A great start to June with dolphins and grey sharks seen at full moon
Lots of beautiful Mandarin fish, also ghost pipe fish and a school of devil rays. Eagle rays popping up all over and of course still lots of sightings of the fabulous mantas, visibility excellent, water 27-29c quite a bit of wind and some waves, but not enough to stop us diving;o)) 2 sightings of a leopard shark, very nice;o)) And with new additions to the Reefseekers family, 5 Ducklings!! how cute are they?

Warm, turquoise waters and plenty of marine life makes for very happy divers;o) with the biggest group of blue fin trevallys we've ever seen, you usually see between 6-10 in a mafia style group heckling the other fish, but one dive had over 100 of them swarming around us, maybe they were tired of being chased off by the Giant trevallys and had come out in force! Lots of Manta moments and a huge yellow frog fish spotted at 3 sisters, with a big swell and cold water it was certainly a challenging dive;o) We dropped in to check out a new site and had a Manta, turtle, white tip sharks, bamboo shark an octopus, reindeer wrasse and loads of nudibranchs and beautiful coral, not bad at all. Nobody can fail to be impressed with the Mandarin fish and we've spotted quite a few this month. First time I've seen a pregnant manta, or maybe the first time I've realised;o) Now for all of you who think there is nothing to see in British waters check out this web site, our friend Jackie tags basking sharks in her spare time!! www.manxbaskingsharkwatch.com/index.aspx

The visibility has gone from 10mts to beautiful blue clear water, lots of Mantas now at the airstrip and we had an underwater sighting of 3 dolphins at Crystal rock, so many nudibranchs, some we've never seen before, hopefully our guests will send on their photos to me, pretty please;o)) Strong currents on a dive at Batu Bolong had 2 huge mantas showing off how easy it is to play in these currents, not for us though as we tucked in as close to the reef as possible to watch the show;o) Cannibal Rock and Nurdins spirit doing us proud with her host of strange and wonderful critters;o) Water temp coming back up also with 28/29 in the Northern sites. We had a huge Giant Trevally circling us for about 10 mins at Chinese pagoda at the end of a dive, not sure what his intentions were, join us, or get rid of the pesky remora which seemed to be irritating the life out of him;o)

Happy Valentines day to you all;o)
For February we've had a distinct lack of rain, visibility staying around 15mts, Waters cooler 26c at Gili Lawa laut yesterday, but lots of fish, sharks a' plenty, banded sea krait and a lovely Eagle ray, Manta Rays at quite a few sites also;o) Check out some divers comments at
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Happy New Year to you all, we wish you Health and Happiness and most of all Great diving where ever you dive in 2007.
January has started with a few days of much needed rain, all of the islands have been transformed back to green, a far cry from the dry arid look we've had for the last few months. We've had Great night dives finding a huge spearer mantis shrimp black and white stripes (Lysiosquillina maculata) Ernest and his group spotted the elusive flamboyant cuttlefish, huge flatworm, again black and white, think they were all Newcastle United supporters;o)) stone fish, crocodile snake eels, 4 flatheads buried in the sand, sleeping banded pipe fish, squat lobsters, juv. pinate batfish, really very nice dives;o) Manta Rays are out in force, water a bit chilly but bringing in lots of fish, visibility staying around 15mts.

Reefseekers wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2007.
First couple of weeks of December over and we're still waiting for rain Pair of Coleman shrimps found at a new site 'Mini Wall' they had carefully snipped off the poisonous spines of a fire urchin and made a bare patch to live on, nice dive for critter spotting, a huge solor nudibranch + many others, pipe fish, octopus, shrimps, crabs. A massive black blotched ray was leading the dive in the channel, biggest nurse shark I've ever seen + 6 mandarin fish at the end of one dive, Mantas at the Airstrip again Ghost pipe fish at Critter heaven, 6 huge African pompanos at Full moon, water temperature is 29-30c. Chillier water at Cannibal 25c but hosts of nudibranchs with a mating pair of Miamira magnifica and the biggest giant moray I've ever seen, lots of baby white tip sharks hiding in holes, one wee cave had 6 all piled on top of each other.

Water has been chilly these last few weeks, with some very cool upwellings, still having some nice Manta moments at a few of our northern dive sites, teeny beige frog fish found as I turned back over an overturned table coral at Lighthouse, very cute;o) 3 huge crocodile fish all lined up to have their photos taken at Full moon. Big black blotched rays at Siaba and Crystal rock. Scaring the boat crew, a huge whale was seen heading out North from Sebayur island, breaching and blowing out massive plumes of spray to our enthralled guests;o) Nurdin and guests getting an underwater visit by dolphins at one of our northern sites;o) check out some photos from Komodo taken by Igo Verlinde http://www.localize.nl/fotoalbum/albumindex.htm

With the Manta Rays staying around at a few of our favourite sites, it's been a great August, excellent visibility, water temp 27c a little cool for my liking and we've had many of our Frequent flyer divers;o))) returning to dive with us over the last months, Thanks guys it's been great fun to see you all again;o)) Bottlenose dolphin dropping in to say hello after we'd seen huge Grey sharks, white tip sharks, schools of fusiliers, Giant trevallys, blue fin trevallys, Tunas, shark Mackerel and Napoleon Wrasse, you could say we had very happy divers;o) Many sightings of Eagle rays this month, sighting of a Lacy scorpionfish, not by me unfortunately

Octopus are out and about on the reefs this month, many sightings of these wonderful creatures. We had a zebra moray out swimming around which is nice to see, normally they are very shy during the day. Chevron and yellowtail barracudas making easy work of hanging in the current, black tip sharks scooting around the reefs always on the go, not like their pals the white tips who give you a look of indignation if you go too close and they have to move, Bamboo, nurse and cat sharks around.