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,…
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 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…
Pom-Poms Come to Lembeh – It is not a title I ever thought I would use, but it happened this week! Check out this beautiful example of a Lybia tessellata, more commonly known as a Pom-Pom Crab or Boxer Crab, captured by our guests, Victor and Lynn. It is easy to see how they got…
This week in Bunaken we were lucky when our divers had one of the eagle’s of the oceans playing with them. This beautiful spotted eagle ray swam up from deep water to the shallows, and whilst it was playing with the divers they also had two white tip reef sharks was passing by and many…
Last Saturday night was date night in Lembeh for Mandarin Fish! Obviously, this particular guy or girl has just arrived to the party and has yet to mingle and meet his or her mate for the evening! These gorgeous creatures come out every night at dusk to perform their mating ritual, much to the delight…
This week, the magical soft coral crabs of Lembeh paid us a visit. The scientific name for this particular Soft Coral Crab is Hoplophrys Oatesi and is also known as the Candy Crab. The Candy Crab grows to about 1.5 to 2cm’s and has the ability to camouflage itself within the soft corals in which…
We had another amazing week in Bunaken! Longnose Hawkfish was the fish of the week! Lina who stayed with us for a week was very impressed with the beautiful corals and the huge amount of reef fish and turtles.Her highlight was a pair of longnose hawkfish and a white giant frogfish at Lekuan II. The…