AMED 2 DIVES

The dive site Pyramids is just a short 10 minute boat ride away in a traditional jukung.  The site is made up of numerous artificial reefs that serve as home to an incredible diversity of aquatic life.  In the sand that stretches all along the reef, between 12-25metres deep, you will find dozens of pyramid-shaped artificial reefs that are magnificently colonized by a multitude of fish: titan triggerfish, damsel fish, trumpet fish, blue spotted and kuhl’s stingrays, garden eels, and nudibranch.  Keep an eye out for the less common but quite amusing animals such as leaf scorpionfish, ghost pipefish, frog fish, and other species of pipefish.   
Here we can also encounter the pink pigmy seahorse (Hippocampus bargibanti Whitley), which is endemic to Indonesia, and camouflages itself against gorgonians of the same color and texture as its body.  Measuring only about 1cm in size, it is very difficult to find!  Being a very delicate fish, we ask that our divers approach the seahorse gently and carefully, turn off the light of their torch, and avoid kicking up too much sand.  For those of you who enjoy the larger animals, there is also a chance to run in to turtles, reef sharks, and small stingrays.

Just on the outer edge of the coral reef, you will enter the water after a quick 5 min boat ride in a jukung traditional boat.  The current here is often calm, and the dive is conducted along a vertical wall with a maximum depth of 40m.

Gradually you will make your way along the steep wall, passing giant and ancient gorgonians that cover massive rocks, multicolored fish darting about in the blue, trevally hunting for their next meal, and observing you from beneath your fins is the tiny pink pygmy seahorse, at a minuscule height of 6mm. 

 You finish your dive over a shallow plateau bathed in soft sunlight.  From overhead, the shadow of the jukung awaits your bubbles…already, it’s time to surface.

Lipah is a quiet bay located 3km from Jemeluk and can be accessed by road. The wreck, about 20 meters long, is located 15m from the beach, between a sublime coral reef ans sandy slope. Lipah or Japanese Wreck owes its names to the presence of Japanese-style toilets, but the history of this wreck is little known. It rests between 6 and 12 meters,and it’s listed as the dive site, but because of its shallow depth, its popular with divers. Its waters are rich in nutrients and there is an abundance of marine life, due to an area of strong current along the reef. The wreck lies on sand and visibility can be reduced if the weather conditions are not at their best.