Lembeh has been absolutely wonderful. I have spent a total of one week here for my Divemaster training, and it is quite unlike anything else with its eclectic creatures and muck diving. I have had fun dives every day and it is pretty unreal to be somewhere where every single dive I see multiple things…
Divemaster trainee Joe decided on short notice to take his divemaster course, here is a note on his experience… I arrived in Bunaken on July 29th for 4 days of fun diving with a friend, upon my last day of my visit, I sat down with one of Bunaken’s current dive master trainees who got…
The Hairy Squat Lobster is one little critter our guests delight in seeing here in Lembeh. This photo was taken by our guests, Victor and Lynn. The scientific name for this guy is Lauriea Siagiani but they are also known as Anomura Crab, Fairy Lobster, Hairy Pink Lobster, Barrel Sponge Crab and Fairy Crab. They…
This week has been rather great in Amed, as we were surprised by a truly graceful Manta Ray during a dive at Pyramid, a coral reef, 5 minutes away from our Dive Resort by boat. A true surprise knowing we never see one of these beauties flying around Amed. The one we saw was a…
Dive Master Trainee Lauren in her last week in Bunaken – “…My time in Bunaken is coming to an end today after spending almost three weeks here. The feeling is bitter-sweet as this will be hard to beat, however I head to Lembeh next for a week of enjoying the world-renowned muck diving, which is exciting!…
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…