Labuan Bajo – Port Scenes
During my two months in Labuan Bajo I got up early almost every day, usually by 5:30, to walk down through its busy port. There we boarded the dive boat and headed off on the long trip to Komodo National Park for a day of …
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Labuan Bajo – The Nadelyn K
I spent an afternoon photographing boats and activity in the Labuan Bajo port from which our dive boat operated. The port can accommodate several large cargo vessels or ferries on its outermost wharf, along with a hundred or more smaller wooden fishing and tourist boats …
Singapore Night Scenes
I had to leave Indonesia in the middle of my divemaster training in order to renew my visa, having inadvertently entered the country with a 30-day visa that couldn’t be renewed. Actually, this turned out to be a good thing, as it provided for an …
Bali – A Walk Along Rice Paddies in Ubud
After two months of diving in Indonesia’s Komodo National Park for my Divemaster certification I leave Labuan Bajo, Flores and take a 1.5-hour flight on a prop plane to the island of Bali, where my return flights to the US will originate. I’ll have an …
Komodo – Tatawa Kecil – Beautiful Corals
This is the second of two posts with photographs from a dive at Tatawa Kecil, in Komodo National Park. The dive was on the west side of this small island, in the photo below, during a transition of tidal currents. As I noted in the …
Komodo – Tatawa Kecil – The Surf From Below
This is the first of two posts sharing underwater photography from one particularly nice dive at Tatawa Kecil, in Komodo National Park. We were able to dive on the west side of the small island (see the photo just below) during a transition of tidal …
Komodo – Siaba Besar in B&W
On the west side of Siaba Besar island in Komodo National Park there’s a dive site that has a sandy bay and a big reef formation extending up from the deeper adjacent channel. Green sea turtles abound at this site, and it’s easy to spot …
Komodo – Manta Rays at Mawan
Manta rays are large, graceful creatures – elegant and ballet-like in their movements. Their wingspan is up to 18 feet (5.5 meters) in the manta species that is most often found in Komodo National Park (Manta alfredi). On a dive earlier this week we were …
Komodo – On the Dive Boat
I came to this part of Indonesia, near Komodo National Park, to get a scuba divemaster certification with instructors Sylvain (French) and Samira (Swiss), whom I met last year on a dive vacation. The park, a World Heritage Site consisting of islands and surrounding seas, …
Labuan Bajo – Fish Market
At the point where Labuan Bajo’s main street turns a corner along the waterfront there is a fish market in a large open building. Adjacent to the market new construction and street improvements are beginning to transform the old-village nature of the area. A new …