Lembeh Strait, Indonesia - April 2019
After a ten year absence, I returned to the muck diving capital of Lembeh on the island of Sulewesi. Spent nine days diving, three long dives a day. They were in a slow period, so I lucked out and had my own dive guide every day. Stayed at the same resort I was at before, Kungkungan Bay Resort and would highly recommend it. No shortage of critters to photograph here, so there are more pictures posted than usual. Great time - I'll be back!
- ambon_scorpionfish
- anchor_tuskfish
- balloonfish
- bandtail_scorpionfish
Bangaii Cardinalfish with fry in mouth.
- yelloweye_cardinalfish
Yelloweye Cardinalfish incubating eggs in mouth.
- barramundi
Note the Ribbon Reefgoby on sponge.
- batavia_spadefish
- napoleon_snake_eel
- black-finned_snake_eel
- bristle-tailed_filefish
- broadclub_cuttlefish1
Cuttlefish enjoying a meal.
- broadclub_cuttlefish2
Baby cuttlefish.
- cuttlefish_eggs
- dwarf_cuttlefish1
- dwarf_cuttlefish2
- flamboyant_cuttlefish
- bubble_snail-miniature_melo
- clown_anemonefish
- cockatoo_waspfish
- comet
- corallimorph_decorator_crab
- decorator_crab
- damselfish
- disco_clam
- dragon_sea_moth
- egg_shell_shrimp
- elegant_crinoid_squat_lobster1
- elegant_crinoid_squat_lobster2
- crinoid_shrimp
- broken-back_shrimp
- emperor_shrimp
- horned_sea_pen_shrimp
- bignose_seagrass_shrimp
- sea_star_shrimp
- fingered_dragonet
- flounder
- grey_bonnet
- guineafowl_puffer
- harlequin_shrimp1
- harlequin_shrimp2
- helmut_gurnard
- juvi_egg_cowrie
- rabbit_sapsucking_slug
- kuro_sapsucking_slugs
- lembeh_sea_dragon1
aka Rumengai's Pipehorse.
- lembeh_sea_dragon2
- lembeh_sea_dragon3
- many-spotted_sweetlips
- long_arm_octopus
- mototi1
Poison Ocellate Octopus.
- mototi2
- mototi3
- wunderpus1
- wunderpus2
- nudi-batangas_halgerda
- nudi-bullock's_hypselodoris1
- nudi-bullock's_hypselodoris2
- nudi-carminodoris
- nudi-chromodoris
- nudi-colorful_hypselodoris
- nudi-cryptic_thorunna
- nudi-diana's_chromodoris
- nudi-dorid
- nudi-girdled_glassodoris
- nudi-glossodoris
- nudi-kunie's_chromodoris
- nudi-magnificent_chromodoris
- nudi-many-lobed_ceratosoma
- nudi-red-lined_jorunna
- nudi-reticulated_chromodoris
- nudi-swollen_phyllidia
- nudi-tryson's_risbecia1
- nudi-tryson's_risbecia2
- green_melibe
- blue_velvet_headshield_slug
- glorius_flatworm
- polyclad_flatworm
- racing_stripe_flatworm
- ocellated_tozeuma_shrimp
Carrying eggs.
- orangutan1
With Bubble Coral Shrimp.
- orangutan2
- orangutan3
- orangutan4
- thin_ghost_pipefish
- ornate_ghost_pipefish1
- ornate_ghost_pipefish2
- ornate_ghost_pipefish3
- ornate_ghost_pipefish4
- giant_frogfish
- painted_frogfish
- striated_frogfish1
aka Hairy Frogfish.
- peacock_mantis
- pink-eared_mantis
- pinnate_spadefish
Juvenile Pinnate Spadefish.
- pipefish1
- pipefish2
- ribbon_eels
- rosy_spindle_cowrie
- shorthead_fangblenny
- sneaker
- sea_spider
- spider_squat_lobster
- spiny_devilfish
- spotted_porcelain_crab
Porcelain Crab with eggs.
- striped_catfish1
And a Doublebanded Soapfish tagging along.
- striped_catfish2
- swimming_crab
- xenia_swimming_crab
- common_seahorse
- thorny_seahorse1
- thorny_seahorse2
- threadfin_sand_diver
- whip_coral_shrimp1
- whip_coral_shrimp2
- whip_coral_shrimp3
- zanzibar_whip_coral_shrimp
- wire_coral_crab
- snowflake_moray
- white-eyed_morays
- widebarred_goby
- yellownose_shrimpgoby
- yellow_boxfish
Some Above Water Photos
- bunaken
There's some great diving here as well.
- manado
- new_hiway
- dive_sites
- divemasters
- kbr1
- kbr2
- kbr3
- kbr4
- kbr5
- kbr6
- lembeh_strait