The area around Komodo island is revered by divers for very good reasons. I didn't know too much about it, except that the reefs are supposed to be amazing with a lot of marine life. So I started looking up liveabords when we were leaving Australia and found the Komodo Liveaboards web. I wrote them to get a quote for 3/4 stay and they offered us 4 days at their boat Charlie. We were really lucky though - they had some spaces left on Mona Lisa (sailboat) and so we got "bumped up" for free :) This was our second livaboard (after Mike Ball in Australia) and well worth the money. We flew to Labuanbajo on Flores and then were transferred to the boat on an hour-long ride on a speedboat.
Diving in Komodo is not for beginners, mainly due to fairly strong currents. When we boarded a group of divers from Poland were just about to leave and all they talked about was how crazy strong the currents were. Apparently they had troubles to even keep hold rocks, coming back from site called Cauldron, which they briskly nicknamed "the washing-machine" :) I have to say that during the 4 days of us diving, we didn't experience anything extreme. We did get into strong currents on one or two sites, but nothing crazy.
I could be raving about the diving for a long time. Look at the pictures and you'll get the idea. We came back excited from every single dive - not one site was "just ok", all were super awesome. I personally thing the soft corals were close match for the ones we saw at Rainbow Reef on Fiji, the marine life is better here. Night-dives were breath-taking. On the very last night I did a solo night muck-dive at one of th beached, just hanging at 15ft all the time (I was flying the next morning, so I didn't want to push my luck). I know I'm not very good with finding liffle things (or big for that matter), but here I found decorator crab, juvenile cuttlefish, etc...
I truly wish we could've stayed there for (much much) longer. The boat was beautiful, crew was perfect and the diving... to die for.
Dive 1 - Manta Point, Dive 2 - Sebayour Kecil (night), Dive 3 - Sebayour Kecil, Dive 4 - Sebayour Kecil, Dive 5 - Crystal Rock, Dive 6 - Bay (night), Dive 7 - Lampu, Dive 8 - Castle Rock, Dive 9 - South Passage, Dive 10 - Crystal Rock (night), Dive 11 - The Cauldron, Dive 12 - Batu Bolong, Dive 13 - Wanilu (night)