All our guests were very happy after their brilliant Manado Tua day trip! It has been again a wonderful week in Bunaken! Although some of the nights we have had some rain, every day has turned back into sunshine. Plenty of fun diving this week! We have been out on two day trips –…
We have some beautiful Seahorses here on Lembeh. This one is known as the Common Seahorse, or Hippocampus Kuda and is only one of over 54 species of Seahorses. As you can see, our guest’s, Ludo and Meike, captured a lovely photo of this Seahorse, which is anything but common! The Common Seahorse is found…
This week in Amed, Bayu and Baron, our incredible Dive Guides from Manado, found some more hidden underwater crawlers; this one is called the Crinoid Squat Lobster, a tiny crustacean captured by Samuel Wong, amateur photographer but also recently certified PADI Divemaster. Many can be found on the Local Dive sites; with a trained eye…
The Halimeda ghost pipefish was our favourite fish in Bunaken this week. We have a couple of divesites around Bunaken where the trained eyes of our diveguides find that cutie-pie! Here is some info about the rarity from Wikipedia: “Halimeda ghost pipefish, Solenostomus halimeda, is a species of false pipefishes belonging to the family Solenostomidae.…
Our Divemaster trainee Lauren is very happy in Bunaken – “…I have now been in Bunaken starting my DM course for the past week and it is flying by! Every morning I wake up, grab a cup of coffee, and head to a hut with bean bag chairs and hammocks to relax and study… The…
The lovely Lionfish of Lembeh display their awesome colours on almost every dive! This beautiful picture of a Juvenile Common Lionfish was taken by our guests, Kevin and Simone. This Common Lionfish comes from the family, Scorpaenidae and this particular one is from the genus, Pterois miles, and is also known as the Devil Firefish.…
This week in Amed, we keep on adding some more Muck Dives discoveries and get to admire the Leaf Scorpionfish; a pretty fish with a weird shape that preys on shrimps, crabs and even smaller fish thanks to its venomous spines; a strong venom still considerably weaker than that of the stonefish. Just as many…
This week on Lembongan some of our guests spotted one of the most unique looking fish on the planet, the Unicorn Fish. The unicorn fish has a long horn that protrudes from the top of its head but biologists are unsure of the purpose of it. It isn’t used as a weapon or swimming aid,…