project :: r!ch fArmers :: secret seraya

sounds nice eh?

i wish i had the chance to pamper myself and stay in the famous secret seraya resort. 1 of the most beautiful ones in tulamben. the closest we got was when their traditional boat drops us off at their beach to do shore dive. so mona and i were just drooling from the garden of the resort…as some lucky asses suntan by the beautiful pool and chilling out in their very nicely landscaped environment….

oh well…next time….ONE DAY….i will stay there…ONE DAY….

erm..yeah we tried to push the boat out but the men were so fast and steady with their footwork on the very rough beach!!

menyun (the land frog fish)

my lover at 28m deep.. 😉

this is how narrow this traditional boat is (i can never remember what it is called)…there’s bigger version which we took at padang bai. this is like the single-man-width version…

i was already drifting too far away…

lion fish…just 1?

i think this is called the bumble bee…can see? not a scam…it’s really there..

this has to be seen on video!! i never really think that a sea urchin can walk so fast!!.. :O

and the colemani shrimps that’s getting free ride and free food out of it…(yeah these shrimps feeds on the sea urchin) the colours are so vibrant!!

who’s there?

little miss pinky frog fish…

a nice little community of many things living under the rocks…

mini pretty eel…

you can only find nice flat worms underwater…

friends?

and you can only find beautiful slugs underwater too…(nudibranch)

LUNCHTIME!! but our food was infested with ants…stranded outside secret seraya resort. where we could only watch the guests there slurp some umbrella drinks…*sigh*..

some ferns that got stuck to my suit…feels like velcro…

an orange seahorse welcomes us as we begin our 2nd dive at seraya house reef…

this is actually a kind of shrimp!!

big cuttle fish..(changed color one)

small cuttle fish..(original white color)

patterned eel…

running away!!

flabelina…beautiful…(a kind of nudibranch)…

juvenile lionfish…so cute!! it looks like a spiky nemo to me.. 😛

when she doesn’t love me at 28m…she’s usually floating above me..waiting for me to pull her on her weight belt..hahaha.. 😛

james bond girl?…all she needs is swing her wet hair… 😉
maybe in slow motion…

my new rashguard with red apples!!

our tanks of survival…

wish this moment can last…

project :: r!ch fArmers :: into the sea

the mission continues underwater.

mission guide :: menyun

he’s one interesting character..with a beautiful wife. he makes diving less serious even though we have to observe the usual standard safety procedures. or rather….he makes it easier to remember these mundane details. my mission best-friend-forever-A…mona was taking her advanced open water. yeah..ADVANCED manz…don’t play play… :O

last year we were here…with the other interesting character, sangut. he was great and cool as well!! and he had certified mona for her open water course. but he has left to pursue a better career opportunity on a live-on-board in komodo. so cool!!

padang bai.
about an hour drive from sanur. where the restaurant’s food is one of the best. there’s a ferry terminal there that takes people to other parts of indonesia. apparently to lompok for example.

dive sites : jepun and blue lagoon…

doing a refresher at the padang bai restaurant…though all we wanted was to order lunch.. 😛 the few times when menyun is very serious about his job..hehehe…ok, he’s always very serious and strict with safetly procedures. he just makes it a lot easier to absorb into our holidaying minds…

checking and preparing our equipment to bring on the boat..

out to the sea we go!! woohoooooooooo!!

divesite : jepun

first to get into the water. oooooh..how i miss this feeling..nice.. 🙂

mona gets into the water for the first time without lenses!!! thanks to the speedy recovery of her recent lasik operation!!! 😀 😀 😀

the pair of shoes i haven’t wore for a year…i still like it pink..

ananome crab

a pink frog fish!! my favourite family of fishies…this one is HUGE..bigger than my palm’s height..

mantis shrimp….a hiding one…

another frog fish!! a black one…another HUGE one too!! now you can see its webbed front legs..

divesite : blue lagoon

a pair of white scorpion leaf fish!!

another scorpion leaf fish..a reddish one..

a very beautifully camouflaged frog fish. ok..it’s beautiful in its ugly ways…this one is quite small. but i was happy to still find it. it’s always their beady eyes that give them away…

another scorpion leaf fish..

a moray eel!!

a blue spotted stingray…and no!! we can’t bbq this one..

another HUGE frog fish..

a family of other kind clown fish hiding in the ananome..

i am quite lucky to find another BIG frog fish just before i surface..a black one!! i find the black ones most sexy and mysterious…it’s really solid black. the color looks so saturated i can feel it’s really 100% K on the color picker.

the real clown fish family in the real ananome..

heading back to land..for some replenishment…

the lunch that awaits us…NASI CAMPUR!!! there’s anything and everything…yummmmmmz..