Eel Garden
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Eel Garden is a wall dive at the western corner of Menjangan Island, off north-west Bali, Indonesia. It is reached by boat and is often called the must-dive of the island. It is a three-part dive, with a wall, a sandy slope and a shallow coral garden.
Wall: the dive begins on a straight wall that starts at about 10 m and drops to 50 m. A cloud of damselfish sits along the top, with blue soft sponges that often host giant frogfish. Gorgonian sea fans are numerous, and pygmy seahorses can be found by close searching.
Sand and garden: the wall ends on a sandy slope whose top, at about 18 m, forms a plateau covered in masked garden eels, which gave the site its name. Beyond it is a shallow coral garden at around 10 m, where you spend the rest of the dive among coral heads looking for turtles, leaf scorpionfish, nudibranchs and octopus.
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The site sits in a small channel between Menjangan and Bali and sees mild current at times, from none to medium. Where there is flow, reef sharks, dogtooth tuna, giant barracuda and giant trevally hunt in schools of snapper and sweetlips. On a good day, with the right current and visibility, the dive is rated alongside Raja Ampat.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
OctopusOctopusConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
FrogfishFrogfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
SweetlipsSweetlipsReported here · unconfirmed
LionfishLionfishReported here · unconfirmed
ClownfishClownfishReported here · unconfirmed
ScorpionfishScorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
SeahorseSeahorseConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
NudibranchNudibranchConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
TrevallyTrevallyReported here · unconfirmed
Geometric GoniobranchusGoniobranchus geometricusReported here · unconfirmed
MackerelMackerelConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
SnapperSnapperConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
BarracudaBarracudaConfirmed present · 3 independent sources
Garden eelGarden eelConfirmed present · 4 independent sources
Giant MorayGymnothorax javanicusReported here · unconfirmed
BatfishBatfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Napoleon (humphead) wrasseNapoleon (humphead) wrasseConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Dusky NembrothaNembrotha kubaryanaReported here · unconfirmed
Anna's ChromodorisChromodoris annaeReported here · unconfirmed
Willan's ChromodorisChromodoris willaniReported here · unconfirmed
Blue DragonPteraeolidia semperiReported here · unconfirmed
Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasReported here · unconfirmed
Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisReported here · unconfirmed
Hypselodoris variobranchiaReported here · unconfirmed
Coi's GoniobranchusGoniobranchus coiReported here · unconfirmed
Crocodile FlatheadCymbacephalus beaufortiReported here · unconfirmed
Leaf scorpionfishLeaf scorpionfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
AngelfishAngelfishReported here · unconfirmed
DamselfishDamselfishConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
TunaTunaReported here · unconfirmed
Mantis shrimpMantis shrimpReported here · unconfirmed
Whitetip Reef SharkTriaenodon obesusObserved near here · iNaturalist
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