Muka Kampung

Boats tie onto the permanent mooring line near a sandy sloping bay, and the descent runs down beside it. Watch the sand on the way down, because shrimp, lionfish and leaf scorpionfish sit close to it. From there the site turns into a steep sloping wall with sandy patches, worked down to 30 metres. There is often a mild to medium current along with some very mild up and down movement, so set your depth deliberately rather than letting the water set it for you.

Turtles are the reason the site has its nickname. Both green and hawksbill turtles live here in numbers, and they are what most divers surface talking about. The wall itself carries coral and sponge growth, and the cracks in it hold moray eels, octopus, scorpionfish and lionfish. Between them the usual reef crowd of angelfish, triggerfish, butterflyfish, clownfish and trumpetfish works the coral.

The open side is worth watching between turtles: whitetip and blacktip reef sharks pass along the drop-off, with eagle rays and stingrays below and pelagic fish out in the blue. Come back up the slope as the dive runs down and finish shallow over the sandy bay where the descent started, which is also where the boat is waiting on the mooring.