How well do you know your gobies from the Lembeh Strait? Here’s a quick quiz of just some of teh gobies you can look for during your stay in Lembeh. Of course, we all have a favourite goby, and tastes may be different but there is one thing for sure, they are way cooler than nudibranchs!
It’s time to introduce myself properly, so far most of you only know me as “the new Serge”. My name is Sonja, I’m from Germany and decided to move to South East Asia in 2010 to become a dive instructor. Back then, you would always find me diving with a simple point and shoot camera – therefore, it wasn’t very surprising that I finally completed my underwater videography course in 2012.
Critter Hunt is situated in the middle of the Lembeh Strait on the southern side of the Sarena Island Group. A sandy slope goes down from a reeftop shallow at around 1-2 meters to about 20 meters from where it then slowly flattens out into a spongy rubble patch. The right and Read more…
The Hairy Squat Lobster (Lauriea siagiani) lives in the crevices of the large barrel sponges here in the Lembeh Strait. They typically hide pretty well making it tricky to photograph them, and extremely hard to video them. I found this guy on a night-dive and he was sat out and Read more…
Over the last three days we were lucky enough to have a pod of porpoises staying just off our housereef. They spent most of the day doing these strange manouvers, raising and lowering their tails out of the water. We were even lucky enough to see them whilst freediving from Read more…