We wanted to beat the crowds, so we woke up early to check out Crystal Rock. What makes Crystal Rock so popular and famous? There are many reasons but the key reason is that it provides “crystal-clear visibility”. It’s got a mild current, and allowing people like ourselves to explore the site, which includes checking out the amazing coral encrusted pinnacles, at a pace people are comfortable with.
Just behind the main rock, we saw a large school of surgeonfish and long fin bannerfish. Think of it has a safety stop in life’s aquarium. It had large pool of white tip reef sharks to boot. This is Komodo!
Of course, this isn’t all the things that Crystal Rock has to offer. Other things can be seen as well such as macro critters like hairy squat lobsters that can be seen along the barrel sponges and the ever-so-rare pygmy seahorse. We happened to see a really bright seahorse. That was so cool! We didn’t think the dive could be any better, but we were wrong.
We found huge trevallies in a feeding frenzy in the shallow waters. They dove into their prey – several white-tipped sharks – leading to a large amount of activity before we even knew it. Everybody had a great time on the dive.
Since this was not enough - we chose to do some more dive sites as well!
Our final dive day consisted of The Lighthouse – we thought we’d see a beautiful reef loaded with life. What we didn’t expect to see what the four manta rays that were swimming over our heads. We also saw a black tip reef shark and pygmy seahorse. It was a reminder that anything could happen in Komodo. We spent the remainder of the day talking about the dive.
We also enjoyed the Gili Lawa Darat with another group of Australians in the “Extreme Beach Cleans”. The sunset along the hilltop allowed us to relax, even while we did some yoga poses on the cliff edge. We began a second day of diving at Siaba Kecil, perhaps the quickest drift dive in the whole Park. The reef sped past us. And, in the dive’s latter half we were able to relax in style, gently drifting along the coral garden and watching the hawksbill and green turtles.
Heading back to our Komodo Dive Center - as the sun slowly sank below Komodo Island, we all sat back, relaxed and enjoyed stories of this amazing day. And planned for our next ones too!
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