Southeast Asia: Day Seventeen - Bali Snorkelling Trip

We left the resort early in the morning and got a taxi over to another beach where our snorkelling trip would begin. We waited in the hot sun for the boat and went for a swim waiting for it. Once it arrived we grabbed our stuff and got a nice seat on a ferry boat. After a crowded thirty minute ride we arrived at the docks on the island of Lembongan. We found our tour group and piled into the seating that was installed into back of a truck (like the one we had taken to Thai cooking class). The drive wasn't very long and we got out at a small building with a few cabanas and lockers for our stuff. We put all our stuff in a locker before piling onto a small boat. We left the tiny dock in the mangroves and headed out to the open ocean. We passed turquoise waters carving upon worn down cliffs on our way to our first stop. The boat stopped in a large bay with choppy water. Sadly, since the water was so rough there were no Manta Rays there but I did spot a green sea turtle coming up for air in the waves.

We jumped in the water really quick to see if they were beneath all the waves crashing above but we didn't find any. We got out of the water after a little so that the waves didn't throw us into the cliff and headed to calmer shallow waters.

Once we got to a calm bay we jumped out into the warm turquoise water to a rainbow reef. There were tons and tons of fish of all colours and sizes darting through the rainbow corals and sponges. We snorkelled around the reef for a good half hour before climbing back into the boat and driving off to our next stop.

The boat stopped along a cliffside and we jumped back into the water and swam with the current along the cliff. Just below us were some colourful coral and a few fish but down far below were even bigger coral and bigger fish. It was too deep to for us to dive all the way down but the guides were able to with great ease. The main reason we were snorkelling on the cliffside was to see Bali lion fish that live in the crevices in the cliffside reefs. One of the guides swam way down and used a palm frond to poke into one of the crevices and after his second dive a lion fish swam out. The guide swam to the surface quickly because lion fish are quite deadly with their poisonous quills. We all watched the dangerous orange and white fish down below and his quills seemed to glow a deep orange colour. It was so cool. After he went back into his crevice one of the guides offered to take a video of one with Kaden's Go Pro. We watched as he swam way down to a new crevice and found another lion fish. He went super close up with the camera before swimming right back up to the surface.

We left the cliffside and drove out to a sandbar reef that had a bunch of clownfish and parrot fish. We snorkelled the reef and saw a bunch of clownfish sticking the top of their face out of anemones. After ten minutes we all got out because the water felt so much colder than it had near the island. We climbed out shivering and were glad to be able to warm up on the way back to the dock.

We had a nice lunch sitting at the cabanas before our last activity which was kayaking. The rest of the group didn't go and instead went for a truck ride around the island before heading to the ferry. We were gonna have to do the same but our guide offered to take us even though the rest of the group wasn't going. We paddled through the mangroves and even raced on the way back to the dock. Once at the dock our guide showed us how to do a handstand on the kayak. Kaden was able to do it without falling into the water but Zaddek and I only did it for a second before falling into the water.

We thanked our guide before getting a ride back to the ferry. Once the ferry ride and taxi ride were over we relaxed and had some ice cream at the resort enjoying our last day in Bali.

Total taxis: 2

Total ferry boats: 2

Total snorkelling boats: 1

Total kayaks: 5 (Mom and Sage shared)

Total miles walked: 1.1 miles

Total miles swam: a ton