Leon's Cloudy Canyon

Team Leon dropped, drifted west and crossed the valley at 25 meters depth. A lot of human construction damage, but a nice dive nonetheless. Ended up north-west at the outlet of the stream. Bad visibility at bottom, strong current.

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What you'll see (21)

Lollyfish Sea CucumberHolothuria atraseen 5× near here

Pastel-green WrasseHalichoeres chloropterusseen 3× near here

Three-striped WhiptailPentapodus trivittatusseen 3× near here

Crenate Swimming CrabThranita crenataseen 3× near here

Striped SurgeonfishAcanthurus lineatusseen 2× near here

Black Longspine UrchinDiadema setosumseen 2× near here

Indo-Pacific Sand StarArchaster typicusseen 2× near here

Hawksbill Sea TurtleEretmochelys imbricataseen 1× near here

Scissortail SergeantAbudefduf sexfasciatusseen 1× near here

Pillow Cushion StarCulcita novaeguineaeseen 1× near here

Longfin BatfishPlatax teiraseen 1× near here

Napoleon WrasseCheilinus undulatusseen 1× near here

Eibl's AngelfishCentropyge eibliseen 1× near here

Freckled GrouperCephalopholis microprionseen 1× near here

Copperband ButterflyfishChelmon rostratusseen 1× near here

Blacktip GrouperEpinephelus fasciatusseen 1× near here

Specklefin GrouperEpinephelus ongusseen 1× near here

Montipora digitataseen 1× near here

Staghorn DamselAmblyglyphidodon curacaoseen 1× near here

Bigfin Reef SquidSepioteuthis lessonianaseen 1× near here

Leopard BlennyExallias brevisseen 1× near here

Planning a trip

3–5 days

worth going for

Short flight, then a transfer.

838km from Singapore — about 8h each way. 22 dive sites within 25km, enough for several days of diving.

When people dive it

Busiest Sep, Oct · almost nobody dives it Mar, Apr, Aug, Dec.

From 633 logged sightings — when divers are in the water, which is not quite the same as when visibility is best.

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Moon and tides

Waning gibbous

71% lit · day 20 of the lunar month

Neap tides

Neap tides — the smallest range of the month, so the weakest currents. Easy conditions and usually the clearest water, though a drift site may barely drift.

New 10 Oct Full 26 Oct

Phase computed here, not fetched. This is the spring/neap cycle, which sets how hard the water moves — not a tide table: no free source publishes high and low water for Southeast Asian reefs, and the range peaks a day or two after the moon does, by an amount that varies with the coast. For times on the day, ask the operator.

Getting there

~5h 30m

door to water, each way · 4 legs

FlightJakarta (CGK)~3h 42mFlight time plus the airports at both ends. A connection adds to it.Find flights →
Transferthe jetty~21 minRoad transfer to the coast, usually arranged by the resort or liveaboard.Directions →
Ferrythe crossing~57 minAt this distance the last stretch is a scheduled crossing rather than a dive boat, so book it before the flight — a missed sailing usually costs a day. Which crossing it is has been worked out from the distance and not from a timetable; ask the operator.
Dive boatLeon's Cloudy Canyon~30 minThen the dive boat out from the island.

📍 Leon's Cloudy Canyon on Google Maps 🧭 Route from Jakarta

Times marked ~ are estimated from straight-line distance and will be roughly right at best. The road legs are the ones Google Maps answers properly; it will not plan the ferry or the dive boat at all. A dive site's coordinates put a pin in open water, so the map link drops you on the site, not on a jetty.

Details

Type: yes
Island: Pulau Panjang Besar
Country: Indonesia
Marks: 5°39.929'S 106°34.235'E
Position: -5.6655, 106.5706

Where it is

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Nearby

Sightings and photographs from iNaturalist contributors, research-grade records within 6km, under Creative Commons licences. Counts are what divers and snorkellers have bothered to log — a common fish with few records is common all the same.