The Giant Frogfish, Antennarius commerson, is an ambush predator so it usually relies on camouflage to avoid detection and they can actually change the hue of their skin to better match their surroundings making them almost impossible to spot. Sometimes though, the Giant Frogfish are hard to miss in Bunaken, growing up to 38cm in…
As we all know, after scuba diving we need to wait 12 hours prior to flying if we have made a single dive. As most of our divers stay and dive for repetitive days or make repetitive dives (more than one dive in one day), the waiting time becomes 18 hours. So what does one…
Here in Lembeh we have no shortage of underwater photographers producing some fantastic content but what is more important than the quality of photos is how to be a responsible underwater photographer. It is important to remember that every time we go diving we are stepping into a foreign world and we are mere tourists.…
My name is Wilfried. Here is my second diving trip to Bunaken. I made the first one by chance last summer: I’d been in Jakarta and Bogor for a few days but at the end, I couldn’t stand the heat anymore and went to the airport with the Lonely Planet, looking for the first plane…
Hammerhead Shark in the Pyramids !!! That’s the highlight of the week, the breaking news in the diving community in Amed this week ! A (relatively young though) beautifull Hammerhead shark (Sphrynidae) has been spoted on the Pyramids dive site in Amed. Divers can have enjoyed this unusual guest on our reef during several hours…
Whether you have seen every species of Moray Eel or just the common ones it is always exciting to see them guarding their holes and even better to see them out swimming. For some divers at Two Fish Divers this week was the first time spotting Snowflake Moray Eels in Bunaken.
The beautiful Reef Manta Rays can be spotted around the islands of Nusa Penida – Bali, where they are drawn to the cleaning stations. The cleaning stations are the spots where small cleaner-fish reside that clean the skin of the fish visiting the spots. During mating season we generally see more mantas around the cleaning…
Here in Lembeh we have a variety of fascinating creatures under the water. Some of the most interesting are the Pipefish. Pipefish are closely related to Seahorses and Seadragons and are often observed as a straight bodied seahorse. Their bodies are long and slender and have a similarly distinguished snout. They all have a dorsal…