Last week Wednesday, I arrived to start my 4 weeks Gili Air Divemaster Internship. After my arrival, I went to the dive shop where I met George and my new Instructor for the next few weeks, Frauke “Kay” who also speaks German! The first day I just went for fun dives with Kay as I…
This week, our dive guide Andy was proofing his ability to spot the smallest and most amazing creatures you can find here on the Gili Islands like winged pipefish, hairy shrimps, ghost pipefish and some amazing looking nudibranchs. And of course, the usual encounters with black tip reef sharks, white tip reef sharks and some…
This week, World Oceans Day meant that our staff Andy, Hery and Frauke “Kay” were doing a reef clean up, and within a 60 minutes dive we collected more than 3 big mesh bags full of rubbish. It was a geeat dive as well because during the clean up we found loads of juvenile fishes…
We broke a new turtle record this week – on Tina’s two discover scuba dives we saw in total over 20 turtles as the Gili’s lived up to its reputation for turtle-mania!! Before her first ever dive, she told her instructor Kay that she would be very happy to see at least one turtle. Thought…
This week, we were happy that we could show our customers a wide range of aquatic life. We had some white tip reef sharks hiding underneath an outcropping rock, our Instructor Kuss was very lucky to see some cute Juvenile Eagle Rays with his students at our dive site “Bounty”. And we also found some…
We started this week with a beach clean-up. In a short period, we filled two and a half bags of rubbish. We try to do this now at least once a week to help keeping Gili Air beautiful. Helpers are of course always welcome! Besides this, this week we had quite a few customers from…
This week on Gili Air you are not only waking up to sunshine and blue sky but even the diving conditions are getting better and better with every day. Slowly but surely is the season starting here and we are getting busier. We had a few customers from China, USA, Singapore, Finland, Austria, Ireland, France, Russia…
This week in South Lombok our favourite find was this little painted frogfish running around on the sand! It has not been the best week for the visibility but that has not stopped the boys going on a super macro hunt, and Alice from the U.K. joined us for a few dives to help in…