Already more than one month diving every day since we open this year.

Because of the visibility wasn’t the best you can except in Alor we focused our diving on the macro life and discovery are yet just unbelievable:

On our house reef: 6 or more pygmy are still living in gorgonian at 24m, many leaf fish are also at home here and Dani ,our new pair of eyes, even spot a blue ring octopus ( but this was only once) , need to look for him again, I found again the clown frog fish during night dive he is getting bigger ...

Apart from the frog fish, harlequin ghost pipes that velvet ghost pipe, halimeada ghost pipe in ternate, I would like say few word about the muck diving in Kalabahi bay : several rinopias, Pegasus sea mouth , different kind of frog fish, winged pipe fish, robust, harlequin, velvet ghost pipe, many cow fish….muck diving in Alor is becoming a highlight and guests start to compare it with Lembeh or ambon...

And i almost forgot, a dugong came and circle around 4 happy guests while doing a shallow house reef dive...Alor is still THE PLACE FOR SURPRISES....

new bungalow photos

Working holiday

The resort is closed for already two months, rain is pouring at some times and all islands are green, very beautiful indeed. On the other hand visibility underwater is bad, and I postpone some exploration dive for the end of March, when it should be better.

Things are moving pretty good here: the new bungalow is almost finish, still some light to install but the main work is done (Some photos soon on this blog). Actually we work every day in improving little things but also at the resort maintenance ( bungalow, generators, engines ect…) . so we kind of have some working holiday, on the other end, we also are a bit on holiday when we are working…

Interesting news: This year, a dive master from Lembeh ( was working 2 years for lembeh Lodge, Denny) is coming to work here as a guide with Junko and me so plenty of good eyes to spot critters.

This time it was for real….

Already 4 years being in Alor and we have seem many times whales sometime from the boat but also from the beach ( where they sometime pass very close to shore )….by the way, we must be one of the only resort in the world where you can see whale sitting in your bungalow terrace.
But yesterday was something special, all divers could get in the water close to the whale and admire this more than 10 m sperm whale…this was the first time we could approach this animal so closely…no need to say that all were very happy…except me ..sniff…I need to stay out of the water for a week more because of a very bad cut…

ghost pipe fish....

I dive Alor all year long and I can say that some fish are more seasonal than some other, like the ghost pipe : It wasn't any around for a while and suddenly few appears left and right and best was at the muck dive yesterday with a robust ghost pipe, 3 harlequin ghost pipe and 2 velvet ghost pipe…will return there soon, I ‘m pretty sure there are even some more . And this is not finished, today we found what I will call a "Hairy" Halimeda Ghost Pipe.

Like you can see on the photo, it is very similar to Halimeda ….First time I see something like this and I already have more than 3000 dives in Indonesian water….

diving with currents

We all know that current dive can be demanding sometime, but what a recompense when you are hooked at 30 m and the spectacle is in front of your eyes….the dive yesterday was a dream dive …grey reef sharks circling 2 m from us, school of eagle ray above us in the blue water (they didn’t seem much affected by the current), we even had the short visit from a hammerhead shark, not so common in Indonesian water anymore. The group asked for this dive again and we did it 3 times in 2 weeks stay…sorry i don't have photo but soon some video will be on line...( soon means few months at the speed we manage to make things moving from Alor).

Summer critters

Have been busy lately, lot of diving, many happy guests, some coming back for the second time this year. Last year was the year of the harlequin ghost pipe fish we find many from all color, my favorite critter. This year is the year of the clown frog fish, some yellow, some whites, some baby orange-white some on muck diving sites and some well camouflage on colorful walls. And recently one Rinopias….hopefully, he will stay around for a while.