In May 2024 I spent a bit over two weeks diving in Tulamben before moving south to Amed for another week's diving. Both these places are on the north-eastern coast of Bali. While at Tulamben you virtually only do shore dives, most of the dives at Amed are boat dives. Some of these were back up towards Tulamben and some were even to the wreck of the USAT Liberty (which we declined to go on).

The main Amed dive sites are very close to the town and its nearby villages, just off the shore in reality. I stayed at the Hotel Uyah and used their associated dive shop Amed Dive Center which is on the premises.

Little Wall is a dive site that starts where the Pyramids dive ends. It is about 1250 metres east from the start of hotel. An approximate GPS mark for the start of this dive is S8° 20.04' E115° 39.336' (using WGS84 as the datum).

A satellite photo from Google Earth that shows the location of the Pyramid dive site. Little Wall starts about the right edge of the photo Hotel Uyah is at left

The run there and back is only a few minutes. This dive starts by dropping into five metres and finishes wherever you end up surfacing. The site is less than a hundred metres off the shore. Once on the bottom we headed north getting a little deeper to about 20 metres where there are two more groups of four or five pyramids. These (and most of the ones here) are made up of hollow concrete blocks which have been placed in the shapes of pyramids and roped together.

The first group of artificial reefs, pyramids	A batfish and another of the groups of pyramids

We head east from here and get a bit deeper to 24 metres or so. There are also some piles of tyres here. Like the ones to the west of here, all of them have hard corals growing on them. Some have soft corals, gorgonias and sponges. There are lots of fish living inside the pyramids as well as around and over them. We see three leaf fish, two triggerfish, a clown triggerfish and two turtles, one large, one small.

Some tyre pyramids	A turtle

Soon we come across the wall, we are at 20 metres. The wall goes from 10 metres down to 30 or 40 metres. So, it is not a little wall in that regard, but as it only runs for a hundred metres or so, perhaps that is where it gets its name. There are some overhangs and gorgonias. At the end of the wall we go up to the top and head south into the shallows where we do our safety stop.

There were not many nudibranchs but I saw some larger fish as well as all the usual tropical species.

Little Wall	Another photograph of the wall

After 75 minutes we ascend and the boat comes over and collects us, we are still off Jukung Point, although now to the north-east of it. We have travelled about 200 metres. This was a very good dive. The visibility was at least 25 metres and the water temperature was about 28°C.

All photographs from a GoPro 5.