Sea Rovers Dive Bali

Mucky Pirates Nights The infamous DiveMaster Wayan prepares to lure two more souls into the joys of night diving ‘Mucky Pirates Bay’.  Poor Nick and Melissa’s lives will never be the same again. Garr!!!!

Anne and her mother stayed here this month and spent a week in 'Mucky Pirates Bay' looking for critters and finding many. Here are just some of the photo's she left for me to share with the Brethren. Enjoy

Ode to pipefish by the Captain Of Muck and Pirates in the Bay be found Ghostpipefish by the bushel abound Ornate, Robust swim around with glee All await a photograph from Me Garr ! ;-) Some of the decorator crabs in Mucky Pirates Bay are getting the art of camouflage down pat. And a teeny weeny blue suckered octopus make a house in a piece of discarded pipe. To give you an idea of size my proddy stick is marked off in inches. Cunningly disguised decorator crab Nr#1 Cunningly disguised decorator crab Nr#2 I'm tiny, you can't see me, now bugger off! One of many this season. Pairing up and pretty Robust (ghostpipefish)

Ashley at Nudibase has identified our little friend below as a rare Sap-sucker - Lobiger souverbii - Fischer, 1856 Damn I guess we don't get to name it. :-( The Captain

New find or new Nudi. Still trying to find out

It was really difficult to chose 5 photo's from Teti and Harijadi as all the photo's they left here were good. But in the end I went with these. Menjangan the Caves Menjangan Island HariJadi "Pucker up Budda", Temple Garden Pipefish, Mucky Pirates Bay Mantis Shrimp, Mucky Pirates Bay Menjangan Island Pipefish at Night, Mucky Pirates Bay A something or other Nudibranch in Mucky Pirates Bay. You want to know more check out www.nudibase.com Teti on the wall at Menjangan Island Bubbles Some brilliant photo's and I look forward to the next batch. The Captain

After a tiring time predicting the world cup results Paul the Octopus takes a well earned vacation in Bali This is his mate Fred the Angler fish. Hello Fred Once again some nice finds in Mucky Pirates Bay. The Captain

Once again the dread Captain Slackbeard strikes as I catch up with the Brethrens photo's. Night diving 'Mucky Pirates Bay' this time. Carefully does it lads thats a hoard of razorfish. One false move and there'll have ya all mincemeat like in a flash. Oh No, they spotted us! Swim away, swim away...AAAAAaaaaaggh! Have they gone? Good. And here is another frogfish. A face only a mother could love. A full winged lionfish giving us the classic fish tail shot. Pretty wings though. And finally a really nice Nudibranch. And thus endeth another nice lot of images from the brethren. The Captain

Recent visit by the Green School out of the landlocked Port of Ubud, ( http://www.greenschool.org ) turned out to be a good opportunity to put the Nasty Nemo through her paces. And she handled it all with easy and space to spare. The Green School was up on a field trip to the Biorock Project. Where they learn how to electrify coral to good effect ;-) After a morning of learning and snorkeling the projects they took a break to explore a local reef (Close Encounters) where they got to see first hand what can happen when local businesses work with the village and fishing community to help protect the local marine environment in a sustainable way. The Next day they head out again this time to visit the Solar Powered Biorock offshore structures. The Biowreck and BioBoomer. The later named in honour of the once long time resident of the of the Turtle Project, run by my old mate Chris Brown just down the beach from us. Another longtime resident and local Eco warrior. Then its prepare for the ...

More photo's from the brethren. This time from Harrie & Reit Wassen who were here over November. This nicely illuminated Ornate Ghost Pipefish enjoying the night dive. Whats left at Anchor wreck, Menjangan Island. A very colourful scene of coral and somewhere in there is an octopus. Transparent Cleanie shrimp on an anemone. Really nice picture of an Octopus taking a respite next to a plastic bag in Mucky Pirates Bay. Thanks for the photo's Harrie The Captain

Yet another photographically inclined member of our ever expanding Sea Rovers Brethren has left us some memories to post. Decorator crabs are always weird things, but here in Sea Rovers own 'Mucky Pirates Bay' we do extra wierd. This, one of many, uses one of our resident upside down jellyfish as a cunning disguise. Puffer Fish and friend A friendly little Octopus on one of Dan's night dives provided a nice pose. This Octopus decided to stretch out and go for a wonder. Lionfish gliding in amongst the corals, nice warm colours on this one. Hermit crab with accompanying anenomes. And finally looking from stern to bows, 'Canyon Wreck' shows us her Booty :-) Nice Photo's Dan, look forward to seeing more on your next trip out. The Captain

Woke up and started the day with a dive and a photo. A couple of very accommodating Ornate Ghost Pipefish under the jetty in "Mucky Pirates Bay" Not a bad way to start your day. The Captain

The latest Mucky Pirates Bay photos. Been playing with Photoshop for this first one, getting an interesting sort of woodblock effect. Using the cutout feature and then a second layer high pass with threshold adjustment, you get this nice art print. Mantis shrimp playing peak a boo. That green algae behind him is all over the Mucky Pirates Bay at the moment, brought with it a couple of very interesting nudibranch though, which typically I only ever find when I don't have the camera with me :-( I like this pic! A very nice young lionfish Filefish hanging by one of our moorings. The Captain

Been incredibly busy the last few weeks with high season in full swing, so not much time to take new pics. However I did get some nice shots early in July while night diving Mucky Pirates Bay. A not cunningly disquised Tiger Sole Sand Eel, usually you only ever see their heads pocking out of a hole in the sand. But this night we got to follow him as he hunted. Teeny Weeny Lionfish One of my favourite night time critters, a Spider Decorator Crab. And last but by no means least a very pretty Anemone. More can of course be found in the Sea Rovers face book page where the reef photo albums keep expanding. Now Back to Diving ;-) The Captain