi?

Thanks Allison, awesome reply, nice pictures! Actually I am going to the highlands before the FeBrina trip, but I think I will leave the 300mm home anyway, because 300 doesn't get me far on those birds at all... I saw a whole tree full of Birds of Paradise last year outside Wagu village on the Sepik and trying to shoot them with a 300mm lens was one of the most frustrating experiences on that trip... "so close, yet so far away"... so I kind of decided that I will stick to fish and give up on the idea of birds (not wanting another reason to spend way too much money on yet another lineup of "specialty" lenses).

Very exciting about the Hippocampus Denise. I have yet to create a sort of decent image of a pygmy seahorse, maybe it will finally happen

100 ft viz is in my standars totally awesome. Diving here in the VI, I consider a 100 ft day a good day!

Oh by the way, did you see any Rhinopias? &

We went to a spot on the south shore where they were supposed to be, but came up dry. They are not common at all in Kimbe area. Nothing like Lembeh. Sorry. You can find foo manchus, though.

The south shore has many of the same great critters as Lembeh. Saw a mimic on every dive on one site. I missed that nice black sand, though. So much easier to get good exposures on!

I'm writing in this topic cause it is about the same place we are planning to go to.

What are the best places in Kimbe bay area to see some pelagic fish?

My wife always wanted to go to PNG and i will for sure visit the wrecks (zero and so on) but I'm not a big muck/macro fan

We decided to go on Star dancer for 10 days trip in october, cause it goes to Fathers and we prefer liveaboards,

but are there also some places with shore boat access for dives where I can take pictures of some bigger stuff

(we were thinking about Walindi for another week)

and we are staying in PNG area for 3 weeks total and i want to use it to maximum without to many location changes - its always a lost diving

Bart

I'm writing in this topic cause it is about the same place we are planning to go to.

 

What are the best places in Kimbe bay area to see some pelagic fish?

 

My wife always wanted to go to PNG and i will for sure visit the wrecks (zero and so on) but I'm not a big muck/macro fan

 

We decided to go on Star dancer for 10 days trip in october, cause it goes to Fathers and we prefer liveaboards,

but are there also some places with shore boat access for dives where I can take pictures of some bigger stuff

 

(we were thinking about Walindi for another week)

and we are staying in PNG area for 3 weeks total and i want to use it to maximum without to many location changes - its always a lost diving

 

 

Bart

We recently returned from a trip to PNG. We spent a week at Walindi followed by 10 days on Star Dancer. I'm attaching links to trip reports on each. We saw some big stuff in Kimbe Bay at Bradford Shoals and Inglis Shoals but more once we got out to Father's Reef. I'm attaching links to trip reports. FWIW, one of the other divers on Star Dancer travelled on to Lissenung and Tawali afterwards. She was dissapointed by the diving at Lissenung and very happy with Tawali.

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/pacific-i...-i-walindi.html

http://www.scubaboard.com/forums/pacific-i...tar-dancer.html

Tank you very much for the quick reply

Very nice report some nice photos too.

So it looks like the fathers is the best dive site for me in there.

And I'm considering to skip Walindi after Sky Dancer and try some other place in PNG than kimbe.

Was the Zero wreck available from Liveaboard?

Thanks again

Bart

Tank you very much for the quick reply

Very nice report some nice photos too.

 

So it looks like the fathers is the best dive site for me in there.

And I'm considering to skip Walindi after Sky Dancer and try some other place in PNG than kimbe.

Was the Zero wreck available from Liveaboard?

Thanks again

Bart

I don't think we dove the zero from Star Dancer but the boat spends 1 to 2 days in Kimbe bay so there's no reason they couldn't dive it.