Bali statue

On a recent trip to Talumben we can across this little underwater temple. The chrinoid position made it look like interseting

D90 F8 200th

Great pic.

We've got similar statues at Padangbai's Jepun dive site. The crossed arms of the Buddhas always seem to offer perfect shelter to scorpionfish. Nice photo opp...

A statue garden was recently started on another site of Padangbai. A few statues and large tables were placed underwater. The idea is that anyone can join on the project, sink their own statue and have it become a habitat for fish and an attraction for divers. The first statues sank a month ago already have Crinoidea, tunicates, crabs and a few fish living on them...