Departure points, not map pins
Fishing from Bali’s harbours
Two harbours, because two harbours is the honest number. A boat you can book leaves from each of them; the rest of the island’s terminals will sell you a ferry ticket and nothing else.
Sanur Harbour
Badung Strait & Nusa Penida
The busiest departure point in Bali, and the only one where fishing boats actually leave the beach. Twenty minutes of road from Denpasar, thirty minutes of water from Nusa Penida.
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Easiest months: November, March, April
Serangan Harbour
Badung Strait & Nusa Penida
Bali’s charter base rather than its ferry terminal: almost every private boat and yacht on this platform is moored here, behind the reef on the south-east corner of the island.
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Easiest months: November, March, April
Why only two
Eighteen harbours on this platform are active with published routes, and sixteen of them have no boat that departs for a day on the water. Five of those sixteen sit on the same measured stretch of sea as each other, so a page for each would have said the same thing five times and ended with “book somewhere else”. A page that cannot answer “can I go from here” is not worth your click or our publishing it.
Book the boat, not just the day
Our captains work this water all year and know which weeks it rewards.