Two Fish Divers Lembeh was an amazing place to start my journey of becoming a divemaster! While there were many things to learn during my first week of divemaster training, the peaceful jungle setting of Lembeh provided a relaxing balance. The week began with learning how to demonstrate different scuba skills. It’s one thing to…
There is much more to the spot-fin porcupine fish (Diodon hystrix) than those cute big eyes: with many defense mechanisms, porcupine fish are not so defenseless in Bunaken. Being related to the puffer fish they have similar techniques for fending off would be predators.
Lembeh Strait offers the opportunity to discover many marine creatures such as blue-ringed octopus, rhinopias, Lembeh sea dragons, harlequin shrimps, flamboyant cuttlefish, mandarin fish and much more! Here in Two fish Divers Lembeh, we are lucky enough to enjoy these wonders every day. Today at Nudi Retreat, one of our wonderful diving spots, we had…
As Lalo proved it to Nick and Wilfried this week, it’s quite easy for our guides to find Whip Coral Shrimp in Bunaken. His keen eyes spotted one of the least common; the Dragon Shrimp (miropandalus hardingi) which is about 2cm long. Although it looks like the Zanzibar Whip Coral Shrimp (dasycaris zanzibarica) which has…
Lembeh Strait is the main muck diving place in the world, it offers world-class diving all around the year and you can see plenty of critters barely seen elsewhere, like the Lembeh sea dragon, rare nudibranchs, uncommon frogfishes, and incredible octopuses. But what to do in Two Fish Lembeh if you are not diving or…
I have spent 7 weeks in this Bunaken paradise and it has been an amazing time! About a week or so ago I completed my Divemaster training with Two Fish Divers Bunaken. As I sit here and write this I can officially say that I am a PADI Divemaster.
Fish come in all shapes and sizes which is why diving in the coral triangle at a place like Bunaken is such a treat. Some species are in an order called tetradontiformes which groups together all the weird shaped fish like triggerfish; pufferfish and even the ocean sunfish (mola mola), but one of our favorites…
Often overlooked by divers coming in Lembeh in search of emblematic critters of the area, like mimic octopus, rhinoplasty or Lembeh sea dragons, ascidians are beautiful creatures. The kind of things we can see in each dive site around without realizing how pretty they are. Particularly here in Lembeh Strait, we can observe a huge…