Dugong at House Reef Snorkeling.

Lucky encounter with Dugong (Sea Cow) with baby on her back. Some guests already have seen them at Cha Cha House Reef while snorkeling, seems that they can be seen all year round.

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A group of young Squid appeared in Tiwoho point.

Young group of Squid appeared in Tiwoho point.

A cute souvenir from Ireland.

Raf got Finnegan (The King of the Leprechauns / Irish Icon) from Irish guests.
Thanks Peter and Marion!!

Meet Bunaken Elmo at U/W "Sesame Street"??

Meet Bunaken Elmo!

Skeleton Shrimp or The Worms from MIB 2 ?

Some great days Scuba Diving around Manado/ Bunaken Marine Park the last few weeks with heaps and heaps of macro life and also a few unusual encounters.

The Skeleton Shrimp is one of the unusual encounters of recent weeks, these are Crustaceans of the infraorder Caprellida, the name denotes their threadlike slender body which allows them to virtually disappear amongst the fine filaments of seaweed, hydroids and bryozoans.

The Skeleton Worm moves much the same way as an inchworm as it extends its forearms and retracts its legs, not unsimilar the the movement of a caterpillar; the male is slightly larger than the female and darker in color, measuring about 12 mm in length.

It could be that they are around Bunaken at this time of the year for breeding as many of the ones photographed seemed to have unusually large brood pouches (see photo), this is where they keep their eggs till they hatch, research shows that the female will kill the male once the eggs have been fertilized....nice one girls!!!

Another unusual fact is the similarity between The Worms in MIB 2 and the Skeleton Shrimp, though to be honest I haven't seen any of these Shrimps drink Coffee yet !!!

Skeleton Shrimp

The Worms from MIB 2

We met small group of Dolphins yesterday between Cha Cha to Manado Tura island, they were jumping so high!!

Golden Trevally orphan?

Maybe he thought he had found " Big Brother"....Two !!!

Jealous ???

The amazing Golden Juvenile Trevally (12 cm), as he get older he will loose some of his yellowness but instead can grow to 120 cm in length, the juveniles are famous for "hanging out" with other fish that are bigger than themselves and on some occasions can be seen accompanying Dugongs.......amazing.

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Book Bound Bunaken Team arrived!!

Book Bound Bunaken Team has arrived!!

The first "Book Buddy" up with children of Tanjung Parigi village on Bunaken Island, supported by Bunaken Cha Cha Nature Resort.

Book Bound Indonesia run in Jakarta with two mobile Libraries serving about 600 children, and they also operating in Pakistan, too.

Briefing session.

Look for your "Book Buddy" with Treasure Hunting game style in the jungle...?

This activity caused great excitement for the local children and village people.
In near future, the idea is the Tanjung Parigi village will donate a building to BBB, an empty small school building that needs renovation, if they do then BBB will donate the money for restoration and put books in there, they will hire a person in there and open the BBB Library to children to come and read books there, once a week the person will go, by bike to other villages and stay there at the Heads house and children can come and read the books and discuss.

Bunaken Cha Cha Nature Resort will be honor to be a supporter of this BBB project.

Bunaken & Manado Underwater Photos

Some more Photos

Bunaken & Manado Underwater Photos

Orangutan crab photos taken on 9th September 2009 at Bunaken

"A Bad Hair Day"

Bunaken Birthday Girl "Emi Chan"

A few photos of our birthday girl " Emiko"

Amazing Bunaken National Marine Park

Well we have now celebrated 10 years on Bunaken.....one day I will have to tell the story, in the mean time here are few more of my better photos so far this year

Bat Fish at Fukui Point

Cuttlefish on Night Dive

"It was me...." Clown Fish

Total Solar Eclipse from Bunaken 26th January 2009

Here are some photos taken of the Solar Eclipse on 26th January 2009.

The Total Eclipse was at 18.00, which was the same time as the setting sun.

So Long

Agh...... its been so long since I updated our blog, now so much to tell, so where to begin?

Ok new arrivals...May last year saw the arrival of Chiko to Cha Cha, well here is a series of updates of her during the last year.

Chiko

Another hard day

Friends

Snorkeling Pontoon

Here is a photo of the New Snorkeling Pontoon in front of Cha Cha.

Ideal for having a rest while snorkeling on Cha Cha House Reef or just

relax and catch the last afternoon sun rays.

More Pictures from Diving at Bunaken

Here are some more Photos taken recently in and around Bunaken

Blue Ribbon Eel

Garden Eel

Goby and Shrimp

Ghost Pipefish

Another Critter from Bunaken

Here is something for the Lovers of "Macro"

Espresso and Cappuccino lands on Bunaken

Ok so we may not be so sophisticated as the Nespresso Cafe

but who cares......the important thing is that now you can have

a great espresso or cappuccino on Bunaken too and hey George...

"the young ladies were talking about Cha Cha not you or the coffee!!!"