Dugon at the house reef of Bunaken ChaCha 2Nov2018

Lekuan2 point

Lekuan 2 point.
water temp.28℃
many turtles in and out from Bunaken wall.
A group of Midnight snappers swam around us.
In the deep water, we also saw a group of Jackfish, which was bit too deep to take photo though.

Dry season?!

in Japan, lot of place are suffering by strong typhoon, instead here in Cha Cha,

almost no rain for 3 weeks.

Though hibiscus looks happy having lot's of flower, palm tree definitely need rain!!

Thank you greeting and Sayonara time for guest

Cha Cha ladies 

next job will be a farmer ...??

The prices for anything imported are very expensive here in Indonesia.
so we bought few seed of vegetables from Italy if we can start to glow our own.
the picture is sprout of bell peppers which is Agnes's 3rd trial to plant this type.
 ummm let's see and hope.😊

A price of bell pepper is US$10 each?? in the local supermarket.

for some reason the yellow one is more expensive than the red one. 

maybe people likes "GOLDEN COLLOR"??

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An extra picture from meat section in the super market.

 please pass this if you don't want to see it.... 

"Bat"

traditional ingredients used for local cuisine

October festival ?!

October festival?!

Agnes and our staff organized a beach party for our guests before we coming back.
Wow! looks fun!!!   also local band with hand made guitar. Nice👍

Bunaken Cha Cha is NOT affected by the earthquake.

Just let you all know that Bunaken Cha Cha was not affected by the earthquake today that happened in Central Sulawesi, thanks to everyone who contacted us asking if we were ok ........felt nothing.

Thank you, everyone! ☺️

Bunaken Island Diving 2018 by Kimberly & Michael

Sunrise this morming.

Sunrise this morning

photo by Riskal. Sambu

BIG SUN?!

Today's Sun looks incredibly BIG?! due to cirrocumulus clouds.

Good morning!

Night Dive in Timur2 point, Bunaken Island

A wonderful night dive we had.

the scene we never see before - a crab giving birth!!!  (you can see at end part of the video)

unfortunately I was too close to the crab, so it's became out of focus on the crab itself, but can you see all tiny new born babies??

Our bird departed to heaven yesterday.

Our bird went to heaven yesterday.

We are not the type of people who likes to keep animals / birds caged but we often got them as a gift from friends or staff or people we know, this bird was one of them.

These almost 4 years he was with us, he gave us some good memories especially the day when he escaped from his cage and flew back to the cage three days later.  

He had good strong voice, could resembling so many different birds around Cha Cha. We assume he tried to communicate with them. 

Two days ago, a mysterious things happened at late night - normally he suppose to be already asleep that late, but he called with perfect voice just like a “Tarsius monkey" (Sulawesi spectrum - wild monkey live around Cha Cha) only for one time.

We are wondering and hoping that's not going to be a last message to his evening time friend Tarsius. 

Unfortunately that was it.  

Due to few days of stormy nights, (even I got extremely cold at night), our old cute bird could not cope with cold wet weather I assume. 

Thank you bird! 

We never forget about you. Enjoy freedom with your buddy in beautiful tropical heaven.

found baby spadefish (batfish) before sunset on the beach

June2018 Diving at Muka Kampung

we enjoyed peaceful dive at Muka Kampung two days ago.
hope you can see tiny bubbles coming out from turtle while he/she aiming to the surface of the water.

Bunaken Sunrise 3May2018

Dugong2018, Bunaken Cha Cha

Bunaken Cha Cha, Diving, April 2018

Killer Whale eating Mora Mora in front of Cha Cha!!!!

What a exciting event!!
Our guests left Cha Cha going diving, they saw this amazing event!
3 Killer whale eating a Mora Mora (moon fish/sun fish)!

Big Thanks to Ms.Shu Mei!!!

Sunday weather!

until this morning it was drizzling but now it's very nice sunny day.

it's rained very hard las night, then drizzling till this morning.
we heard Tarcius Monkeys voices in the rain, then also their morning call was so loud and woke us up.
Always feel "living with nature" here.
Have a good Sunday!