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Nov 15, 2009 |
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November has brought back the Mantas, large groups being seen at many of our favourite dive sites, in October every year a lot of the Mantas disappear for at least a week, to where we don't know and then they reappear all of a sudden to join the ones that stayed;o) John had a Manta zoom up from 20mts to the surface to breach and then splash back in, the staff on the boat also saw this amazing site;o) Emma is on a Frog fish fest finding 2 in 2 days, one tiny 4cm black and blue one at Batu Bolong then yesterday a beautiful small yellow one at Coral Garden. Dolphin moment also for Emma and her group at Crystal rock when a pod of 8 swam past in the shallows. We're getting a tiny bit of rain late afternoons so things starting to turn green again. More strange critters found on the muck dives, whiskered pipefish;o)
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Oct 31, 2009 |
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Whale sightings this month, what a buzz, Henkie the captain was the first to spot them as usual, later found out they are Pygmy Brydes Whales (and Attenborough pronounces it Broodess;o) but there was nothing pygmy about them that I could see;o)) at least 11 mts long, we followed them for quite a while as they kept breaching and leaving their footprints (Johns little nugget of information;o) New Muck dive for us, it's brilliant, nothing coral wise but frog fish, picture dragonets, zebra crabs, ribbon eels, weird nudibrachs, stone fish, ghost pipe fish, we love it;o)) Start of the month lots of Mantas but they're off again! still a few being sighted though if you know where to look;o)) Pods of spinner dolphins doing there thing (spinning out of the water;o)
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Sep 30, 2009 |
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Emanuele, Andrea, Lin, Maude and not forgetting Emil and Richie, I will never forget our day at Full Moon and the Channel, after the show of how many Sharks at Full moon and the schooling fish and Giant Trevallys, we then had the experience of a lifetime with a turtle who took a real liking to Andrea and Emanuele (must be the Italian blood) and proceeded to have little dances with us all, not sure if he'd lost his way or his mind, but it was so amazing to see and something that will stay with me forever, what a treat;o) Our wee pal Yumi was back for her yearly visit and we had wonderful dives together, she always brings such good luck, 28 Bumpheads on one dive and never seen before nudibranchs;o))
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Aug 19, 2009 |
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We are happy to welcome guests to Angel Island Resort
Private island with 10 villas, A/C, hot water, mini bar,
tea/coffee making facilities, mini safe, beach restaurant,
snorkeling off our 3 white beaches, shore diving also
available or just relaxing in the peace and tranquility of the island.
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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White Sand Beaches
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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Garden bathroom
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Aug 18, 2009 |
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Shade from the lovely sunshine;o)
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Jun 14, 2009 |
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June already! Visibility is infinite, water is 28c and the marine life is thriving, lots of nice encounters, Manta Rays always ready to put on an exhibition to the delight of our guests, some nice dolphin moments, one time in the blue doing our safety stop and in came 5 bottlenose dolphins to have a look at us, just amazing;o) Strange nudibranchs being found yesterday one at Batu bolong around 12cms very weird and as yet unidentified;o( Hilarious dive at white sands with a wee flounder chasing a box crab over the sand, no matter where the crab tried to bury himself the flounder was right behind moving him on, not sure what was going on, but it was very entertaining;o)))
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Apr 20, 2009 |
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April 2009 - Great day down South at Cannibal Rock and Nurdins spirit, cold water but sooo many strange critters, 5 frog fish of different varieties, one a beautiful Pink painted;o) Nudibranchs all over, one being a huge hand sized solar slug! with demon stingers, cow fish, pipe fish and leaf fish it was really an amazing day;o)) We've had some pretty strong currents in the park with this full moon but bringing in so many fish, good viz and warmer water, the mantas dissapeared for a week but are now back with some cooler water coming back into the park and are hanging at their favourite feeding and cleaning stations. Plenty of octopus being found, a strange wee pointed head one found at the airstrip by Iain when it stopped moving it was so hard to see again, but what a find, well done Iain;o)) check out more of Iains photos @
www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=108054&id=620659487&I=888aedb927
There's also a video clip on www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnbRIZckMjA
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Feb 15, 2009 |
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Feb 2009 This February brought in mixed weather some bad days and some wonderful days for diving, due to big waves we dived some closer sites and found a host of wonderful smaller critters from ghost pipe fish, needle shrimps, viper morays, strange nudis (Asteronotus cespitosus) not a very nice name for such a crazy nudibranch! mushroom coral pipefish, solor slug, snake eels, but also some unexpected larger marine life in the shape of bumphead parrot fish, schools of thicklipped trevally, turtles, silverbat fish, crocodile fish, barracuda and cuttlefish to name a few;o)) But we also got into the park most of the time and had wonderful visits with the Manta rays, sharks, napoleons, quite a lot of bamboo sharks around, nice dives down South at Cannibal, bringing in the usual suspects of frog fish etc., photo of clown snake eel, compliments of Peter Herzel, together with a group of friends they dived a total of 17days with us;o))
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Jan 14, 2009 |
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A Happy New Year 2009 to you all;o)
We've certainly had a great start here in Komodo, New Years day saw us diving with lots and lots of mantas, sitting on the bottom we had them in front, beside and behind us getting cleaned, many times they swooped in and we had to duck to miss getting flapped with their wings;o)) then as we drifted along on the safety stop we had a huge black blotched ray and a porcupine ray, 'Ray Days' with Reefseekers;o)))) Visibility has been poor on some sites but still plenty to see, water a chilly 26c. The 12th brought maybe one of my best dives ever and also for Michelle from Singapore and Robert from Sweden, in we dropped and had a line of 10 white tip reef sharks chasing maybe a female at the front;o) then in came 4 grey sharks, fusiliers, snappers, surgeons all around us, thinking wow this is a very nice dive, we turned to see the silver streak of a dolphin chasing down a fish, around the coral head is swam oblivious of us, then was joined by lots of white tips and the Grey sharks came in, giant and blue fin trevalies were all there after this one fish, the poor thing made a run for it and was instantly caught by the dolphin which took off at a rate of knots followed by the not very happy Grey sharks with not a hope of catching it, we looked back and there were the dozy white tips and GT's still circling the coral head, then if that was not enough excitement for us, down came 6 dolphins, with one definitely taking notice of us and coming up short in front of us to stand there for a while and do a double take at us, just wonderful;o))) Oh to have a rebreather at times like that, we would have stayed down forever;o))))) Certainly a dive I will not forget in a hurry! Lots of flatworms and nudibranchs about with a couple of new ones for us. One site is full of tiny baby fusiliers, it's like a fireworks display when the GT's and blue fins go in for a snack.
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Dec 23, 2008 |
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Reefseekers wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year 2009
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Nov 30, 2008 |
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They'rrreee back;o)) Lots of Mantas around now, viz not too good with the rains starting, but who cares when the black and white beauties are around, some chilly dives too with 24c at Batu bolong one morning;o( Speaking of BB 6 devil rays swooped in and somersaulted out into the current, quite a few sightings of Eagle rays, as well as 3 huge porcupine rays at Coral Garden, one dive in the north had over 15-20 white tip sharks swimming around in the current with 4 Greys;o) Lots of nice small critters too;o)) Photo of wall to wall fish by Trent Burkholder
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Oct 30, 2008 |
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Huge, huge, dog tooth tunas looming in out of the blue, they really never look happy and their teeth look very sharp, yikes;o) Another Dugong spotted, what a thrill for everyone on the dive;o) Not many Mantas around this month, not sure where they've wandered off to, but they started making the odd appearance by the end of the month, phew;o) But how about 17 dolphins on one dive, squeaking and chirping and rubbing themselves in the sand, wow what an experience;o) Finding quite a few octopus and 4 beautiful tiny yellow and black striped cowries. 4 Black tips on one dive, coming in quite close instead of the usual skittish head for the hills;o)found 2 tiny black ribbon eels, so slim we nearly missed them and a zebra moray swimming from one coral head to another. Tons of fusiliers around with the shepherding trevalies in tow. Photo by Trent Burkholder
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Sep 28, 2008 |
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Yumi's log book;o)
sept 9th dove coral garden we sat on the sandy bottom watching the garden eels and then there were about 5 white tip reef sharks swimming around above us, we also had 2 mantas swim join us on our dive. we also saw crocodile fish, blue spotted sting ray, groupers, lion fish, snappers, sweet lips, triggers, fusiliers... very nice first dive even had a manta sighting during our safety stop.
second dive, before we even jumped into the water, we saw dolphins, dove with Tono, and was able to see 3 different color pigmy seahorses. it is amazing how easy he makes it look to find those little guys. some of them were really fat, maybe their pregnant?
sept 10 batubolong dove the slope side I got to see turtles and napoleons! 2nd dive was at tatawa kecil saw a poly clad flat worm ( i think) black with a bright pinky orange ring around it, so beautiful. came across a group of batfish, snappers, fusiliers and there was a turtle trying to find a snack.
night dive, right where we were putting on our fins in the water Tono puts his face down and finds a ghost pipe fish. it looked like a long leaf or reed it was so cool literally under our noses. during our dive we saw bumped head parrot fish, octopus hiding in the coral and then we saw a beautiful juvenile bat fish still had the orange ring around him so pretty.
sept 11 full moon dropped into the blue and ended hanging out in the middle of the blue, we were surrounded by fusiliers, giant travally, white tips, greys and a eagle ray even came by to say hello. in the shallows we saw a cute little reindeer wrasse and just before coming up we saw 3 dolphins one was a baby swimming by!!
sept 12 on the way to snapper point you(kath) thought you saw a turtle, but it was a dugong, it was so cool to see its tail come out of the water, what a treat! on the dive we saw milk fish, humpback snappers, a turtle trying to find something to eat he was craving something and was just fumbling along the bottom taking a bite here and there. and then i get to see a huge sausage in the water and its turtle poop, thanks for sharing kath! 2nd dive at batubolong, dave found 3 cowries, they were so big and beautiful as we were leaving the dive site we saw dolphins
sept 13 full moon, into the blue again, Fusiliers, travallies, dog tooth tunas,snappers, white tips, napolean and greys, oh my! we were right in the middle of the hunt. you could see the travallies change to black and the hunger in their eyes. and then the napolean coming in to see what all the fuss is all about, trying to be one of the guys. this time the white tips looked small compared to the travallies. 2nd dive chanel, mantas, and turtles found a little place to sit and watch the mantas. ( got some great pics)
sept14 White sands, the huge alien, i believed he now has a name Oscar the grouch. it was so cute to see him try to scare us away, by popping out of his hole. hanging gardens, mandarin fish, finally! so cool to finally see the mandarin fish and so many of them too!!
sept 15 light house, huge groupers, they're a couple of big boys down there and they trying to find their mate. ( aren't we all, hahaha) they make the white tips look like puppies. saw a yellow pigmy seahorse, so cute! gar fish were above us, we were surrounded by fusiliers again and the travallies and white tips were around too. it was like the sea changed colors when the fusiliers change direction its amazing to see the synchronization.
sept 16 batubolong, no side, my favorite side, except for the water temp was so cold about 24 degrees. there was a white tip just rest on the bottom between 2 rocks while we swam over him and right next to him was a turtle eating. a hawksbill swam right over our heads and was surfacing. and then a manta went by us in the blue. we saw a juvenile yellow tail coris changing into adult, it was half and half, the front was still bright orange and the back was the adult markings. 2nd dive tatawa kecil west side, favorite side. the water was pretty cold here too. tom jones made an appearance, as well as some batfish, black snappers, morays, meyers butterfly fish, and a yellow and blue travallies
sept 17 full moon, into the blue, but this time we had to work, thought i was going to run out of air before i got to wherever we were going, but totally worth it! once we got "there" we just had to hang on and watch, we were in the mix of things, there were white tips, greys, tuna, shark mackeral, giant travallies, and even dolphins. this was a busy dive because we had activity infront of us and behind. the travallies and sharks ( couple of the greys were not only big, but still coming in our direction, kind of creepy) infront and dolphins behind us, so the fusiliers were being chased from all directions, it was amazing to be able to experience something like that. during our surface interval we could see about 3 mantas feeding from the boat. at stingray alley. they hung around long enough for us to jump in the water and see them. this dive we dove 4 areas, cauldron, chanel and coral gardens. it was a little bit of everything. bumped head parrot fish had his family out and about, moray eels, garden eels, velvet mollusk ( forgot the name) then we saw a group of batfish, hawksbill turtle, whitetip and thru the channel we went as our dive came to an end we were greeted by another manta and a group of about 10 or so barracudas!
sept 18 airstrip, so amazing to see so many mantas and they were so big. like seeing a huge big rug. we got so close you could see the curiosity in their eyes. one of the mantas we saw looked a pregnant. one had a crook in its tail, another had a very short tail. (starting to be able to tell them apart, maybe you should start documenting them) any ways they were huge and beautiful to see! next dive orange garden, from the surface you could see the reflections from the fusiliers, flashes of blue, there were so many of them. there was a shark mackeral and travallies swimming around and a blk tip too. an eagle ray made an appearance and a banded pipe fish.
sept 19 last day of diving,boo hoo... went to crystal rock and dove into the blue!! this time there even more fusiliers than the last few times it was amazing. at certain times, i couldn't see kath because there were so many fish, talk about being lost in a crowd. there were so many fusiliers, the way they swam in synch was watching the color of the water change from bright blue to grey and dark. the hunt was on today i was just hoping not to get in the way it was like seeing bullets flying at you when the travallies, white tips, shark mackerel made there move it was just amazing to witness the fusiliers move.
last dive, was at cauldron, my ears weren't doing so great, but still had a great dive, got to say good bye to the napoleons, batfish, bumped head parrot fish, snappers, white tips, and and the other little guys. and on our way into labuan bajo the dolphins came by to say good bye.
thanks for the memories!!
love, yumi
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