Beach clean up on Bunaken
Beach clean up on Bunaken on 26OCT12 nets 45kg. Check out our Eco-Blog at Project Aware.
Diving in Lembeh with more blue ring octopus!
THIS WEEK IN LEMBEH… Yet more sightings of Blue Ringed Octopus (this is a great time for spotting them), plus Hairy Ghost Pipefish, a fantastic sighting of a free-swimming Mimic Octopus, Hairy Frogfish, Lembeh Sea Dragons, Stargazers, Wonderpus, Pygmy Seahorse and lots more! Watch out next week for another Dive against Debris here in Lembeh.…
Enter the 2012 Photo Competition
Don’t forget that our 2012 Photo Competition is still on, and the winners get a free holiday in Bunaken or Lembeh!! Entry is free via our Facebook, and is for anyone that dived with us in 2012. Not sure if your picture is good enough? Compare your photo’s with last years winners (http://ow.ly/eMyXs) and enter…
Its official: North Sulawesi has more diversity than Komodo & West Thailand!
In September 2012, Dr Mark Erdmann and Dr Gerry Allen were visiting Manado as Guest Lecturers for a biology workshop. At the same time they conducted a survey of fish species to measure the marine biodiversity in North Sulawesi, and it threw up some most absolutely amazing unexpected results. Namely that North Sulawesi has more…
Bunaken operation wins Certificate of Excellence for 2012 from Tripadvisor!
Our resort in Bunaken has just been awarded a Certificate of Excellence for 2012 from Tripadvisor!! The Certificate of Excellence is for 4+ star and it is a fantastic result. We would like to say thanks to all our guests that helped us with this, as well as all our staff who made this happen.…
Double whammy dive sites on Lembongan for manta research
21OCT12: We have been taking out Peter from Aquatice Alliance for more manta research, and the other day we did a double whammy of Manta Point and Manta Bay. Manta Point provided a superb experience as we witnessed a manta mating train, this is the courtship ritual where a series of males follow a female…
Diving in Bunaken this week with a whale shark!
THIS WEEK IN BUNAKEN: WHALE SHARK WHALE SHARK!!!! 2 of our guests were lucky enough to see this beautiful shark at Lekuan 1!! The currents have been a little crazy and just as Alex and Izold were thinking ‘wow can the current get any stronger?’ the whale shark glides by!! Awesome. Also this week a…
This week: Diving in Lembeh with blue ring octopus!
THIS WEEK IN LEMBEH… On land we cleaned up over 65 kilos of marine debris from our beach alone and submitted our data to Project Aware to highlight this problem area. Underwater there are continued sightings of Blue Ringed Octopus for our lucky guests this week, plus Ornate and Robust Ghost Pipefish, Wonderpus, Hairy Frogfish,…