Tanjung Gaang Slope

A gently sloping reef off Bawean's western cape descends through banded coral zones to a rubble plain at 30 metres. The slope is a textbook macro habitat: flamboyant cuttlefish stalk across the mixed rubble and sand, blue-ringed octopus hide in abandoned shells, and the rare Bawean endemic shrimp goby (closely related to Amblyeleotris species found in the Coral Triangle) guards its burrow entrance. Muck diving specialists visiting Bawean almost universally rank this as their top site.