Two Mantaray in Cha2 point.

Swiss guest saw TWO "Manta ray" in Cha Cha 2 point!!!

I saw "Manta ray" in front of Cha Cha snorkelling, and also diving, but here around Bunaken, normally you can see "Eagle ray" but "Manta ray" is very rare.

again, very lucky guest!!

Dugong in front of Cha Cha

Umm.. Full moon power...?!  Lucky guests saw Dugong for two days!!!
one is this one in front of Cha Cha. and Yesterday in Fukui, they saw a Mom Dugong with her baby on her top, guests saw twice in one point. Wow!!!

Have a look this link when you are upset....

 Even if you do not like animals so much,  this might make you smile I think.

"Videos to watch when you are upset"
https://twitter.com/kokoromidaregif

Thank you, Guests!! from children at Alung Banua Village.

Our guests brought stationary and medical bandage for school children.

so this time we provide them to a school in Alung Banua Village in Bunaken Island.

Thank you very much!!

wonderful color at Sunrise this morming.

The pastel color gradation of the sky was amazing this morning.

Hello again!! in Forbes Magazine.

we got "Forbes Asia" magazine from friend.

While turning pages, it's nice to recognise one of our guest face. 

Happy Smile!!!

The leader of this swimming club is Ms.Teruko Onuki(the 4th person from the right in the back)
She is the first Japanese Dover channel swimmer (she has made 2 solo channel swims).

List of the successful "English Channel Japanese Swimers"
https://www.dover.uk.com/channel-swimming/swims/all/japan/csa

https://www.dover.uk.com/channel-swimming/swimmers/teruko-onuki

TTIV (typical tropical island view)

Backyard of Cha Cha. 

Typical tropical island view

Birthday and Wedding anniversary!

Congratulation!! 

16Apr2017Tiwoho&Cha2

This was just the other day.

had quite good visibility in Tiwoho and Cha Cha 2 point.

In the middle of the movie, there is a fish who got gray color head and red body, this one must be one of the version of  Firetail Dottyback, Labracinus cyclophthalmus (Müller & Troschel 1849) I guess.

I've seen similar one many years ago but just very quickly on the reef at Timor point, but not sure if it's same one or not.
In more than 20 years of diving here, this maybe the second time I saw this one. normally they are hiding deep inside coral thus does not come out at all.   wow.. very very rare fish!!!
I could not go any closer because they are very shy, but you can see at least it's swimming! Amazing.. never seen them swimming before.

Enjoy!

Bunaken Cha Cha April 2017 Diving

Beautiful diving video from James.



Thank you!!!

Life goes on.

This morming, we had news from staff that our youngest dog "Brexy" gave birth to some puppies last night.
Brexy herself is still too young to have puppies though.. (she was born last year on "Brexit Day")

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from a death, new life start again...

only a week ago, we lost our oldest family(dog) and great grandmother "Chin chan" .
She was really great mother of all doggies we got now.

we hope she was released from all pain and running around with joy again with her younger brother Gonzo together in beautiful place.

Thank you, Chin chan, we never forget many wonderful memories of many years (
almost 13 years) with you.

and

Thank you to all friends and guests who gave her lot of love and support.

Amazing rainbow at moment.

It's beautiful rainbow at moment.

Manado Tua Diving - Bunaken Cha Cha

Manado Tua

both sea fan - almost 2m hight

Afternoon dive in Timur point

very rare to see relaxed "Comet" out side of the dark hole on the Bunaken wall

Our villas - blue sky day

Brexy - youngest one

Night Dive in Tanjung Parigi

Last night was very calm sea again and moon was not coming out yet.
almost no current, water temp. was 27℃, sometimes I felt chill compare to 29℃ in day time.

Twinspot lionfish

Tiger cowry

Harmit crab

Pencil urchin

Orbicular Damsel (sleeping color)

type of anemone coral

sponge

Blue ring octopus

crab

harmit crab

sleeping red-tooth triggerfish

Back in business! The good visibility is back!

Afternoon dive in Cha cha 2 point.
on the surface current was going to Manado direction, but after jumped in, it was totally opposite direction (It's call "Nimaijio" in Japanese).
Water temp. was 29℃ as usual but bit warmer side, but I was very happy to see this good visibility went back to normal.
to watching this calm flat see, I could not believe we had big wave till just few days ago at Manado side thus not so easy to close over to main land.

Rainbow runner

Regal angelfish

more like

"Halimeda ghost pipefish - Red version"

than Robust Ghost Pipefish??

Very nice to see the group of "Pacific sail fin tang" passing through like river. 

also we saw

Two-spot red snapper, Bluefin trevally doing hunting, Napoleon fish, Giant moray, etc, etc......

Diving in Manado Tua and Bunaken

Today was beautiful sunny day in the morning.
We dived in Tanjung Kopi on Manado Tua Island, and Raimond point at Bunaken Island.
In Tanjung Kopi, we saw GT, Tuna, Jack fish, Rainbow runner, big Napoleon fish in gentle current.
Watching "Rockmover wrasse" busy moving some coral rocks, it's has such a red eyes looks like DORACULA eyes.

Found small crab looks like just a piece of coral.
Water temp.  was 29℃, Visibility about 15m, not bad at all in rainy season.

Rockmover Wrasse

Huge coral bommie in Raimond (Bunaken)

small crab

lot's of amazing big coral mommies in Raimond point (Bunaken)