EXOTIC DERAWAN (6D/5N)

The terrain at Derawan is varied from walls and fringing reefs to cans. Big green turtles (Chelonia
Mydas), white-tip, leopard and nurse sharks, schooling barracuda, napoleon wrasse, cuttlefish,
Spanish mackerel, jacks, batfish and ornamental reef fish hang out in record densities and diversity.
Dr. Carden Wallaceof the Museum of Tropical Queensland found over 50 species od Acropora hard
coral on one reef! Not only is it possible to dive with turtles on every night to procreate; hatclings are
often encountered just below the cottages and restaurant.my favorite site however is just the “doorstep” beneath the plyons of the 200m long jetty.
Here, therelive some of the most mind-boggling and bizzare critters I have fount in years: luminous
multicolored dumpling squids, pirs of 3ft crocodile fish, finger-sized purple crayfish, squat lobster,
decorator crabs, pink sea horses and unidentified species of worm, tunicates and dwarf scorpionfish.
The quality of diving around Derawan is indeed what divers dream about. I have been back four times,
and I will be back again, again, and again.