Bunaken Dugong appeared near Cha Cha 2 Point.

Big News!!!

News 1.

2nd of September (two days ago), our guest saw

 BUNAKEN DUGONG

near Cha Cha 2 point while he was snorkeling between the dive.

The guest said that Dugong was bigger than him.

Congratulation!!

Dugong, this picture was taken by R.Downey 2004.

U/W beauty from T.Weller Family.

Lot's of beautiful pictures and memory.

☆☆☆Thanks to T.Weller Family ☆☆☆

Orangutan Crab

Coral Banded Shrimp

International Airports "On-Time Performance" World Top 10

From Press Release of
 "FLIGHT STATS"



The FlightStats July 2013 On-time Performance Report Summary:

 Major International Airports

(HND) Tokyo’s Haneda held its top spot among the world’s busiest airports with an on-time performance of 91.28%. In June, three Asian Airports, three North American airports, three European airports, and one Australian Airport were in the top ten. The average on-time departure performance among the top 35 international airports was 69.66% up slightly from July’s rate of 69.26% and cancellations for the group were 1.82% down from May’s rate of 1. 99%. Stormy weather in North America and overall consistently weak performance by Chinese airports kept the overall airport performance average low.

The top ten performers among international airports were:

1 Tokyo (HND)         91.28%
2 Munich (MUC)      86.12%
3 Tokyo (NRT)         84.90%
4 Seattle (SEA)        83.63%
5 Amsterdam (AMS) 82.67%
6 Minneapolis (MSP) 81.84%
7 Singapore (SIN)   81.75%
8 Frankfurt (FRA)    81.74%
9 Phoenix (PHX)     80.99%
10 Sydney (SYD)    80.11%

Meeting with "Napoleon wrasse" in front of CHA CHA.

Meet Napoleon wrasse while diving / snorkeling in front of Cha Cha.

Young "Varnus salvator sp."??

We found monitor lizard in a hole, we think these are called "Varanus salvator sp."
They are still young ones and it's look like they were born there thus we are still wondering whether to save them or leave them there if there are enough food and comfortable for them in that hole... ummm...

They can swim and eat small fish or some marine life on the beach. We saw once it took big risk and came  out so far to hung around the reef when it's very low tide at lunch time. That one was almost 2 meter long (body1m, tail 1m long) monitor lizard.

Photo by Reiko Downey
Bunaken Cha Cha Nature Resort

Unicorn Fish (テングハギ)

Cha Cha becomes Techy...??

"Cha Cha becomes Techy……just slightly"

Now guests bar bill is automated so no more trying to decipher what is written on your bar bill,
thanks to iPad and great new software.

Favorinus sp.???? found on Bunaken wall.

A type of Favorinus sp. No. ??? I think....

Body size was only 5mm.

↓ It is bit similar like this one??

http://www.seaslugforum.net/showall/favosp5

Hermit Crab

Hermit crab - was in 5m deep reef at Cha Cha 2 Point.  Shell size was around 12cm.

Fish Fish Fish! of drop off at Bunaken Island.

A typical view of Bunaken drop off.

Enjoy Private beach on Bunaken Island

Bunaken ----- The Relax Island.

Congratulations! Lotta and Martin Wedding Day - 29th May.

Lotta and Martin Wedding was on 29th May. 

 ♥Congratulations!!♥

Cha Cha from the sea.

Beautiful sky!

Great dane "Chiko"

Our great dane "Chiko" putting her bottom on my foot while we were talking to guests.

New Toy for Raf "Anti Stress Green Man"

This was gift from our Japanese guests Aya and Ritsuko to Raf.

"Anti Stress Green Man"  

Made of slimy gell body, so you can squash them, throw them at to the wall, fold them, or you can put a particular name before you do all that...  Fantastico~~~!!!

The World New Discovery?? Blinking Nudibranch on Bunaken Island night dive.

World New discovery??

At night dive around Bunaken, I was filming a short movie to see what's the result of the combination of my new torch and digital camera.

while I was filming this non active nudibranch, I realized this one start blinking it's body color. I was so surprised.  I knew few nudibranch are able to make right inside body and people can see if it's in the dark.  But this one was blinking and changing body color reacting to the torch right.
Amazing!!!  maybe this is "The World New Discovery"??
It's also easier to see this process through the camera screen, because when I tried to see without screen, it was difficult to see the blinking, but through the digital screen, you can see like this.
Enjoy the short video!  ↓


Video by Reiko Downey (Bunaken Cha Cha Nature Resort)

Night dive beauty - Amazing creatures at night on Bunaken Wall.

Night dive at Tanjung Parigi beach, Bunaken Island.

Basket seastar

Huge Nudibranch 

Actinia equina on the wall of Bunaken Island

Sunset behind Manado Tua Island.

Just before night dive, we could see sunset.

Late afternoon weather on Bunaken

quite often rain and thunder at late afternoon nowadays.... 

Plaga Wine Tasting Party at Cocoon, Bali.

Meet a fresh and modern local wine from Indowines.
Enjoyed "Plaga Wine Party" at COCOON in Bali,  20April.