Wai Nilu

★★★★☆ (1,082)

Wainilu, located close to Rinca Island, is a famous dive spot amongst “muck-diving” lovers and photographers. This is a rather shallow dive in dead coral, sand, and rubble, and surprises divers with weird and amazing critters. A great place for macro diving so don’t forget your camera.

Divers can find nudibranchs, different types of mantis shrimp, pipefishes, frogfish, seahorse, blue ring octopus, or even a mimic octopus, Ribbon eel, Frogfish, Dragonets, Wunderpus,Zebra crab, Coleman shrimp, Harlequin shrimp, Nudibranchs, Snake eel, Flying gurnard, Ghost pipe seahorseand Mandarin fish.

Dive Activity

Top Wildlife Sightings

Wildlife Sightings are Based on User Generated Content

Moray Eel

50 Sightings
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1
F
0
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0
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0
M
9
J
15
J
0
A
0
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0
O
9
N
13
D
3

Octopus

42 Sightings
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1
F
0
M
0
A
0
M
6
J
6
J
12
A
0
S
8
O
9
N
0
D
0

Nudibranch

199 Sightings
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3
F
4
M
9
A
13
M
20
J
26
J
25
A
24
S
23
O
25
N
19
D
8

Common Seahorse

140 Sightings
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1
F
0
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0
A
6
M
17
J
25
J
21
A
14
S
15
O
24
N
14
D
3

Shrimp

135 Sightings
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2
F
3
M
5
A
11
M
13
J
18
J
15
A
11
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18
O
18
N
15
D
6

Lionfish

133 Sightings
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0
F
3
M
5
A
8
M
14
J
21
J
18
A
18
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17
O
13
N
11
D
5

Crab

128 Sightings
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2
F
3
M
5
A
11
M
13
J
18
J
17
A
8
S
16
O
15
N
15
D
5

Pipefish

82 Sightings
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1
F
2
M
4
A
4
M
6
J
13
J
15
A
9
S
9
O
11
N
8
D
0

Cuttlefish

77 Sightings
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2
F
3
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0
A
7
M
6
J
14
J
14
A
9
S
9
O
0
N
10
D
3

Scorpionfish

66 Sightings
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0
F
2
M
5
A
4
M
0
J
15
J
11
A
10
S
9
O
0
N
6
D
4