In Reply to: any recommendations for snorkling? posted by craigl on Tuesday, 7. June 2005 at 12:28 Bali Time:
We have just come back from four days snorkling at Pemuteran. Beautiful fantastic!
It is right up in the North west corner and takes a little over three hours to get therr but is well worth it, up a bit from Lovina. We arrived 29th and left on the 2nd so about the same time that Maggs was at Amed.
You take a boat and guide out to Melgean (my guide books have gone back to Library not sure of spelling now but it translates to deer island) Island it costs $25.00USD per person - child or adult includes guide, two 'dives', lunch & boat trip.
One of the people we met at the hotel was a Tasmainain who had dived at New Guinea, Fiji, Great Barrier etc he said it was very comparable with them and possibly even better. My husband had dived around NZ and was also impressed. There are a variety of differnt places they can take you so you could go more than once - some of our arty even saw Nemo - I'm still looking! It was absolutley fantastic the most beautiful fish everywhere, and I didnt even dive down just floated along on top.
Our daughter is 12 years and managed it easily there are buoys along the area where they take you for you to hold on to if you get tired. No current easy swimming.
The gear they hired was fine.
You can also snorkel off the beach in front of Yos diving where there is an artifical reef - however we tried it late afternoon but the visbabilty was not good aparently it is better early morning.
We stayed at the Aneka Bangus in one of their villa's for $40.00USD per night plus a $13.00 USD charge for our daughter including breakfasts. If your intersted conact them and negotiate _ I went though a internet travel agent but they do the same price direct.
The company who orgainised all the diving was Yos Marine Adventures
you can look up their website yosdive dot com
any queries email me I have photos that I can scan.
taukiri@bigpond.com.au
Shaz