In Belongas,  South Lombok this week we had been visiting the ever so graceful sea cobras that mainly hang around our dive site “ The Cathedral “. That is not to say that we don’t spot them elsewhere…” The Magnet “is another home for them where we can spot up to 6 in a dive.

At “ The Cathedral “ we generally almost all the time descend directly on to at least one sea cobra, sometimes it can be up to seven.

This week with the couple of day trips we have had, as we descend dropping down to the maximum depth of 35m along the wall of the south side, we have had the cobras swimming up towards us, along our bellies and arms and back down again. They are extremely playful, loving and have fun with the bubbles from which we create by simply breathing.

An awful lot of the time divers can feel uncomfortable with how close they get but for sure they will do us no harm. Just relax and enjoy a sea creature that is interested to play with you.

Other than the sea cobras we have been diving with still our resident white tip reef sharks, a couple of hammerheads, green sea turtle, trevally’s, a range of lionfish and something that we don’t see so often is the honeycomb moray eel and a big one at that!

As for the smaller creatures we have spotted rock mover wrasse, leaf scorpion fish, hairy frogfish, skeleton shrimp and much much more!!!

Belongas truly has everything!!