Previously we discovoered a smooth green phycocaris species that we believe is undescribed and lives in tiny green ascidians. We have already seen it several times (at various divesites) since then. And that was also what we were trying to find yesterday, when we suddenly saw this little green thing on one of the ascidians.…
Today’s mornig dives have been great again: We saw Pygmy Seahorses, Bandtail Frogfish, cool Nudibranchs and various uncommon Shrimps on the first dive at Tanjung Kareeko and several Painted Frogfishes, rare Nudibranchs, shrimps and lots of other cool stuff on our second dive at “Bianca”. But the coolest thing we saw just when surfacing from…
Lembeh offers not only excellent Muck Diving the whole day long – the night dives are actually the most spectacular ones. And they are versatile: Coral, Rubble or Muckdive … there are lot’s of different styles of Night diving to experience here in Lembeh Strait. With so many critters to see – either things you don’t…
Today is boxing day – so what could be a better Critter to write about than the Boxer Crab (Lybia tesselata, Pom Pom Crab or Mosaic Boxer Crab). But not only does its name fit the date. It is also a very popular Critter here in Lembeh – specially if you keep in mind that…
Before i even start with this post: Thank you to everbody crazy enough about diving to read our BLOG on Christmas day. We hope you all have a good time where ever you are – even if there is no Muck diving around. But back to the post: Of course we don’t have snow here in…
Yesterday we took out “Pygmy” (our white Fiber Speedboat) for a Seatrial after completely cleaning the Hull and maintaining the 85 Yamaha Engine. So i packed 3 Guides (Johan, Joni and Stenly) on the boat and we cruised with high speed to a survey dive to Magic Crack – a place we haven’t dived for…
On yesterdays afternoon dive at “Nudi Falls” i spend the whole dive photographing Gobies – so i had a 100mm lens on the camera. And i really started regretting that, when reaching Safety Stop level at the end of the dive: Just below the boat was this beautiful pair of Nudibranchs mating. They were Hypselodoris…
This week Mood – one of our repeater guests that has been here at NAD Lembeh many times – found this yellow Nudibranch at Nudifalls: a Bristly Jorunna (jorunna pavra). He had never seen this particular Nudi before, so he stayed there for a while. Eventually he recognized a little white “Blob” at the gills…
In Lembeh Strait, there are a lot of things to see. Also on NAD Lembeh housereef – We have wrecks, coral patches, algae fields, seagrass, rubble, coral and sand. But we also have something that is not really something that you would expect on a “mucky” housereef: A school of Barracudas. Ok, they are juveniles,…
The Hairy Shrimp (phycocaris simulans, left in the picture) is a very small shrimp and not much is known about it. But in Lembeh it can be seen on a regular basis. Over the last few months we have seen hairy shrimps in all colourations (white, yellow, red, beige, brown, green and even some blue…