Kakaban is really cool. It's a very large Island that reminds me of the Rock Islands of Palau. The sides of the island are sheer cliffs covered with dense jungle right down to the water's edge. There are very few sections of beach around the Island, it mostly just drops straight away down the wall. We did the first dive at Barracuda Point. Yes we saw Barracudas, and Jacks, but they are more shy than they are in Sipadan and tend to scatter as you approach. I also saw a large Leopard shark, and some angel species that aren't common in Sipadan.
The second dive was Jellyfish Lake in the center of the Island. The guests snorkeled, which is really the best way to see the lake, but I lugged a tank in so that I could accomplish more with video. It's a steep climb over sharp jagged rocks you wouldn't want to fall on, but it isn't too terribly far. Millions of Jellyfish, but lots of other neat stuff too. There are anemones that eat jellyfish, rare Gobies, sea snakes, the mangrove tree roots surrounding the lake have lots of sponges coating them.
Kakaban Blue Light Cave. This is a really exciting dive. It starts at an entrance to a vertical shaft on top of the reef in about 2 feet of water. You step off the edge into a black hole that goes straight down. At about 70 feet you open into the ceiling of the main cave. You swim out along the ceiling of the cave toward the wall, because the bottom depth of the cave is about 200 feet. When you start to get near the exit of the cave, you can see the blue light of the sea. The exit is a long vertical crack in the wall which is about six feet wide at the top, and gets wider and wider as it goes down. You usually exit onto the wall at about 120 feet, though you could get out as shallow as about 100 feet. Then you finish the dive along the wall. Everyone who did it was really thrilled with the experience.
You can do all of this, and still make it back over to Sangalaki in time for Lunch!
