It’s been a great week for finding cuttlefish in Gili Air! Cuttlefish are spotted frequently around the Gili Islands, including the broad club cuttlefish above which was captures on camera on our House Reef this week by our guest, PADI Instructor John McDowell, visiting from the Bahamas. Cuttlefish are not actually fish, they are cephalopods,…
Ceylon gymnodoris Nudibranch November is a very special time for us on the House Reef at Two Fish Divers Amed. During a couple of weeks at the end of the month is the reproduction season of the Ceylon Gymnodoris. This nudibranch with a transparent white body wears pretty red dots and thin red lines on…
Meet this week’s nudibranch feature from Two Fish DIvers Lembeh Strait: the ‘Desirable Flabellina’ (Coryphellina exoptata). This beautiful nudibranch is the most well known of all the flabellinas…and is also no longer a flabellina after being reclassified into the genus coryphellina. Enough of the pedantry though, this is one common name that appears to have…
Life as a Bunaken Divemaster Trainee Continued….. Hey everyone! it’s blog time from Conny (Bunaken Divemaster Trainee) again! At Two Fish Divers Bunaken this week it has been blue sky, warm weather, a mild breeze (if we’re lucky 😉 and singing birds. It is a wonderful place to be and I feel at home already!…
Most of the time we are busy hanging out with the superb sea creatures that Lembongan is famous for – molas, manta rays, turtles, pufferfish, Napoleon wrasses, moray eels, nudibranchs… and so much more – but sometimes we stay on the surface and hang out with the Lembongan Beach Dogs at Two Fish Divers. The…
Divemaster Internship in Nusa Lembongan Hello! My name is Jens, I am from Denmark and I am currently doing my PADI Divemaster Training with Two Fish Divers Nusa Lembongan. When I decided I was going to do my PADI Divemaster Course in Bali there was little doubt in my mind that it was going to…
Octopus of all species are incredibly smart and they are extremely good at playing hide and seek on the walls of Bunaken. Most commonly we find day octopus (Octopus cyanea), also known as the reef octopus, and it is unlike other octopus because these ones hunt during the day time. They are able to dramatically…
New Bunaken Trainee Divemaster Our new Bunaken Trainee Divemaster, Bastien, has just spent his first week on the wonderwalls of Bunaken with us. Thrown in at the deep end with skill circuits, buoyancy practice and some stronger current than he is used to, he is developing fast into a PADI pro. This is Bastien’s adventures…