After completing my rescue and EFR courses in the Philippines, and a quick stop for some fun diving in Sipadan, I arrived on Bunaken island this week and am very happy to be back. This is the fifth time for me in Bunaken and it really does feel like coming home.
Welcome to our Weekly Roundup! Last week we had skeleton shrimps, sharks at 50m, protecting sharks and rays, eating lunch underwater and lots of blue rings!
This week in Lembongan… The false clown anemone fish (A.K.A Nemo) have been entertaining our divers as they dodge, duck, dip, dive and dodge there way around the protective tentacles of the anemone.
This week in Bunaken… The next time you pick up an empty shell on the beach and pocket it to take home, just think of all the hermit crabs that would have loved to move into such a nice home. That’s right, with more and more shells going as souvenirs to be placed on bookshelves,…
This week our guests have been having a Blueringed-tastic time in Lembeh, nearly every day we have been having sightings of these rare octopus. As well as these we have also been having a lot of the usual suspects as well, coconut, log arm, starry night, mimic and the lovely wunderpus octopus.
Welcome to our Weekly Roundup! Last week we had aliens, trimix diving, the end of tanks, ghostpipefish and the amazing Shark Buses of Hong Kong!
This Week in Lembongan…. It has been a week of large creatures with our divers seeing Whale Shark, Molas and Mantas. Dive guide Rein and his divers had one amazing dive in which they saw 2 molas within the first 10 minutes and a whale shark not long after that.
This week on Bunaken…. Some of the tiniest creatures known as skeleton shrimp are ready for Halloween here on Bunaken. Our guides are famous for finding the tiniest things underwater and there is no exception for this one. The skeleton shrimp is only millimetres long and completely transparent – they hang around on pieces of…