This week we have been diving Senggigi to explore the dive sites just off from the shore a short boat ride away, and let me tell you what amazing dive’s we have been having!! Senggigi has not been dived much by anyone up now actually so it really is an adventure of exploration. The water is warm, clear; we have a selection of both soft and hard corals surrounding our beautiful big bommies on massive plateaus.
The diversity of sea life in Senggigi really did blow me away and I have to say my favourite part was that on nearly all the whip coral I found the truly magnificent Anker’s whip coral shrimp (Pontonides Ankeri).
These shrimps are generally quite small and extremely tricky to find, you really have to look hard to make them out. The colours are so bright; I saw both the green and the orange varieties.
I absolutely love them!!
Among our friends we also saw tons and tons of nudibranch’s, on the first dive within 10 minutes we must have spotted a total of 8 different kinds. There were flat worms scattered around, turtle’s came to say hi, squat lobsters, painted spiny lobsters, moray eels, skeleton shrimps, anemone crabs, boxer crabs…the list goes on!!
It truly has been wonderful diving in Senggigi. We are excited to continue our discoveries and get the word out there to fellow divers that Senggigi is a gold mine of diving variety!
