Nudi Falls

Nudi Falls compresses several Lembeh habitats into one small site: a miniature wall hung with pink soft corals, a cascade of rubble, and the obligatory dark sand below. The name delivers, with nudibranchs in a density and variety that turns even non-photographers into inventory clerks, but the wall also hides Pontohi pygmy seahorses, blue-ringed octopus on patrol, and ghost pipefish drifting beside crinoids. A resident rhinopias, when one is in office, becomes the strait's most photographed fish. Because the terrain is layered, guides can run the dive shallow and long, and the soft-coral backdrop gives Lembeh's rare chance at pretty wide-angle without leaving the muck.

اللحظة التي جئت من أجلها: Nudibranch variety; pygmy seahorses and blue-ringed octopus; soft-coral wall backdrops.

التضاريس: A short rock wall draped in soft coral spilling onto a rubble-and-sand slope.

المخاطر: The usual venomous suspects plus fire urchins on the slope; buoyancy over the rubble protects the small stuff.