This week in Bunaken… Divers have been spoiled this week with plenty of encounters of large game fish. Schools of big eye trevallies and yellow fin tunas have cruised by as well as massive dog tooth tunas, great barracudas and giant trevallies. All this activity has also made the reef fish more on the edge…
This week in Lembeh…. This is Cheerleading Lembeh Style! We have been seeing our own versions of pom pom wielding cheerleaders in our waters. The cute yet elusive Boxer crab (Lybia) is a type of small crab from the Xanthidae family. They are most recognizable from the pom pom like anemones they carry in their…
The full moon has come and gone this week leaving us with a fairly calm surface and currents next to nothing. This has not meant that all our big beauties of the ocean have disappeared alongside with them. On our dives out in Belongas Bay, South Lombok this week we have been lucky enough to…
This week at the south gilis Lombok … crustaceans are giving their best pose to the camera. Squat lobster are dorsoventrally flattened crusaceans with long tails held curled beneath the thorax. More than 900 species have been described, in around 60 genera. Besides squat lobsters, we saw other crustaceans and critters like corallimorph decorator crap;
This Week in Lembongan… It was all cheers as we gathered with all the staff and guests for a celebratory dinner. But the biggest birthday present came from the manta rays at Manta Point, where we were far from disappointed!
Thano from the US and Andreas from Norway both completed their PADI Divemaster courses with us between Bunaken and Lembeh locations. As both locations have good diveable wrecks the guys chose to do their PADI Wreck Specialty as well.
This week in Bunaken… The divers got a cephalopod sensation this week when they ended up among freshly hatched octopus and cuttlefish. During a dive over at the mainland, ‘the muck diving of Bunaken‘, Benita and Janine from Australia all of a sudden found themselves among heaps of tiny little octopus swimming around in the…
In Belongas the Mobula Rays have come together for a spectacular underwater show at one of our famous dive sites Gili Sarang, South Lombok. 25 – 30 Mobula rays dancing around each other right next to the reef while in between the multi-coloured soft corals were blue spotted stingrays elevating themselves up around 2-3 feet…