Lagoon dive, Bunaken Island

We did sunset(night dive) lagoon dive yesterday to see "Mandarin Dragonet" - body size around 3 or 4 cm, it's surely catch your eyes with that colorful pattern on their body.
It was great dive to also see some different creatures who live on the sandy & muddy bottom of the lagoon.

Mandarin Dragonet - mandarinfish

Barred fin Moray Eel

Mandarin Dragonet - mandarinfish

Pajama Cardinalfish

Cha Cha Fish(young - Many spotted Sweetlips)

Spiky Devilfish

Chinese New Year

Lot's of boat on Sunday around Bunaken Island.

water was very murky due to the storm we had, but when the sunshine came back, it was not too bad  in the shallow water.

for the coral reef, this murky water must be necessary process to grow.

after the bad storm.

Sun rise after few days of bad storm passed through.

Lucky golden color creature on New Years Day.

Feeling lucky after we saw this tiny but beautiful golden color Pontohi pygmy seahorse!

though body size is only less than 1cm.  

1st dive in Mikes point was so so visibility due to lot of rain in these few days and gentle down current with surge made us little bit of sea sickness while we were looking down on the coral reef. 

The water temp. was 29℃, I think it too warm water still but we saw couple of sharks in deeper. 

Luckily Lekuan point was quite clear vis. compare to 1st dive, and I noticed that new group of coral started to grow on shallow reef top.   Awesome!! (Photo by Ritsuko)

Lyretail anthias

Happy New Year 2017!

Happy New Year 2017 to everybody!!!

New years eve was raining ... it was chucking it down. so we did our fireworks event last night so as many other resorts around this island, they were beautiful to watch while we having dinner though it was much more exciting to watch our fireworks right on top of us after dinner!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Have a nice holiday week!

The Second Super Moon.

Moon rise was fantastic tonight again.

Meet the local crab in the house.

we often meet crab in the house. they come out sometimes from shower hole, sometimes from small gap at the door and make us surprise. It/he/she was at the door of shower room.

Closer to Super moon night.

ChaCha Tarcius monkey voice at 4Nov2016

Morning snack time for Cha Cha doggies.

Having difficulty to make Brexy(puppy) to sit down and wait without jumping to get snack. (^^;)

Have a nice weekend!!

We had October festival in Bunaken?!

Our repeater guests M & J brought "The Traditional Beer Mug" from Germany.
They remembered their promise to Raf from last year. It's fantastic!!!
It must been very heavy carrying them around while they were doing trip in other areas and islands in Indonesia. It's like 4kg total or more?! including a liter of PAULANER beer can.

Thank you very much M & J!!! 

Yesterday Dolphin Watching from Cha Cha.

Found a "Blue-ringed octopus"!

At the end of the nice&relaxing afternoon dive, we found "Blue-ringed octopus" (the last picture). when they are upset or angry, you can see some blue rings all over their body, actually it's quite cute looking small octopus even though they are known as one of the world's most venomous marine animals.

Today's Bunaken.

MGood morning. 

We just saw group of dolphins. 

Time to say "See you next time!"

Thanks Chris, Owen, John visiting us again!

 So~~~ many thanks to Chris & Owen brought lot's of garden equipment again and also BIG thanks to John for the panoramic photos!

Good morning! Nice day walk with our puppies.

Diving Bunaken Island, Indonesia 12Sep 2016

Welcome to Bunaken Cha Cha - A taste of nature

New age snorkeling mask

French guests showed us his new mask for snorkeling. 

Stress free from water coming in and no more snorkel into your mouth. 

We have not tried yet in the water but the French guest was so so happy with the mask and andrecommended. 

The price was around 50 euro he said. 

Fresh Italian Tomato and herbs from Reiko's small garden.

we planted Italian mini tomato in May and amazingly doing very well at moment. Many of them were ready to harvest, so we tasted them at dinner time, mixed with fresh coriander as a side dish of Japanese style tuna steak with original sauce.
umm.. that was Yummy!  
Tomato had slightly thick skin but the taste like full sun!

Siau Island - volcano island of North Sulawesi

After some rain, when air became quite clear, we can see Siau island on the horizon far away sometimes. This morning early I could see one, even bit of smoke coming out from the top.
This Siau Island is called "Gunungapi Karang Etang" - one of the live volcano island of North Sulawesi.
if you want to see the map, click this link
http://geospasial.bnpb.go.id/2010/08/06/peta-wilayah-gunungapi-karang-etang-prov-sulawesi-utara/

Siau island with clouds.

Passion flower at our balcony in Cha Cha.

After Raf looked after with care,  quite few beautiful passion flower bloomed!

Fisherman caught huge "Yellowfin Tuna"!!!

Huge Tuna delivered by local fisherman!!

A type of lunch menu on Silk air flight to Manado.

A type of lunch menu on Silk air coming from Singapore to Manado airport.

Rice noodle with fish. 

sometimes surprisingly spicy food on board. 

Start seen Bunaken. the right corner - east corner of Bunaken is Cha Cha.

Welcome to Bunaken - the sea of marine diversity!

 octopus

Juvenile Pomacanthus

Bumphead parrotfish

 nudibranch

Ribbon egg clusters of Spanish dancer nudibranch 

Dolphins around Bunaken. ブナケン島周辺のイルカたち

Sunshine around Bunaken and Manado Tua.

Very good weather around Bunaken.

Good morning.

MOTOGP - Forza Vale "VALE THE GOAT"!!!!!

MotoGP race in Assen (Live here at 20:00). We are big fan of Vale(Valentino Rossi), of course!!!!!

On the Brexit Day....

Nana had puppy on the Brexit Day.  Guests and us are thinking to put name "Brexy" for a girl...
maybe....