North coast of Flores island offers great spot for diving, small rare critters, it is well worth a visit. Frogfishes, mimic octopus and special nudibranchs. The area is also known for a lot of endemic species approximately more than 1200 species of fish, including some new to science.

Flores northern coast consists of beautiful tropical landscape surrounded by the mountain and volcanoes. The islands on the outer edge of the bay have nice coral reefs with steep walls covered with hard corals and large sea fans. Pulau Besar is the largest of the islands with high mountains and together with Dambilah and Pangahbatang it forms a barrier to the water flowing in and out of the bay.

For this reason the bay is calm at most times and dolphins, sperm whales and whale sharks like to come here. Dolphins and pilot whales are common and can be seen during the whole year, mostly if the sea is calm. Sperm whales can be seen during the rainy season from November to December. The best time to see whale sharks seems to be April and May but they are around the whole year, it seems, though, that if there are waves they are very difficult to spot from the boats.

The best time to see whale sharks seems to be April and May but they are around the whole year, it seems, though, that if there are waves they are very difficult to spot from the boats.