We’ve had Bobbit Worms Bobbin’ up in Lembeh this week. These guys have got to be one of the prettiest creatures ever put on God’s earth….no? Thank you to Keiko for capturing this great shot of the Bobbit Worm in action. The Eunice Aphroditois was named the “Bobbit Worm” after Lorena Bobbitt who made the…
This week in Amed some of our guests spotted a Ghost Pipefish during a Night Dive on the House Reef right in front of the Dive Center. These little guys give us a hard time to find as they have an amazing ability to camouflage, to blend in with the seagrass, weeds, and in this…
Another fine week of weather & diving in Bunaken with the highlight of two Notodoris serenae, a very special find as we don’t spot them very often. They can grow to more than 10 cm in length but these ones were only about 5cm. As well as the small, we also had our usual sightings,…
This week, World Oceans Day meant that our staff Andy, Hery and Frauke “Kay” were doing a reef clean up, and within a 60 minutes dive we collected more than 3 big mesh bags full of rubbish. It was a geeat dive as well because during the clean up we found loads of juvenile fishes…
We got an incredible look inside Lembeh’s Painted Frogfish this week. Obviously caught in a wide mouthed yawn, this gorgeous photo was taken by Victor and Lynn and they have truly captured an amazing image. The Painted Frogfish is a type of Angler Fish. They have an incredible ability to camouflage themselves and they use…
This week in Amed, one of our guest, Keith Massey from New Zealand, captured a really stunning picture of a Pygmy Seahorse, “Kudalaut Kerdil” in Indonesian. This creature is one hard little fella to find, but our dive guides have a trained eye. Usually found in shallow and warm tropical waters, they attach to a…
This week some of our guests spotted the colorful peacock mantis shrimp lurking out of his little hole go for a little walk along the reef. Mantis shrimps are fascinating critters with their eyes are mounted on mobile stalks and can move independently of each other. It hunts snails, slugs and crustaceans and will repeatedly…
This week in Bunaken one of our dive guides spotted the purple hypselodoris bullocki nudibranch, one of the most beautiful nudibranchs that we can find on Bunaken. More commonly know as sea slugs, Nudibranchs are some of the hardest creatures to spot on a dive, luckily our dive guides are experts at picking them out…