In a previous blog you saw that we were busy building a home for fish on our house reef to live in. Recently we had a quiet afternoon, so we rounded up the staff to pitch in and help get the structure into the water, which they gladly did! We (well Opo and Gizmo) had…
“Who??,” we hear you cry! Its the lovely Boxer Crab of course! We found this little guy at a close-by dive site, recently, hiding in some coral rubble extremely shallow. As you can imagine we and our guests were all pretty excited to see him as they are pretty rare and are often hiding under…
Congratulations to Tanya for completing her Digital Underwater Photography Specialty. Tanya’s first time ever taking photos under water, and what amazing results! Proving it’s not as hard as people think, her best photos were actually taken with white balance, rather than point and shoot. A few our her favourite photos shown here include a fun…
On Saturday 5th June, Two Fish Divers Participated in a big Discover Scuba Diving day for the local people of Manado, put together by North Sulawesi Watersports Association (NSWA). The new PADI IDC format requires that candidates now have to undertake an “Intro to Diving” workshop. This event coincided with the last day of our…
May has come to an end and we have to say if has been an awesome month for diving in Lembeh! The month did start off a little bit rainy and grey but the diving was anything but sad and gloomy – it has been a great month for Frogfish sightings, octopus encounters, cool Nudis,…
So after the successful ‘planting’ of the cleaning stations, we started on the next phase of our artificial reef – building of fish houses. We chose a nice sunny day and grabbed our mound of bricks and started to design the ‘main’ fish house. We use traditional batako ( bricks) for the bottom and top…
This week in Bunaken something we haven’t seen here before was found. Luckily one of our divers, Sebastien from Brussels, had his camera with him. Coming from the Sea Urchin family, Sebastien found a Lovenia Elongata (long-spined heart urchin). It just goes to show that even our local dive guides who have been diving the…
In mid-May we welcomed back Brendon, our Course Director, for another high season in Bunaken. He is conducting a couple if IDC’s and leading our effort to discover the depths of Bunaken with Tec diving. The Tec Diving season kicked off with 2 guests completing their PADI Tec Diver course last week. Thijs & Daan…