A beautiful day in January in the Komodo National Park
I was in Komodo Island for 11 days cruise and had an other fabulous trip with a fantastic group of people leaded from the United States from Jack and Sue Drafahl. http://jackandsuedrafahl.com/
The trip Started in Bima and ended in Labuan Bajo.
Bima once again turned out to be an excellent critters spot, with Wonderpus and Mimic Octopus, many nudibranches, beautiful thorny sea horses , 3 Giant frogfish and many more critters every few meters into the dive.
Even though the dive at Manta Alley was without Manta Rays, we had a great time over there as the visibility was about 30m and we had twice a huge group of Bumped head Parrotfish.
This Mantishrimp was not shy at all
At Pink Beach it was very fishy , with groups of fusiliers been hunted by giant and the blue fin Trevally.
We dived almost 4 times a day every day and We have spent most of the time In Horse Shoe Bay.
"Cannibal Rock" in Horse Shoe Bay
A Sea Eagle hunting in horse shoe bay
In January, even though the weather conditions are not the best , underwater the South of Komodo is great to dive.
We had very warm water, with a nice 28.C and the visibility was spectacular about 25m blue waters.
The dives as usual were outstanding , with an excellent critter life also this time.
We also went several times to the beach to meet the resident Komodo Dragons of Rinca Island and we had few beautiful Sea Eagle patrolling the waters from the Sky.
The last dive of the trip was at Batu Bolong, this is a big pinnacle rising in the middle of the strait between Rinca Island and Flores. The current was smocking but on the lee side when we entered it was very easy and calm, we had a few white tip reef Sharks, a couple of big Napoleon Wrasses, Jackfish cruising back and forward a turtle eating and then swimming in the blue, thousands of Anthias and great visibility.
An excellent dive to finish our journey 
This Time I had the chance to make 4 dives with the camera and I could take some nice shots underwater as well.
A small selection of the many nudibraches that can be seen in Komodo National Park
If you like nudibraches , this is the perfect destination for you. There are an infinity of beautiful and colorful nudibranches to be seen in the Komodo National park. You could easily spend 10 days dedicating yourself to only Nudibranches.
The giant frogfish in its environment
The Frogfish above was found in “Cannibal Rock” dive site. A great dive site we have dived several time during this trip. I tried to take a shot from a bit far with the 60mm lens, not only to get the full body of the fish , but also to try to show the environment that he is living in.
By its right “leg” there was a sponge of its exact same color and size. The frog fish sit on a coral head without moving for most of the day disguising itself as a sponge confusing its predators and preys.
Myself with the Group. An other successful trip to one of the best Destinations in the world. We keep scoring 100% happy people .
A special Thanks to Jack and Sue Drafahl from Underwater Photo Adventure to have taken an other great group to Indonesia and to have given such a nice and easy to understand presentation about photo tutorials during the trip.
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And the adventure continues ………
i saw a blue ring.. did you? :p
No, But I have seen a Mosaic octopus, did you?
woohoo, a bubble shell nudi as well…haven’t seen one of those in YEARS, you lucky guy. Great post with images….
Thanks Janet, I have seen the bubble shell nudi at Torpedo Alley during a night dive. During the trip we have also seen a Mosaic Octopus (very rare) and two blue ring octopus.