http://divekbr.com/blog Stories from the Kungkungan Bay Resort, Lembeh Strait Indonesia. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 13:31:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well it’s been two weeks since my last blog post. So I better make up for it this week. A lot has happened, including Barb and I having a week off (therefore no blog last week) and, unfortunately, Barb has had to return to Australia for a while, for personal ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=723 Two of the least dived sites we have here in Lembeh are our two wrecks. Both are Japanese freighters and both were sunk in World War II, one, the Kapul Indah, was hit by an American bomb, the other, the Mawali, scuttled. Both are in about 100ft (30m) of water ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=719 One of the many things that makes Lembeh such a fascinating destination is the amount of great critter behavior that you get to watch. Not only do you see stuff swimming/crawling around you, you also get to see a lot of wonderful interaction and behavior, whether you are watching a ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=702 This week Barb’s sister arrived from OZ for a visit. Like everyone on their first trip to Lembeh (or their second or third..) she was very excited. Having seen the photos, the videos, having heard us go on about what an amazing place it is too dive and how great ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=684 Hard to believe, but July has past us by….the weeks and months here fly by… July was a great month for diving. At the beginning of June I started asking the Dive Guides to let me know a few of the critters they saw on every dive. Over 80 different sorts ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=664 This morning we set out for our first dive. I had decided on a dive site called Goby A Crab, as I’d only been there once before and really enjoyed it. It has good sand, good rubble and good soft corals and sponges, with a lot of reef life. It’s ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=641 Not that I had thought a lot about it, but why are Urchins called Urchins? Well it turns out that Urchin is the old Middle English word for ‘hedgehog’. Suddenly it all becomes clear……. We get many different types of urchin here, and one of the most striking is the Fire ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=621 After a week away it was lovely to be back in the Strait again. Away from the hustle and bustle of Singapore City life and back to the beauty of Kungkungan Bay and the wonderful diving of Lembeh… Had anything changed in the week we spent away? It did seem that ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=603 As Barb and I spent last week in Singapore, resting our weary fins, cameras and other equipment, I thought I would write this week about are time so far at KBR and to give a quick recap of Barb’s beautiful photos and show my full length macro film. It is a ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=595 Not only does Lembeh have an abundance of rare critters that, even though they can be found in other places, are highly concentrated here, it also offers a few that can only be found in the Strait. This week is about Dragons. Now, we all love Seahorses, and we get many ... http://divekbr.com/blog/?p=574