Bali Trip: Scuba Diving

Gary enjoyed a day trip of scuba diving at Tulamben. It was a three-hour drive from Kuta. He was able to dive a shipwreck, the Liberty.

These pictures are the scenery during the three hour drive.

 

 

Terrace rice field.

 

 Gary

      

The shipwreck USAT Liberty sits on a sand slope. During WWII, in 1942, the ship was disabled and eventually ran aground. In 1963, the volcano Gunung Agung erupted in a big way, and the wreckage was pushed off the beach by the lava flow and ended up beneath the surface right offshore. It lies on its side in two large pieces, beautifully overgrown with marine life.

 

 

 

 

  

  

Blue angel fish

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Coral

 

  

Fan coral

 

  

Living coral

 

 

 

 

  

Grouper

 

  

Gary swimming through the hull of the ship.

  

 

 

The eyes of a sting ray. He is covered with sand. 

 

  

The eyes of the stingray.