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.

Gallery Jemeluk is a dive site that is about 2.0 kilometres east from the hotel. An approximate GPS mark for this dive is 8°20'17.081"S 115°39'36.317"E (using WGS84 as the datum). It is very near Jemeluk Wall.

A satellite photo from Google Earth that shows the location of Jemeluk Wall in red. Gallery Jemeluk is near the green marker off the beach. Hotel Uyah is at far top left

It only takes about 10 minutes to get there by boat, but to be honest, the boat needed its bottom scraped of barnacles and weed, so it should have been about 7 minutes.

An artificial reef made of tyres	This might be the remains of a small truck or car

The site is at the western end of Jemeluk Beach and the boat moors just off beach. Once we descended, we went north to the sandy slope and then north-east along the slope. There are lots of artificial reefs at the start, tyres, concrete sleepers and concrete cubes. They are all covered in heaps of growth and there is plenty of fishlife on and around them.

Another artificial reef, this time with statues of deities on top.	A very large artificial reef structure

After a while some coral outcrops and then more dense. Some gorgonias, sponges, barrel sponges and small gorgonias. We see two more yellow-finned triggerfish, again they do not attack me like the one did a week or so ago at Tulamben. Over part of the reef I see a large juvenile harlequin sweetlips and two large stars and stripe snapper.

Later I see a tiny 7-8 mm emperor angelfish, but of course since I am reduced to using a GoPro, I cannot get a photograph of it. We see some sole, a few nudibranchs but no shrimp except starfish shrimp. At 50 mins we turn around and headed south and south-west back towards the mooring out boat is on. There are more reefs back near boat.

Another reef made from tyres, this time it is on part of the coral reef	A juvenile spotted harlequin sweetlips over some coral near another type of reef

The visibility was less than the other dives we did at Amed, but still very good, say 15 to 18 metres. Water temperature was 29C. Again, not very a very exciting dive site but okay.

Underwater photos from GoPro due to normal camera having problems.