Manta Rays in Komodo National Park, Indonesia
Oh man. We had signed up for a 2 dive boat trip deep into the heart of Komodo National Park, home of big fish sightings and walls of beautiful coral gardens. This trip would not disappoint. Our first dive was a wall dive with immense amounts of beautiful, healthy, vibrant coral. There was no bare patch of rock or sand. Every place that hard or soft coral could attach it had. As my friend Nate said when he saw this picture, it's "coral growing on coral growing on coral." This does give smaller creatures alot of places to hide but we still spotted some nudibranchs and a couple of beautiful leaf scorpionfish like the white one above. Our second dive was all about the mantas. We could actually see them from the boat as we counted down our hour surface interval between dives. All of us were just itching to get back in the water to see them close up. We had no idea yet just how close we would get! The current at this site, called Manta Point, is very strong. It...