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Posted By: elheffe
Activity: Shopping
Country: Indonesia
City: Bali
Ubud
January, 2007

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 An artisan village with lots of local artists peddling their craft. We found a great painting here for US$100. Similar size original would be $500-$800 in a flea market. Found a guy who made a custom wood hand carved picture frame for less than $15. And he did it in one day! Lots of talented artist and you will surely find something in Ubud.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gili Islands - Meno Wall
December, 1997

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 2nd dive at this site. Mom doing well. Explored wall. Dropped to 20m at late stage of dive for ~2 min. Safety stop OK. Nice final dive of 1997. Mom - useful buddy helped locate tangled console for safety stop. -- saw large lobster.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gilis - Shark Point
December, 1997

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 An enormous grouper, 2 turtles. Second time at this site - right next to Andy's Reef -. Mom left after 15 minutes. Too bad; decent dive anyways though visibility not great. No sharks. Never got to sandy flats.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gilis - Soft Coral Reef
December, 1997

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 ~5 giant turtles! Very nice! Also saw a shark, in distance. Mellow drift dive.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gili Islands - Giant Clam
December, 1997

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 Saw three white-fin reef sharks, one of them ~2m long. Saw the giant clam, but didn't find it so giant. Nice dive, hilly, sandy terrain with some nice coasting.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gili's - Meno Wall
December, 1997

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 Wall with 18 meter bottom. Decent fish variety and visibility. Drift dive. 3kg weight good. Saw: cuttlefish, huge sea-cucumber-like thing, but colorful + much bigger, with contracting orifice...
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Lombok
Gili Islands - Andys Reef
December, 1997

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 Descent to vast stag-horn coral bed, then to sandy area ~20m depth. At around 30m depth, solitary white-tip shark (~1meter length). Problems starting the dive too late (too many people!), but a nice dive anyway.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Bali
Menjangan - West Wall
December, 1997

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 Incredible dive! Mystical experience at one point - looked over and saw Dad - totally surreal. Awesome - underwater cave at ~15 meters. (Later note) - suspect serious case of narcosis on this dive given my profile. Well worth it though!
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Bali
Menjangan Island
December, 1997

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 East wall = left wall from beach chute. Vertical wall ~ 60 meters. Incredible fish and coral! -- Attacked by trigger fish while snorkeling to the boat. Passed over its breeding ground. A little disconcerting.
Posted By: dredog
Activity: Diving
Country: Indonesia
City: Bali
Pemuteran Beach
December, 1997

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 Christmas day beach dive with Mom and Dad. Mom doing nice controlled descents, breathing-based neutral buoyancy. She pointed out solitary lionfish on sand flats. Saw huge clam with purple inside. Also a group of three sand-sifting 'catfish'.