8 Night Raja Ampat

• We will pick you up at your hotel or Sorong airport and take you to the harbour, where our crew will welcome you onboard Calico Jack.
• Following refreshments and a short ship tour, you will be briefed on safety, diving operations, and life onboard.
• We will aim to depart by 11 am (or when the last guest is onboard) and head 5 hours north to Waisai.This will allow you to get acquainted with the ship, set up your dive gear and cameras, and meet and socialise with the other guests and friendly crew before an afternoon check dive.
• You will spend the night close to Waisai at a safe anchorage on the Mioskon dive site.
• For the sunset, we visit Mioskon island’s white sand beaches and watch the sunset go down as swarms of flying foxes depart on the night’s adventure.

After a short, early morning navigation, we begin the day with dives at Mioskon & Sardine Reef. Ironically, sardines are about the only reef fish not found at Sardine Reef, but you’ll hardly notice as “fish thunder” (the loud booming sound made when large numbers of fish move rapidly through open water) engulfs you and swarms of fish block out the sky.

• In the afternoon, you will dive Yanbuba Jetty, famous for large fish congregations under the Village Jetty.
• For sunset, we will make a navigation crossing to Penemu.

• We will make our way across the Equator and towards the picturesque and famous Lagoons of Wayag. On the way, you will dive at Eagle Rock; a large area made up of 3 differing islets that are interconnected underwater. Large schools of fish, including bumphead parrotfish, congregate here, as well as winged pipefish, several species of dragonets and an array of unusua nudibranchs not often seen anywhere else in Raja Ampat.
• Before entering the lagoons and anchoring, you will dive at Black Rock, a site famous for its lush black coral forests and gorgonian sea fans decorating the sloping rocks and reef.
• The afternoon will be spent exploring the area by kayak, paddle boarding or speed Boat. Here, we can ascend and trek to a vantage point on Mount Pindito where you will get a 360° panoramic view of the spectacular landscape, and if lucky, the shapes of mantas revealed in the shallow turquoise waters below.
• Night Dive in the lagoon.

• In the morning, we dive into our secret Manta cleaning point to observe this graceful animal gliding amongst the 2 cleaning stations we recently discovered.
• After lunch, we will go to the Shark Sanctuary in the archipelago’s heart. Here you will have a meet with around 20 friendly juvenile sharks swimming by the beach.
• Afternoon dive Ridge Rock Evening navigation to Wofo Island.

• We start the day with an early navigation to the Wofo Island area. Here, in the morning you will dive at Woo’s Black Forest, a stunning dive traversing the deep black fan landscape rising to a beautiful and pristine shallow reef.
• The second dive is a Woo Tembok (a wall dive) and finally, Teman Wofo. The evening will be spent on a secluded beach experiencing one of Calico Jack’s famous beach parties and our chef’s delicious BBQ. Explore the beach, meet the local hermit crabs, and indulge in a glass of wine as music is played and fireworks light the night sky.

• An early morning navigation brings us to the stunning Mangrove Anchorage in the passage of Gam and Yangeffo. Here, you will find some of the most spectacular dive sites in West Waigeo: Mayhem and Citrus Ridge. In the right conditions, you can expect some of the highest voltage diving in Raja Ampat, with currents bringing in massive schools of barracudas, three species of fusiliers, trevallies, batfish, bump head parrotfish, wobbegongs, as well as black and white tip reef sharks.
• In the afternoon we will move to Arborek village and dive the Arborek jetty, famous for the huge schools of fish that shelter beneath it and also for the colourful soft corals that cover its piles with pipefish and cuttlefish dwelling more in-depth below.
• After the third dive, we will visit the local village and learn about the traditional way of life of the island people.
• Night dive in the area.

• We save the very best for the last. We discover two fabulous dive sites during our final diving day: Blue Magic and Sardine Reef. Both of these sites offer some of the largest concentrations of big fish in Raja Ampat. Oceanic Manta can also be seen at Blue Magic.
• In the afternoon, we have time to relax on one of Kri’s secluded beaches before raising the sails and making navigating back to Sorong, where we arrive later in the evening.