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A curving white-sand beach with pale turquoise shallows, backed by a low green-topped limestone headland under a cloudy blue sky — Rote Island.

Rote Island · Indonesia · Reef · Sand slope

North Point N'dao Island

A sandy slope with coral bommies off the north tip of Ndao Island

Area photo: Mujiono Leo · CC BY-SA 3.0

North Point is the northern tip of N'dao (Ndao) Island, west of Rote, where a sandy slope dotted with coral bommies runs down to 30 m. A light current flows along the shoreline. Most of the dive stays around 15 m, among snapper, sweetlips, groupers, batfish and barracuda.

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Where it is and how deep

Depth profile of North Point N'dao Island: typical dive to 30 m (to 100 ft) 18 m · Open Water30 m · Advanced40 m · Recreational limit30 mtypical dive
Depths on a shared scale to 40 m (130 ft); dashed lines mark common certification limits.

10.8148° S, 122.6649° EApproximate position — the dashed circle shows where the site lies; your operator's briefing has the mooring.

The dive

Divers follow the shoreline at the island's north point, carried by the light current that runs along it. The bottom is sand sloping away between coral bommies, which reaches 30 m at its deepest; moray eels, leaf fish and scorpionfish keep to the bommies, and the reef fish gather around them.

Marine life and season

The sources we used don't single out particular species here.

Month-by-month season rating for North Point N'dao Island
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Season follows Rote Island: May to October is the dry high season; November to March brings most of the rain. No month is a peak for the diving itself.

Sources

  1. Dive Rote Indonesia — Anugerah Surf & Dive Resort
  2. Rote – Wikivoyage — Wikivoyage

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