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Derawan - Kalimantan Diving |
 Derawan located near from Balikpapan, Kalimantan. Derawan island have much terrain varied, from walls and fringing reef to caverns, big Green Turtles (Chelonia mydas), whitetip, leopard and nurse sharks, schooling barracudas, napoleon wrasses, cuttle fish, spanish mackerel, jacks and batfishes, and ornamentalreef fishes hang out in record densities and diversity.
At the base of the wooden pilings, which are swarmed with schooling
bait fish, there is wealth of reef fish, big and small. In five meters
of water diver might find crocodilefish, juvenile boxfish, nudibranchs,
ribbon eels and more common angelfish and Octopus. The reef slopes
gently down to 20-plus meters, where it is common to see turtles,
schools of humphead parrotfish and reef sharks.
Here I have found some of the most mind-boggling and bizarre critters i
have seen in years; luminous multi coloured dumpling squids, pairs of 3
ft (1 meters) crocodile fishes, finger-sized purple sea horses and
unidentified species of worms, tunicates and dwarf scorpiofish.
The quality of diving around Derawan is indeed what divers dream about
I have been back four times and i will be back again, again and again.
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