It’s a little bit like when you see the first Christmas decoration in early December: You know it’s the start of a veryspecial season. And its the same in summer in Lembeh. In late July early August the water Temperature drops and you start freezing (hey … it’s actually really like Read more
After leaving in mid-May to spend some time quality time with the big pelagics in Mexico, Costa Rica, and the U.S., I’m back to stay for a while at NAD. After embarking on my open-ended trip to Indonesia last August, I spent eight of the past twelve months split between Read more
On yesterday’s second morning dive our guide Stenly found (amongst other things) this little baby Octopus for his three Japanese guests. The little fellow had the size of a fingernail or a small coin and was still transparent … you could even see his internal organs working. Its colouration was Read more
Most fishes look cuter when they are juvenile – and this goes specially for frogfishes. So of course we were quite happy, when we found 2 tiny baby painted frogfishes on a dive this week. When they just hatched, they can be found as tiny little blobs in the sand. Read more
When i took our Guest Mood diving this week we were actually trying to find the Hairy Octopus again … but as often: You don’t always get what you ask for. Anyway: we still had a good dive with various Highlights such as several painted frogfishes, cool nudibranchs and other Read more
It’s “Baby Time” in Lembeh … or at least this it how seemes. This morning we bumped into a lot of juvenile critters on both dives. We saw juvenile frogfish (that fit on your thumbnail), various tiny juvenile nudibranchs (that would fit under your thumbnail;) ), several baby cuttlefish (also Read more
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 Read more