One of Lembeh’s hardest to find Critters – the Hairy Octopus. I don’t know how we’ve managed this over the last few weeks, but we have seen so many of these guys that even we all managed to go see them. I went and shot some 5k video, Serge and Zee went to shoot still…
We’ve been a little quiet for a few days and here’s why: This is the 7th wreck we have sunk on our housereef as well as concrete structures and some metal frames. Most is colonising well and we have some quite good sized corals growing on them. The reason for putting this latest wreck so…
We have a new diveboat! Mototi joins out fleet of ‘new’ Octopus Boats, Mimic and Wonderpus. This gives us without question, the nicest and newest boats in the region… and we are pretty excited about that. Mototi is our largest diveboat with some pretty cool features that we added after we received her. She had…
We’re used to seeing NAD from below but here’s a video from above… 😉 First Try at Aerial Video from Simon Buxton on Vimeo.
June is always a busy month for Birthdays here in the resort. many staff and also Simon and Zee celebrate this month. These traditions are not compulsory for our guests, but they can be arranged at a partner’s behest… So watch out! Diving wise everything is around, we are also finding quite a lot of…
I’ve been digging through my footage from just before I went on my mini holiday to South Australia for White Sharks, and I came across this nice sequence. This was one of my favourite dives of the year so far, it was a real pleasure to be in the water with so much movement. If…
As some of you may know, last June Bella was stung by a large Box Jellyfish whilst swimming. I always thought Box Jellyfish were an Australian problem, but it seems they are thought to range as far North as Thailand. They enjoy shallow, brackish water and are fast swimmers – it is very unusual to…
If you book (or have already booked) a Double Occupancy room for June or July 2014 then we are happy to announce that we will be giving a guide ratio of 2:1. This Private Diving experience for couples (and two twins!) on our sleek boats will hopefully be a success – So if you haven’t…
Today I did my first dives with a new camera system. The Sony A7r is a 36MP full frame mirrorless camera, and with the Nauticam housing and an adapter ring you can use the Nikonos series of lenses. I started with a very old and well used 15mm lens that I would guess hasn’t been…
Well, It’s nearly the year end and we found another cool thing… Probably the last cool thing for the year but who knows! Last year if you’d asked me to wish for something diving wise, I would have asked for a Rhinopias to be found in Lembeh again. In the last month we have seen…