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Mola mola wow that is a mouthful there are two things I've always wanted to see and now I can take one of them off of my list for adventure diving. I've always wanted to see a whale shark which I think one time off the coast of Cambodia I actually did see one as I was sitting up on the top of my dive boat all I saw a large fin in the water and I said whale and then I said shark and I think that I was right both times. Yesterday while diving in Bali at Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembangan on the second of our three dives I get to get up close and personal with a mola mola we were maybe two or 3 meters away from the fish as it was being cleaned, we were in 30 meters of water so we drifted down to where the mola mola , which is sometimes called a sunfish, we were there for about three minutes and then we made our way back up to the entrance point, which at Crystal Bay what you do is say back roll in to the water and then swim over to the to the small little rock outcropping that's in the bay and you follow along until you get out into the deeper water and start looking for the mola mola, this can be a real adventure dive as sometimes the current in here is ripping so it is always a dive for advance open water or adventure divers or divers that have lots of lives in the log books were they can show that they have experience in difficult conditions because it really is not a place for a brand-new open water diver.



The diving in Bali is very much under rated I am absolutely amazed at the quality of the reef when I was in Cambodia when I was working with the Cambodia Department of Fisheries I had the opportunity of learning under the tutelage of some United Nations environmental program people that were from the University of Singapore to learn how to do line intersects transects which are called Litz which is a scientific way of measuring reefs to see how healthy they are and it's just amazing of the great majority of the reef at Nusa Lembangan and Nusa Penida what excellent shape that it's in where you have 85 -- 95% and it's up a combination of the probably 200 or 300 different types of sponges all sorts of sea valves, all sorts of fans, hard corals, soft corals and the one thing that you don't see is sea urchins which is a very good sign of a healthy reef I saw my first sea urchin yesterday which was hiding underneath a rock and I was kind of amazed to see the little fellow.

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