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

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