日程安排
DAY 1: Guest reception at Sorong airport, transfer to the boat, Check-in, welcome drink, briefing, departure in the evening. According to the weather forecast, we will start the tour by the south or the North. In this schedule, we present the option starting with the South. Over night Navigation through Sele Strait to reach the East of Misool. Arrival in the early morning.
DAY 2: In East Misool you will discover 3 fantastic dives: No Contest, Love Potion, and 3 Rocks. Rocks with vertical walls and fantastic coverage of soft corals, a lot of fishes with schools of Platax, aggregations of snappers, bump head parrotfishes. We spend the night in the hidden lagoon, a very special anchorage inside an almost closed bay surrounded by high rocks. From the boat, we can hear and see the cockatoos before the night falls. We will go with the dinghies to have a look at another lagoon located further into the rocks.
DAY 3: After a short morning navigation, we reach Misool South East and start another great day of diving in the vicinity of Misool eco-resort: Boo Rocks with 2 large openings windows in the rock that completely pierce the island from the surface to 5 meters deep, Fiabacet, Fantasea. Again an explosion of colors and fish density. In the evening, we organized a dinner on the beach of a small island.
DAY 4: Misool East. Mode dives in Misool, Yellit kecil, a great wall with excellent fans and soft corals, tank rock, and Nudi rock. Night navigation to Penemu and Fam islands.
DAY 5: Penemu North, Barracuda, a long oval-shaped reef with great aggregations of fishes (barracudas, fusiliers, and bannerfish), Galaxy, a large reef with excellent fish life, Melissa Garden an extraordinary site for its hard corals stand. Night navigation to Aljuy Bay.
DAY 6: After an early morning dive at Mayhem, a very high-voltage submerged reef, we enter in Aljui Bay, a 20-kilometer-long indentation on the western side of Waigeo. We do 2 dives in the bay (Wofoh and Intersection), then one of the best night dives of the Raja Empat under the peer of a pearl farm that is settled there.
DAY 7: We still do 2 dives in the Aljuy Bay, Aljui 1, and the Channel. Between these 2 dives, we will have a short visit to the pearl farm if their work schedule allows it. Night navigation to Wayag islands.
DAY 8: Wayag, the northern point of our cruise is a fantastic quartz islets labyrinth. We dive into Quoy, Cathedrale Rock, and Wayag ridge. In the late afternoon, we climbed a small mountain to admire the wonderful landscape of the area.
DAY 9: After a first dive in Wayag (figure eight), we go to Kawe Island where we dive into Black Rock and Eagle Rock. Night dive. Night navigation to Dampier strait.
DAY 10: Two famous and fabulous dives in the Dampier Strait, Chicken Reef and Sardine Reef. The boat will then sail back to Sorong where it will arrive during the evening.
DAY 11: Breakfast, Check out according to guest flight schedule. Transfer to the airport, check-in assistance.
It is certainly the world's most biodiverse marine region with more recorded fish, coral, and mollusk species than anywhere else on the planet. Some areas boost enormous schools of fishes there are spots with large groups of manta rays, others with schools of barracudas, trevallies, bump head parrot fish, large groupers, and of course always a great variety of critters. The reefs are varied as their inhabitants, with vertical walls, seamounts, pinnacles, slopes, caves, and lagoons, some more covered with hard corals and others displaying colorful soft corals. Everywhere you will find a lot of gorgonians with their resident pygmy seahorses. Everywhere you will find a profusion of colors and life.
The last dive will be on the penultimate day of the trip. Divers are recommended to wait for 24 hours before flying after the last dive.
Sample itineraries and maps are for illustrative purposes only. The exact route and sites visited are subject to change based on local regulations, guest experience, weather, and logistics and are at the Captain's discretion.