Cool Lembeh Video
Here’s a video by one of our lovely guests, Lou Smith. The was Lou’s first macro trip shooting video with an SLR and she was very frustrated in the first few days but battled through and produced this lovely film:
Happy New Year from the NAD Lembeh Family!
Last night we shared a few drinks with the staff team and guests, and did the fireworks nice and early so everyone could enjoy. Singing, dancing and no photos we dare publish! We hope you had a happy new year and would like to thank those that visited us this year I also finished…
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Spirit of Lembeh 2014 – my year in Photos
Now it’s Christmas and another year at NAD-Lembeh is about to end. I don’t do calendars – but i still want to post some of my favourite images of 2014. And because it is not a calendar i took the freedom to choose 3 photos per month and make a little “36 Images Film Roll”. So…
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Dive Team: New Guides
To be able to offer our 2:1 Ratio (2 Guests with one Diveguide) at the quality level our guests are used to we not only had to find some new guides – we had to find some really good ones. So let us introduce the latest three additions to our Dive Team (from left to right): Jony, Tamrin…
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2:1 Dive Guide Ratio at NAD-Lembeh
Since this April we were running a trial on our “2:1” Dive Guide Ratio which was then permanently implemented this summer. But still a lot of people are coming into our resort not knowing about this at all. Well … Good things you can’t say often enough. So here one more time: At NAD-Lembeh we offer a…
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Mudskippers: Gobies that leave the Ocean
Dive, Dive, Eat, Dive, Dive, Eat, Download Photos, Sleep … The Lembeh Dive Day mainly consists of Diving. Because People that come to Lembeh mainly want two things: Critters & Photos. But there is also some really cool Non-Diving Critters to be seen. Besides Tarsiers, Insects, Birds and others there are even Fish to be seen…
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Melibe colemani in Lembeh
We found it. In Lembeh. Yeeeha! No joke: Last week NAD-Lembeh found the Melibe colemani in Lembeh Strait. Even though some of our guides previously said, that he had already seen it … well we did not really believe as we have not seen photos. Sorry guys, we were wrong. But now we have photos and videos to prove 😉 This…
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The Lined Dart Fish: In the deep you’ll find a heap
Like the magnificent Shrimp Goby or the Purple Fire Goby, the Lined Dartfish is one of the spectacular Goby species to be seen in Lembeh Strait that usually are found “a bit deeper”. And while the first two can be seen already from 25 meters downwards you are more or less lucky if you see a…
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Hohoho … it’s Rhinotime again
It is late November again, Christmas is coming closer again … and again we found a new Rhinopias in Lembeh Strait. This time it is a juvenile Weedy Scorpionfish (Rhinopias frondosa) – red colour and still just over the size of a matchbox. We’ll try to keep it secret as long as possible and of course…
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UW Photo Tips: Photographing Flasher Wrasses
For UW Photographers Flasher Wrasses are very popular and hated subjects at the same time. Because they are very beautiful but also very tricky to shoot and demand a lot of skill and patience. The Flasher Wrasses swim in the water column, frequently change speed and direction and the males display their beautiful colour pattern…
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