These days we have been back to Pulau Abadi – a divesite in front of Bitung harbour, that has a nice rubble patch and also a beautiful coral reef. Our guest saw lots of cool things there including frogfish, flamboyant cuttlefish, ribbon eels and a wonderpus (that disappeared in its hole Read more…
All our dives on our 3 dive boats were really good today … but the second morning dive on Stargazer was a rather special one. We not only found many critters, we also found them in a very small area. Among several other critters, we saw a Painted Frogfish, a Read more…
Hairy Frogfish, Rhinopias, Hairy Octopus, Blue Ringed Octopus – most Muck Divers coming to Lembeh have a “Holy Grail” on their Bucket List. Mine has always been the Zebra Seahorse. Our Dive Guide Paulus says that he has seen the last one something like 10 years back in Hairball – Read more…
Our NAD-Lembeh BLOG is now running for about 4 months and reaches 100 posts with this post. We are very happy, that all you guys keep following our BLOG Posts – thank you very much. It is a fanstastic winter season here in Lembeh with many cool critters and good Read more…
The Pygmy Seahorses are without doubt among the most attractive critters – they are cryptic, hard to find but yet beautiful. And for a lot of divers the Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse (Hippocampus pontohi or Weedy Pygmy Seahorse) is even more special than other Pygmy Seahorses. The Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse was Read more…
This Picture of our Repeater Guest Mood shows a beautiful Pygmy seahorse found by our dive guide Paulus. Paulus has found already several of them over the last 10 years – but not many. And this is one of them. It is most probably a variation of the Denise Pygmy Read more…
To follow a guest request we went to see a sea fan with Denise Pygmy Seahorses on yesterday’s morning dives. This particular fan had 3 individuals living in it. As the seafan is easiely accessable from both sides, they are very cool to watch. Two of them had big blown up Read more…
On todays second morning dive we went to Teluk Kembahu 1 (TK1) – a very popular dive site in Lembeh Strait. But one that hasn’t been dived much recently. A good reason for us to give it a try … because we not only like to discover new critters, we Read more…
The Bargibanti Pygmy Seahorse (hippocampus bargibanti) is the most common Pygmy Seahorse and found all over the Indo-Pacific region. It was the first Pygmy Seahorse that has been discovered (1969) and still counts as the classic Pygmy Seahorse. It grows to maximum 2 cm, lives only in Muricella Seafans and Read more…
I just downloaded the pictures from todays morning dives and am amazed by the beauty of this little Pontohi Pygmy Seahorse that i found at XXX (of course we don’t tell the divsite ;)) It not only has a very cool white-yellow colouration with lots of red on the head Read more…