Beginning of 2011 diving season

Hey,

i know …i should give news more often…

Eva and Pierre a French instructor couple are replacing Junko, she found a new life in Switzerland…( she must miss the warm water and colorful reef already ) …so we all here wish her a good new start .The 30-40 M or more visibility is back, so nice to dive in such clear water, the reef are so colorful.

Macro diving has always is part of surprise and new discover, among them we could mention, tiger shrimp, tiny yellow and red frog fish, incredible halimeda crab ( I don’t know to call it, it was inside the halimeda grass and mimic with it, see photo), Sea horses , Pegasus, rinopias…ect.

And very last news is from our house reef where a family of orange bargibandi made home on a gorgonian fan at 24 m deep.

Till next….safe diving…

Alor Divers Video is ON

Thanks to Frederic, we have now a nice video to present Alor Divers and the diving around Alor. You will find the link via our web site or simply at : http://www.alor-divers.com/video/

Enjoy !!!

School of Eagle Rays

Thanks to Vincent, we have a nice photo to show a bit of the fish life in Alor, this time school of eagle ray….

long time no news...

This year I almost didn’t write on the blog. That doesn’t mean that nothing interesting happened. We were quite busy from summer up to December and everyday life doesn’t give us much free time.

The diving was rich in surprise these last months, several Mola Mola always so BIG, some new rinopias also Pegasus , harlequin shrimps and many of the muck diving critters.

The whales were still around like every year around winter time, they pass so close from the house reef that I’m sure we could see them if we were diving at that time.

I started underwater photography this year and I already put up a gallery on our web site.

So you can see all nice creatures we found this year…hope you enjoy the tour and don’t hesitate to write your feedback.

All the best till next time….Gilles & Neya

from Junko

The resort is still demanding a lot of work and time , so I asked Junko our Instructor and guide to write us a bit about underwater….

Night dive at house reef. I found blue-ringed octopus just after entry! The blue ring was lit up with torch was so beautiful. I almost touched it. ...no,no, dangerous.

Our pygmy's family is still there. Now there're 9 of them.

And....Dugong! In May, our guest saw him underwater! Usually they run away as soon as possible if meet divers. But this time, he swam around them! Unbelievable!!! Also few days ago, we saw him near the house reef from the boat.

by junko

This year, we saw mola mola from the boat more than last year. Few days ago, we almost managed to see him underwater!

We're on the boat to back to resort. Then something black moved on the surface. ...Mola mola!!! We knew he comes up only one or two times and goes down, so we kept on eyes to him. But this time, he didn't go down, just swam closed surface! His fin keep moving around! Ok, get ready to wet again! We put musk and fins, and I entered quickly but quietly.

....ah.....it's far.... His swimming was so quickly.... Bye bye mola mola...

But I feel we will manage to see Mola mola in underwater soon! There's no reason, just I feel!!

By Junko

On the 9th May, We saw unbelievable things during dive! What do you think???

it's.....　Dolphins!!!!!

The point was beautiful slope in Pura Island. At 25m, suddenly I heard somebody's shouting. What’s happen?? I looked up quickly. Then something big were coming from the blue. ....What? Woooooow!!! Dolphins!!!

They were passing front of us. Six of them swim together happily. How beautiful creature they are! Their smile, graceful movement. We just watched them without doing anything.

by junko

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