Posted on 03-12-2006
Filed Under (Scuba) by rinjani

I recently returned from a short trip to do some muck diving in Lembeh. My wife and I stayed at The Lembeh Resort and had a wonderful time. The resort did a wonderful job, providing some excellent guides, and keeping the diver groups to a managable size. Although there were about 30 divers at the resort we were kept to groups of no more than 6 with 2, sometimes 3, guides – a pretty good ratio. The food was also very good, although slightly heavy on the American/European side for me, with nice variety and plenty of options.

Lembeh Straits
Lembeh Resort
We were lucky enough to see a wide variety of Lembeh critters including mimic octopus, hairy frogfish, all manner of other frogfish, mandarin fish, sea moths, the ugly Inimicus and sinister stargazer, sea snakes, eels and a wonderful number of nudibranchs. In addition to these sights we also encountered two types of Rhinopius, several species of octopus and sea horse, and numerous other critters.

 

The visibilty was poor to bad, except for a dive out at California Dreaming, we were lucky to get 20ft and a murky 20ft at that with sea-snot flying by. On the other hand, how often do you see free swimming sea horses, hunting eels and giant mantis shrimp?

Here’s a link to some images from the trip:

Images from Lembeh, 2006

 

 

 

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