Diving Photos - Manado+Lembeh Straits Indonesia
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Hi..... more pics from my dive trips. This time the photos are from Manado & Lembeh Straits, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia...... now thats a mouth full
The time of this trip is around mid june this year....... after govt give 'election' funding to voters.... so, for the next few days, enjoy the photos. Pls leaves a comment or two also.
1st groups of photos are from a dive site called Black Rocks.... about 5-10mins boat ride from my dive resort NDC. No really a good site. To sandy for my taste.....
i think this is a Ang Mor...... because the former owner of NDC is Ang Mor. This 'thing' is in the main drive way outside the old Admin buliding......
Squat Shrimps hiding on the inside of a soft coral.
Some type of bubble soft coral...... not sure what its name
A well camouflage Flounder... the red line outline the fish.
Hell if i know what this is not really a coral or plant..... but it is an animal... i think 
A group of Razorfish..... they swim with their heads towards the seafloor.
Jawfish with its head outside it holes...... move closer and it will disappear into the sand.
2 Ribbon Eel...... a little info, Males are Blue, Females are Yellow, while juvenile are Black.....
One more Spotfin Lionfish.
Ficking Beautiful Sunset after the dive. Photos taken from the Jetty of NDC.
More photos to come
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feels like going into another world where silence is the order of the day
beauitful pics -
Scuba diving is quite nosiy..... all those air leaving your Reg......
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I meant the evergoing talking, nagging and squabblingOriginally posted by hloc:Scuba diving is quite nosiy..... all those air leaving your Reg...... -
dude, wats ur camera configuration? manado is micronesia am i rite?
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Canon Powershot A610 with Canon U/W casing...Originally posted by Maurince:dude, wats ur camera configuration? manado is micronesia am i rite?
Manado is famous for 'Wall dive'
Lembeh Straits is famous for 'Muck Dive'
Is it Micronesia Not sure myself. Near the Philippines. It is at the northen tip of Sulawesi..... see on Google Earth lor. -
More update..... these photos are from a dive site called - Depan Kampung. Mainly wall dive around this area. Very deep waters..... more than 60m deep .
Close-up of Feather Star.
Big colour Spiny Lobster
Do you see what I see.... 
Close-up shot of a Pink Squat Lobster on a soft coral..... so well camouflage that it took my divemaster quite a few time of pointing before we saw it......
Big Green Turtle..... this one is HUGH About 2m in length.... the biggest sea turtle I've seen yet. The turtle most often seen around Malaysia (Tioman, Aur) are Hawksbill Turtle...... quite common. This is the 1st Green I saw. 
Not the same Green Turtle...... I was sweep out to mid water by strong current, away from the sea wall & my dive group when I came upon this lonely Green...... photo taken at a depth of 17.2m...... 360* all blue water..... no land, sea bed in sight. Quite scary......
Cute little fish known as Black-Saddled Toby.
Randall's Shrimpgoby......
Close-up shot of sea anemone...... the RED thing is some type of Shrimps.... but I don't have a good enough look to tell what type the are.
More Bubble soft coral.
Soft coral known as Whip Coral
Ok..... this is a weird one . Till today I still don't know what this shiny ball like thing IS . Confirm not Dragon Ball lah Slightly soft and rubber like. Did not have the heart to squeezn it..... BAD for my already bad Krama. 
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Hi.... this photos are from dive site - Fukui Point, around the Bunaken National Park in Manado.
This 2 photos are close-up of Gaint Sea Calm....... 5 of this Clam sits together under 20+m of water. Each has a lenght of at least 1.5m long. Never have i seen so many HUGH Clams together.
My divemaster feeding bananas to the fishes......
One more of those 'Dragon Balls' thing.......
A type of hard coral from the Fungiidae family.......
Beautiful soft coral....... a nice green colour... in some ways, looks like grass.
Another Toby amongs the corals.....
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Photos......
This photos are from dive site - Loky Point.... a Shipwreck. Some type od WW2 German cargo ship........ nice and big. Saw quite a few of my fave underwater photo sudjects.....
A big black green Nudibranch (Sea Slug) - Crested Nembrotha. Bigger than the usually kind around Malaysia...... colourful also.
Another Nudibranch (Sea Slug) - Ocellate Phyllidia...... whatever that means
One more...... cute and small - Much-desired Flabelline.....
Whip Goby of some type....... small fish hiding on the thin Whip Coral itself. Sorry about the photo no looking sharp. The Goby is very very shy, and will flee when cornered.......
Threadfin Hawkfish..... resting on the coral encrusted hull of the wreck.
Pink Anemonefish......
Pink Leaf Scorpionfish...... damn hard to find..... i have a good divemaster. !st time i saw one, they don't move much. Therefore quite easy to take photos. Later even have a photo of a white colour one...
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Hi.... more pics. From Dive Site - East (Timur). This dive site is east of the village.... hence the name East or 'Timur' to the local.
A well camouflage Scorpionfish
Eggs from some type of Nudibranch (Sea Slug) forming a beautiful flower like patten.
A Boxer Shrimp
Some type of shrimp on soft coral.
Nice big soft coral.
Small blue fishes using the Table Coral as a place to hid and hunt for food. Move closer, and they all disappear under the coral.
A Nudibranch known as - Ann's Chromodoris
Bright Sunny afternoon back on the dive boat....... facing Manado City in fornt. -
nice pic again
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muck diving !!! ..... woooow !!! ....
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great shots
was it difficult to get to Manado ?
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Not really..... SilkAir fly direct to Manado Airport. But the ticket is ficking EXPENSIVEOriginally posted by borgkilla:great shots
was it difficult to get to Manado ?
I am sure you had to transit a number of places .... no buget yet. Then the Dive centre will send someone to pick us up. -
Pics of Muck Diving at Lembeh Straits come soon.....Originally posted by Fatum:muck diving !!! ..... woooow !!! .... .... -
Hi... more pics
From dive site - Tanjung Pisok.
A Spotted Shrimpgoby.....
Nice close-up of a soft coral
All 4 photo shows a type of crab known locally as - Orangutan Crab. Most likely because of its red-hairy cover. Can't find any information from my books. The first 3 photos are from the same crab while the last is from another. (See the difference coral/anemone the crab is resting on). The last photo also give you the size of the crab because the metal rod on the left is only as thick as a normal pencil use in schools.
A Trumpetfish lookin for makan amongs the Fan Coral....
Cute little Anemonefish amongs green coloured Sea Anemone.
View from NDC's (Resort) pool side. The City of Manado is below those mountains. So nice to be inside a pool after diving...... until caught a chill and have fever for the next few days..... sick sick sick....
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Hi..... photos. Dive Site - Nudi Falls, Lembeh Straits.
Lembeh Straits is famous amongs divers for it super 'Muck Diving'. Muck diving is about looking for strange and bizarre creature.... mostly in waters of limilted visibility (7-12m is very good already). Most of the animals are really small and hard to find...... therefore a good divemaster is a must...... enjoy the following photos.....
The red circle is where Manado is..... the light blue one is where Lembeh straits is....... between the mainland and Lembeh island
Freckled Goatfish.....
Zebra Lionfish.... one of the more beautiful Lionfish.....
Dusky Nembrotha..... a type of nudibranch (Sea Slug)
Close-up shot of a Dusky Nembrotha
A nudibranch known as - Crested Nembrotha
This nudibranch is known as - Morose Tambja
Do you see anything there at all Try harder
See it now Its a Pygmy Seahorse... the light pink thing. It is a full grown adult seahorse, no bigger than 2cm in length The metal rod is no thicker than a pencil...... it is use to give you something to compair size with......
Pygmy Seahorse as much as my PhotoShop can crop........ danm tiny 
Small Spider Crab...
Map Puffer.....
A pair of Banggai Cardinalfish
A juvenile Ribbon Eel.....
Juvenile Spotfin Lionfish..... small one. Hiding inside some hard coral
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Hey Hloc, haf u joined SGSCUBA forum? Tink the forumites
will praise the pics u taken.. A beri good collection of corals & fishes..
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Thxs for the info...... just sign up using the same usernameOriginally posted by Maurince:Hey Hloc, haf u joined SGSCUBA forum? Tink the forumites
will praise the pics u taken.. A beri good collection of corals & fishes..
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Ok..... more pics.
From dive site - Jahir, Lembeh Straits. This place is one of the best in Lembeh... saw even more intesting stuff. But no hairly or clown frogfish ..... still, one of the best places i've been. Enjoy 
Shortfin Lionfish..... small one.
Zebra Lionfish.... sorry for the 'ASS' shot. But look at that beautiful fin 
Unknown type of Flounder.... maybe Peaco-ck or Angler.... i don't know. the fish not wearing Name Tag
Peaco-ck Mantis Shrimp (smashing type)..... small bugger can really run.... damn hard to photo it......
Painted Frogfish..... orange coloured type.
Gaint Frogfish...... big as a football. The 2nd photo is a close-up of its mouth.
A white coloured Leaf Scorpionfish.
More Shortfin Lionfish.....
Strapweed Filefish....
2 kind of Spiny Devilfish....... I nearly kena sting by one of them.... my friend Andy swim towards me and blocked my way before i got sting. Saw 2 eyes on the surface of the sand. When the fish poke out, can see them 'walking' on the sand with 'legs' like fin...... see the red coloured one. 2 little fin like thing on the sand.
A fish known as Helmut Gurnard.... as strange as it could be. Walking around the sand with its 'wings'...... 
A beautiful Harlequin Ghost Pipefish
Again this animal/plant thing....
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Hi.... photos. Need to clear out all my Manado photos inorder to start another post at SG Scuba Forum...... These photos are from dive site - Police Pier, Lembeh Straits...... as the name suggest, there is a Police Coast Guard base at the dive site..... and we really dive under the pier.
The beautiful green forest around the dive site..... very kampong like. Afer a short shower of rain....... thats why so much mist amongs the trees
Sea Anemone close up after a slight touch...... it was not harm in anyway.
2 good shot of Painted Frogfish..... from the 1st photo, see how much the frogfish looks like the soft coral in the background 
A fish known as Crocodile Flathead.... again no prize for guessing why called Flathead
'Ass' shot photo of a Zebra Lionfish
I think this is a Guineafowl Puffer
A Snowflake Moray inside a PBC plastic tube...... Junk all around the dive site.
The green version of the animal/plant thingy......
Some type of Sea Urchin
3 difference type of Nudibranch...... my avatar using 1 of them.
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I feel that they're all beautifully taken pics!
And such wonderful fun for being able to dive and see another world unseen by many.. I envy you man..
One n00b question, is it very expensive to take up diving as a hobby? -
Depends on what u means by 'Very Expensive'.......Originally posted by RvnRooRon84:I feel that they're all beautifully taken pics!
And such wonderful fun for being able to dive and see another world unseen by many.. I envy you man..
One n00b question, is it very expensive to take up diving as a hobby? 
Dive course - PADI - Open Water - $450 - $550, Adv Open Water (most of us only until this level) - $350 - $450.
Malaysia dive trip (Tioman, Aur) - $300 - $400
Oversea - $1200 onwards.
I try to make my trips (dive, air-ticket, hotels, food, R&R, shopping) total to below $2000......
Dive gears are expensive....... but need not get a full set from the beginning. Just mask and fins...... wetsuit if your size is big (fat like me). later then BCD and dive computer and stuff....... but can slowly buy lah. -
More photos...... Dive Site - East (Timur) again.....
A beautiful morning to go diving........ looking at Bunaken National Park. Photo taken from the jetty at NDC.
More shots.....
I'm not sure if this is a nudibranch...... not moving when i took the pics. But doesn't look like a coral also.....
Soft coral.....
Nice close-up of soft coral...... look like grass.
Underwater viewing.........
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Originally posted by hloc:Unknown type of Flounder.... maybe Peaco-ck or Angler.... i don't know. the fish not wearing Name Tag
very cool!
it's so cool to see such big turtles underwater!
*envy*