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![]() Upper: Locate Raja Ampat - Right: Locate Batanta Island. |
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After the wonderful holyday we had in 2012 with Raja4Divers on Pulau Pef
(on the map left) we were longing to revisit the area.
This time we chose one week with
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![]() The arrival was a sight for sore eyes |
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![]() The site was former a dense rainforest, and now it is gently opened
and maintained for passage between the cottages.
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![]() Between the cabins and the forest. |
![]() Entrance to the cabin. |
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![]() The jetty and the restaurant. |
![]() The cabin has a wonderful bed, a bathroom with toilet, hot and cold water... |
![]() ...and the sunset in front of it. |
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We had to use a day back in Sorong to buy clothes and what else we needed. Well, it was a bit of an experience since nobody understood english, but we got big help from the companys permanent agent in Sorong. He not only took us to the shops but also through the market. That was colorful folklore! |
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![]() Except this beautiful Frogfish,
I frankly didn't see much more than I allready saw on Pulau Pef in 2012.
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To add a little color to the former gloomy picture, you can here see a Notodoris gardineri and a Chromodoris annae. But if you want to se more of either Nudibranchs, Butterflyfishes or Anemonefishes,
then click on the names.
Anemonefishes. Butterflyfishes. Flatworms & Nudibranchs. |
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First some leviathans of the shallows, the mighty Mantas are allways impressive with their
4m wingspan. My divefriend John and I were filming them on a cleaning station...
Take a look here. ...and these meter-long Bumphead Parrotfish are also awesome when they come in a school.
Be impressed here. It's allways wonderful to be surrounded by these schools of fish in such healthy waters. And at last a collection of smaller beauties.
Short videos. |
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![]() Left: Locate Manado. Right: Locate Gangga in the red circle. |
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The resort is composed of many individual cabins scattered among the palms and trees
in a lovely garden. |
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![]() Anette on the path to the restaurant. |
![]() Our cabin and our sunset. |
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You can choose to swin in the pool "ad infinitum" - or from the beech. |
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![]() Bauhinia. |
The flowering trees.![]() Barringtonia - the box tree - is a big tree where the flowerbuds begin to open when we go to the restaurant in the evening, when we come back they are open and the next morning they are laying on the ground - sic transit gloria mundi!!!. |
![]() Plumaria. |
![]() Beach grillparty on fridays. |
The diving was nothing to write about - it's for beginners. But I had a daytrip to Bunaken and dived 3 times on these beautiful walls with a lot of turtles - when the next camera failed me. SIGH! |
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...and here Anette and I are buying new cameras in the airport of Singapore!Anemonefisk. Sommerfuglefisk. Fladorme & Nøgensnegle. |