OK, now Gangga Island is on my list. Looks beautiful! I think doing a liveaboard is the best way to do Raja Ampat. We spent a lot of time getting to dive sites from land. We plan to go back there on a liveaboard one day.Thanks for this post. We have considered a liveaboard in Raja Ampat. We spent 2 weeks on Gangga Island in 2015 and really liked the diving there. Maldives is on our bucket list, as is the Tubbataha Reef.
When you did the Great Barrier Reef, did you go out to Osprey Reef and Lizard Island? We are thinking of this but have read a lot about coral bleaching in that area.
Have you ever dove Papau New Guinea? That’s another one we’d like to try. So many places!
We started our GBR liveaboard by flying out to Lizard Island on a puddle jumper to meet the boat. The views of the reef from the plane were to die for. There was alot of bleaching when we were there 2 years ago, and I hear more now. The shallow reef walls we saw looked dead. There were some pretty pinnacles in deeper water. It is a bucket list thing for so many of us, so I would never say don't go, just go as far out as you can, and don't have high expectations. It will pale in comparison with where you have been, I think. Mix it in with seeing other things in Oz and check out NZ, esp the southern island if you can. Beautiful place!
No to Papua New Guinea. DH really wants to go, so still on our list.