New Fish Diver

New Staff!!! We had a new addition to our staff when Tina gave birth to our daughter. Rebecca Olwyn Emily Thomas (middle names from both her grand-mothers), was born at 5.30am on 12 April, she weighed 3kg and was 50cm, and both mother and daughter are doing fine. The father is also ok, …

Fantastic dancer on the reefs

A few nights ago we went on a night dive and found this Spanish Dancer, a nudibranch that is about 1 foot long and has a very large frill that makes it seem as though its “dancing” when it moves. A very beautiful creature that is not seen often, Neil (yes he is still here!) took this photo as I was guiding a student on their Night Dive as part of their Advanced Course.

Nigel @ Two Fish (17/04/07)

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Youngest diver over Easter

We had a great time over Easter - the weather was blue skies and sun and the viz was 20-25m so the diving was perfect. We were full during the week before Easter and had a great crowd of guests, and we taught our youngest ever diver - Baptiste (picture top right) is only 10 years old and he passed his open water course with flying colours. He was visiting us with his older brother Zach and father Byrne (picture bottom right), they were here 2 years ago when we taught Zach to dive, and Baptiste has had to wait until turning 10 before he could follow in his brothers footsteps (or fin kicks!). Congratulations Baptiste, happy diving, and we hope to see you again.

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Another new nudi

Hot on the heels of the nudibrach spotted last week for the first time, this nudibranch is another guy that was spotted in Bunaken for the first time. Still unrecognised, please let me know if anyone recognises it.

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New nudiranch

On the same dive as the crocodile fish, I was lucky enough to take a picture of this really cool nudibranch. This is the first time that it has been spotted and unfortunately there was a small current so it was hard to get a really sharp image. Just shows you that you can always see new things here on the reefs of Bunaken.

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Ugly on the reefs

This ugly critter is called a crocodile fish, or sometimes a giant flathead. It’s about 1m long and lies around thinking that its camouflage is so good that it cannot be seen, but it doesn’t know how good the dive guides are at spotting things like this! I heard that three of these were spotted together on a dive a few days before, but no pictures have been provided yet so this may be another “divers tale”.

Nigel @ Two Fish

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