After what seemed like a never ending flights, we finally arrived Tuesday night to Bali Aquarium, our home base for the next two months. The export facility is located in the capital city of Bali, Denpasar, and ships corals, fish and invertebrates all over the world. Bali Aquarium is one of the pioneers of maricultured aquarium corals in Indonesia and we will be here learning more about what goes into getting corals from the source to you. Chances are if you have any coral in you home aquarium from the Indo Pacific, there’s a good chance some of them probably passed through the raceways here at Bali aquarium!
十一月是干旱季节的尾巴（提示雨来了），所以我们的主人Vincent Chalias没有延迟设置一个周末充满了红利ng. A quick (short) night’s sleep and we packed up our gear and hit the road for a three hour drive to Tulamben, on the north-east coast of Bali. Tulamben is among one of the most popular dive sites on the island, famous for the Liberty wreck, a US Army Transport ship torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1942.
We have to admit, “most popular dive site in Bali” wasn’t our idea of a good time! Nope we are on the hunt for dive sites off the beaten path. Lucky for us, Vincent has spent the better part of twenty years in Bali so he knew just where to go.
Day 1在我们的第一次潜水中，我们在图伦本（Tulamben）以西45分钟前往塔曼·塞加拉（Taman Segara Penuktukan）。这个潜水地点有趣的是，放置在9米深（30英尺）的混凝土球形人造礁结构，该结构被设计为珊瑚生长和钓鱼的地方。
塔玛·塞加拉（Tamar Segara）成立于2008年by a group of local conservationists, assisted by several NGOs including the Reef Check Foundation to protect the coastal and offshore areas of Penuktukan. Prior to 2008, the underwater site was under threat from non-local fishermen who used destructive bottom trawl nets, poison and explosives to catch fish. The group of local fishermen from Penuktukan formed the group to help protect the waters around their village.
Currently there are some 40 structures in the water with lots of large well developed colonies of branchingAcropora。We found lots of fish living in the artificial reefs including some extra inquisitive trigger fish we had to fend off during the dive.
Day 2潜水，我们在图伦本以东30分钟前往Amed。我们进行了三次潜水，两次从日本的沉船工作开始，一辆在杰梅卢克（Jemeluk）进行。沉船是一个很棒的浮潜点，因为它深3-5米（10-15英尺）。
The shipwreck is covered in corals, and schools of fish like to hide in the protective hull, so it’s easy to spend lots of time looking around all the nooks and crannies. We found a trio of yellow leaf fish, at least a dozen azoox stony coral species inside the ship, and astunning orange elephant ear coral。
In the shallow waters beyond the wreck is a garden of leather corals like肌肉菌，叶植物andSinularia，我们还发现了一个美丽的殖民地肾透透swaying with the swell in 3m (10 feet) or water. We also spotted our first peacock mantis shrimp and a red pygmy seahorse,Hippocampus bargibanti.经过浅水，底部的山坡至较深的珊瑚礁地层，约20-25 m（65-80英尺）深覆盖着海风扇，石质珊瑚和更多您可以算出的鱼。
Our last dive of the day was at Jemeluk and was one of my favorites. The dive started with a longer swim out over a sandy bottom covered in garden eels, then the shallow reef quickly turns into a sharp drop off down to 35m (115 feet). At the bottom we found some beautifully photogenic tunicates,mycediumsandOxypora。沿着墙壁，我们还发现了一些美丽的粉红色正方形Anthias和大殖民地Acropora从壁架上伸出援手。
Day 3带我们去Kubu开一小段Tulamben东部。Kubu starts with a rubble bottom with lots of little critters hiding amounts the rocks. We found lots of Rhodactis mushroom anemones,montipora, Pocillopora，，，，and large anemones with some fantastic and bold maroon clownfish.
Kubu is another sloping reef and was our deepest dive of the weekend; we had a max depth of 36m (120 feet) and it was one of those dive you wish you could stay all day in the water. The slope was full of micro habitats covered with large fields ofAnacropora让位Acropora Carduus(red dragon acropora) We especially loved watching the school of sergeant major damselfish darting around as 20 or more trevallies shot through the water chasing the school.
那天下午，我们回到丹帕萨尔（Denpasar）度过了一天，需要休息一天，并有很多时间来筛选我们的照片并进行报告！关于巴厘岛水族馆，尤其是珊瑚农场，将会有更多的东西，以及从这里到达所有人的珊瑚的需要。
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