Today's house reef snorkeling @ Bunaken Cha Cha

Beautiful Bunaken weather, this morning. Go Go Diving!!

Latest Snorkeling Photos from Bunaken Cha Cha

I gave camera to Mul (guide) to take some underwater photos during a snorkeling trip, but as soon as I opened that photo file, I could not help laughing, because almost 80% of them were "A Snorkeling Guest Model Show"!!! 😂

These are a few examples. 

Maybe I did not explain clearly what I needed but Mul must have thought he had to take many pictures of the guest  mainly.   hahaha😂... nice of him. 

anyway.. let me introduce some latest snorkeling pictures he took.

Thanks to our "Snorkeling Model".

Season Greetings! from Bunaken Cha Cha

 Wishing you a happy holidays and a wonderful New Year!!

Rendezvous date before dinner?? at Cha Cha Beach

"Our first dip into Bunaken"

End of October 2021 Snokeling into Bunaken.

Thanks to our snorkeler guests Frederic & Ilaria. 

Bunaken Cha Cha October2021 Diving part2

Bunaken Cha Cha Diving October2021

Diving Sep2021, Bunaken Island, Bunaken Cha Cha

Scoot - Mando to Singapore

 this morning, we found this in Manado Post.

it looks like there is a flight starting on Friday. (the poster said every Friday) 

maybe just for the cargo at this moment. but better than nothing..?!

Manado Post page link👇 (all in Bahasa Indonesia)

https://manadopost.jawapos.com/ekonomi-bisnis/29/04/2021/catat-28-mei-scoot-buka-penerbangan-manado-singapura/

picture from Manado Post.

Lace Monitor lizard - Bunaken

Lace monitor lizard (we think) living around our house.  

he/she comes out when it's very sunny day to get sun?  

we've seen him/her since when it was young and small. 

now it growing up quite big. body must be a meter long.

14Feb2021 Diving at Cha Cha 2 Point, Bunaken Cha Cha

This morning dive at Cha Cha2 point.

water temp. was 28-29℃.  the visability was not too bad. 

current : almost none. so it was very relaxing dive.

they are not in this movie, but we saw barracuda, napoleon fish, black tip shark and some of big turtles as well. 

we don't know the other side of the Bunaken, but no other dive boat around this side,  it was only us whole the time in this Chinese New Year Holiday Season. 

we finished and came up at just in front of Cha Cha. 😎 

Yellow-crested cockatoo

since last year, two of Yellow-crested cockatoo visiting often around our house.

A Happy New Year 2021!

 Wishing you good health, happiness, and success in this new year and always.

early morning was still raining and dark, but now it's really sunny weather, start getting quite hot!

Season Greetings from Bunaken Cha Cha

 We wish you all Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2021!! 

 

Recycle Home??

November Beach, Bunaken Cha Cha @ Bunaken Island.

A group of young fish gathering in front of Cha Cha Beach.

mission impossible?! Kingfisher

while we having breakfast, a bird dive into out dining area through the hole of extractor fan.
Lucky the fan was not on..

then we heard small "bang!"
it hit window glass, of course....

Riskal pick it up and said "it's dead..".
(no way! no way from morning...?!)

we had still doubt maybe maybe the bird is in shock.

Yap!
 it's recovered in his hand!!!!

that was a quite big size "Kingfisher".

when Riskal released it to garden, the Kingfisher took off immediately, energetically.


the wing color was so beautiful like emerald color, or turquoise.
Awesome!

TV presenter

It's sad news I read that one of famous female TV program presenter Ms.Kumiko Okae died because of the virus.
we knew her because of the TV program "Poka Poka Chikyu Kazoku" we were in 2005.

This Program introduced many Japanese person like me went abroad to work or got married with local or foreigners and startup their own business.

so it was about us and Bunaken Island and local people with us.


The program invited "Madam Dewi" (Dewi Sukarno)  who is former Indonesian president second wife as a guest in the TV Studio.

in the studio, they ate "Dabu Dabu" and "Bubur Manado" we recommended to them.
Ms.Kumiko (presenter) tasted Manado food while they are watching video of our life style on Bunaken Island.

she is almost same age like us. pity.. who knew what will happened 15 years later... ?

our deepest sympathies to her, to all loss.