It’s amazing what you see in the mangroves and eel grass in front of Two Fish Divers, even at low tide, if you keep your eyes peeled! This week, amongst other critters, there was a Long Spine Porcupine Fish seen hunting in Bunaken.
Ever seen a Long Fin Banner Fish and a Moorish Idol in the same room? The Moorish Idol is a common Indo-Pacific fish that we often see in Bunaken National Marine Park and is the only member left of the family Zanclidae. We see them here on most dive sites but in some parts of the…
After three weeks full of amazing dives around the island of Bunaken in the National Marine Park, I would like to share my thoughts about this time in general and about a certain fish in particular. The Schools of Red Tooth Trigger Fish in Bunaken leave me just speechless! You definitely see no other fish…
Doing underwater clean up dives keeps our dive sites clean, is great for the environment and fun too. The many nudibranchs we see here appreciate the clean up dives we carry out in Bunaken. We saw a few of the common species of nudibranch on our regular Dive Against Debris and managed to save a…
Dawn dives in Bunaken let us get up close and personal with white tip reef sharks. Getting up early for a 6am dive is worth it when you realise what you might get the chance to see and we weren’t disappointed this week. Clare, Katharina, Camile and Daniel all joined Tian and Colin and were…
If you love turtles, Bunaken is for you. At one point in time I had seven turtles in my field of vision. The turtles here are so relaxed and inquisitive they routinely swim by you just to have a look. As a keen underwater photographer I love photographing macro subjects but Bunaken is best known…
We have been encountering chains of Salps around Bunaken recently, some colonies are really long, but these misunderstood creatures aren’t as scary as you might first think. In the last two weeks of diving in Bunaken we have seen hundreds of salps on our dive sites, from individuals, to chains of 20-30 or more. They…
Did you know that the Bunaken Marine Park was one of the first Marine Protected Areas in Indonesia? It’s also where we first set up our home and our first Two Fish Divers Resort – Two Fish Bunaken Resort. We fell in love with Bunaken’s charm, stunning wall dives and we are sure you will…