Nusa Lembongan

    Nusa Lembongan, Bali, Indonesia. July 2008.

    Growing algae at Nusa Lembongan

    I'll take you back a few weeks in July 2008. Not quite in Bali, but right next door. A little further southeast, on the small island of Nusa Lembongan. A place I loved, where almost all the inhabitants are seaweed growers.
    Dance with the moonfish

    Dance with the moonfish

    I can not resist the pleasure of showing you on video the dance of the mola-mola (and, of course, the mola-mola), after having (finally) met this big moon fish in the waters of Nusa Penida. 
    Sunset over Agung volcano and Jemeluk bay, near Amed. (Bali, Indonesia, July 2008.)

    Bali, it's over

    Among my most beautiful memories of Bali: the sunsets on the Agung volcano in Amed and the molas-molas, gigantic moon-fishes crossed off Nusa Penida ...
    Sunset on Jungut Batu beach. Nusa Lembogan, Bali. July 2008.

    Tropical Melancholy in Nusa Lembongan

    I'm in a melancholy mood tonight. I leave Nusa Lembongan to return to Kuta, Bali. The return is approaching. I console myself with a beautiful sunset on the bay of Jungut Batu ...
    Walking on the beach is tiring

    Walking on the beach is tiring

    Yes, yes, I swear! It's exhausting to walk up and down this beach. From the losmen (small hotel) to the dive-shop (dive shop), then the dive-shop to the restaurant, the restaurant to the bar, then the bar to the losmen ... Crevant, I tell you!
    Wayan and I take the pose, at the landing, after the meeting with the mola-mola at Crystal Bay. (Nusa Penida, Bali, July 2008)

    Mola-mola, the return

    Eh yes ! I am a little lucky. I saw a mola-mola today at Crystal Bay again. One time is not customary this morning: excellent visibility and little current, both for this beautiful first dive, and for the second, Toyah Pakeh Bay.
    Mola-mola or moonfish, in Crystal Bay, Nusa Penida. Bali, July 2008.

    I swam with a mola-mola

    That's it !!! Finally ! I met him! Today in Crystal Bay. I'm happy, happy, happy! My new friend is called mola-mola, or moon fish.
    Algae fields in the Jungut Batu cove. Nusa Lembogan, Bali. July 2008.

    Lembongan, seaweed and waves

    Four days already, I'm in Nusa Lembongan, a small island southeast of Bali. Atmosphere very peaceful, as I like, not too crowded with tourists ...
    A manta ray emerges in blue fog. Manta Point, Nusa Penida. Bali.

    The ballet of mantas

    Oh dear ! Not yet had the time to tell all my dives in Amed, that already, I attack those of Nusa Lembongan. And no half measure: I take you directly to Manta Point !!!