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…
We broke a new turtle record this week – on Tina’s two discover scuba dives we saw in total over 20 turtles as the Gili’s lived up to its reputation for turtle-mania!! Before her first ever dive, she told her instructor Kay that she would be very happy to see at least one turtle. Thought…
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 Amed we had a very close encounter with a turtle that posed for us. The photographer behind the camera is Derek Cheah, from the very close-by Singapore, who came diving with his Family for several days. This beauty is a Hawksbill turtle (“Eretmochelys Imbricata” if you want to go crazy), named after…
This week, we were happy that we could show our customers a wide range of aquatic life. We had some white tip reef sharks hiding underneath an outcropping rock, our Instructor Kuss was very lucky to see some cute Juvenile Eagle Rays with his students at our dive site “Bounty”. And we also found some…
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…