pics from Bali

4 of us flew to Bali from los angeles for just over a week of Gado-gado, sarangs, and great diving.

We visited padang bai, nua penida (via boat from padang bai), amed and Tulamben, and filled our memory cards many times. Mantas, jacks, barracudas, and dozens of nudibranch species let to very good times. We perfected the underwater call "Nudies.. Alert.. Nudies.. Alert..", saying it many times to each other.

It was my 3rd time to bali, but it was just as enjoyable as ever. I was overjoyed to be able to show around my 3 friends, all bali first-timers.

After diving we filled up on banana pancakes and Bintang on many occasions.

Conditions and weather were perfect, except for some strong currents at Nusa Penida. We even lucked out and were able to dive the famous "tepekong canyon", but the large mola I saw there 2 years ago was somewhere else.

Feel free to visit my Bali underwater photo gallery, I hope you enjoy the shots.

Here's a few of my favorites

Flutemouth

Cuttlefish over the reef

display of the male sand diver

Glassfish face-off

local SeaHorse

Jacks creating a swim-through

Nice stuff Scott, I really like sand diver pic.

Yes, the sand diver is really great!

thanks alot escape, mshohman.

It was pretty amazing watching the sanddiver swimming around with all his women, flashing them his "display" every few minutes, but very hard to get close to them.

Thanks for sharing these Scott. Great stuff. The sanddiver and glassfish shots are truly wonderous.

Cheers,

Steve

Lovely, lovely work.

Great shots, the sand diver and flutemouth (nice use of DOF on that). And I am always a sucker for seahorses ....

Wow, excellent. I want to go back......wah....

I especially like the sandiver, but all are great

The first 3 are incredible.

The lighting on that first shot is stunning

Cal

thanks alot Steve, jeremy, RDrew, Scott for the nice comments. Scott, have you done some diving in Bali?

thanks Vazu - you have to get out with us for some local dives sometime.

hey Cal - thanks alot - looking forward to seeing more of your photos soon.

Scott