Manta Point (Nusa Penida)

Southwest-coast cleaning station off Batu Lumbung where reef mantas queue up at coral bommies while cleaner wrasse pick parasites from their gill arches. Action begins at 4 m and the wall steps down to about 25 m. Cooler upwelled water from the Lombok Strait — often dropping to 22 °C — and Indian Ocean swell separate this site from the calmer reefs of northern Bali. Mantas are resident year round; surface conditions, not animal reliability, decide whether the boat runs. Occasional oceanic mantas and the rare mola mola pass through during the July–October upwelling.