Down by the temple

Yesterday was a good day to pray

Sabine and Katrin hanging out at the temple gates.

Nice little Nudi rests in contemplation at the base of Buddha statue.

Hairy lobster or crab, I forget.

Vis was so so, with lots of large particles in the water but otherwise a great dive as usual.

More photo's can be found on the new Facebook page



Where I'm setting up albums for each of the divesites.
Also a good way for the Sea Rovers Brethren to keep in touch with each other and share diving stuff, photos etc.

The Captain

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Cast your votes here for young Pirate Brethren Nicola

PLEASE VOTE FOR Nicola Symberlist, Google photography competition!
I needs as many votes as i can to get to the next round.
Please click the Google-photography link and vote for Nicola Symberlist, i am the 3rd thumbnail image from the left.The one of the squid!
Thanks everyone!
Nicola x
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Sea Rovers Desktop Wallpaper

Make yourselves depressed by looking at our Pemuteran reefscape while your working on the office computer.

Enjoy

The Captain

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Canyon Wreck Revisited

Lost Pirate treasure ship found off the Pemuteran coast. (Again :-)


Pirate Brethren Bruce swimming over the decks looking for lost doubloons.


Side view


Abdul checks out the hold for valuable cargo


Guess the cargo is gone.


Her rigging amazingly still intact as Bruce cruises along her side.


Simon finds something interesting to Photograph.


Simon & Bruce coming up from the depths.


Bruce and Simon enjoying some of the most pristine coral formations to be found this side of Bali.


Bruce and Abdul (dive guide in training) exploring the shallower reefs.

Canyon Wreck was sunk some 4 years ago and is still in remarkable condition for a wooden vessel.

Again part of the still on going Reef Gardeners project.

An interesting dive at a depth of 30mtrs coming up into a beautiful coral canyon.

The Captain

Underwater Temples makes it difficult to light incense

Om Swasti Astu, as we say here in Bali.

Back when the world was younger, the ancient Sea Gods of Bali decreed that a temple should be erected in their honour at 30mtr depth (yes, even the Gods went metric). An thus it was Temple Garden was made for them all to play in.

Lighting incense is a bit of a bugger though so bring a torch instead.


Lost city of Pemuteran?


Ancient pose for happy divers....


Diver checks watch to see what century she's in.


ZOMBIE BUDDA!... Swim away, swim away.....


Deeply Deco Spirits.


Petrified sweetlipped turtle.


And finally a communion of spirits.

The facts:

Sank in 2005 as part of the still ongoing Reef Gardeners project. This little dive has become an interesting change from the reefs of Pemuteran. The often hazy vis creates a wonderfully spooky atmosphere.

Home to nudis and Electric clams, Temple Wall (or Pura Tembok) above also offers a lot of , well stuff to look at.

Personally I prefer the ancient gods story ;-)

Om Santi Santi Om.
The Captain

Close Encounters of the Wide Angle Kind

Always one of my favourite dives is Close Encounters, 12yrs on and I still enjoy diving here. Lots of coral lots of life and a good place to find leafscorpions. But not when your playing with the new wide angle.

Here are a couple of my poor attempts, please be gentle it was my first time ;-)

The Captain

New Toy for the Captain

Watch out for some cracking new photo's on this (and I'm not sponsored by Sony, wish I was :-) the Captain's new toy. Sony DSC-W300 with an Ikelite Compact housing and W20 Wide Angle lens.

With the underwater white balance setting its producing great results at depths of 30mtrs as can be seen from the soon to be posted Temple Garden and Canyon Wreck photos.

Anyone looking for something compact and full of features, manual plus auto, without breaking the bank or the baggage allowance. Then this is the toy to get. Highly recommended by the Captain.

The Captain