Lembeh is a treasure Chamber for Critter lovers and the abundance of species and varieties makes identification difficult at times. That’s why we have a very very complete Marine Life and Fish ID Library at NAD Lembeh – with some comfortable sofas in our air conditioned “Dry Camera Room“. You have seen a Shrimp, Octopus,…
Cindi just spend a week of diving here at NAD Lembeh and decided to do a one day photocourse with us. She picked up the theory really quickly and came out with some stunning shots on her course dives and also afterwards she started getting better and better. And that only with a little Olympus…
On a dive last week i found this cool Hypselodoris at Hairball 2 – one of the famous Black sand Muck Dives of Lembeh Strait. According to Nudi books it is a “Red-Blotched Hypselodoris”. No matter how it is called – it is a very beautiful Nudibranch and i really kept watching it until my…
Lembeh is famous for Muckdives and Critters … but also on Land there is a lot to see in our Resort – for exemple in the garden. We have been very busy planting various Chilies, herbs, flowers and fruits and we can now proudly announce that finally the first one of our pineapple…
One of the funniest things we have seen in the last week was this little Chromodoris Nudibranch. We were diving our first morning Dive in Critter Hunt – a white rubble sand muck dive on a little Island in the Lembeh Strait. After seeing lots of cool Critters in the deeper area we came shallow…
Even though it’s already November and the Ghost Pipefish Bloom usually is rather from August until October, we still see lots of them around. Many couples and Individuals of Ornate Ghost Pipefish in all colour variations, Halimeda Ghost Pipefish on different locations, many Robust Ghost Pipefish, Thin Ghost Pipefish and several Roughsnout (Hairy) Ghost Pipefish.…
Today was a great day of diving again – with lots of different types of Octopus, Frogfish, Hairy Shrimp, Flamboyant Cuttlefish and many other things. But my highlight of the day was this Cardinalfish in a Coca Cola Bottle. You find these little Cardinalfish quite often in Lembeh when you are checking the various bottles…
On the seventh of November we had a very special Birthday Event: Bob – one of our Guests – celebrated his 66th birthday and Serge – our Dive manager – celebrated his 33rd birthday. That makes a accumulated birthday of 99 years! Here you see the two getting their birthday cakes … Bob the traditional version…
It is now already more than one year that Mike Veitch left NAD Lembeh to work on the Liveaboard “Damai”. Since then he is constantly diving Indonesia’s best divespots – and discovering the hot spots of tomorrow. We are happy everytime he makes it with his boat here to Lembeh – for the rest of…
Finally went diving again today! After a cool first dive at Kapal Indah with 6 Ghost Pipefishes, Pygmy Seahorses, 3 Sawblade Shrimps, Xenocrab, Nudis and and and, we went for the second dive to Pulau Abadi. Our Mission: Find the first Blue Ring Octopus in November – the classic Blue Ring month. And of course…