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Kupang, Indonesia (by Allen Jones)
Got some shots of lime green Ambon scorpions and also pictured dragonets. All the sites can run hot and cold at any time. If you go here, request room at the "new location" about 5 minutes from the dive shop. A family on the property cooked for us. We did 3 day and 1 night dives for two days; about right!
This has been provided by 'Seasabres', they are a diveclub based in California and can be contacted on Diveboats@seasabres.com
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We
spent 12 days on the "Kararu" leaving out of Kupang, West Timor
and went north to dive Alor, Pantar and Wetar islands.
This area is only visited on two trips/year by Kararu and possible by
one other boat. It is very rarely dove and is the most pristine area we
have seen in 24 years of diving. Water was 76-80F and usually clear. It
rained every day. Macro was very good. Very few fish over 6" were seen
and we can not understand why, as there was minimal fish traps and no
bombing where we were! Best critter was a brick red juvenile Rinopeaus
with no fin openings. The 135' Kararu had 16 divers and a crew of 18,
plus two dive masters/ program directors . The food and service were outstanding
and we would dive on Kararu again. Best dive sites were the Pertimina
pier at Alor and Benga-Beng beach on Wetar. Depending on our
location, we had to time our dives with the tides as they can get very
fierce in this area. Didn't even try for "Kal's Dream". This area
is not for beginners. We then went to Secret Bay on north western
coast of Bali for two days with Dive-N-Dive. Water was 76F and we were
fore warned that "some of the fish have left!" Didn't see any Mimics and
few ghost pipe fish, but it was still good macro.
