Aa committed and addicted macro critter geek, I love finding things I haven’t seen before and the smaller the better…these delightful Soft Coral Pipefish made me very happy…a tiny new critter to film. And these are tiny, about 4 to 5cm long and very very slim. I had seen some photos that our guests had taken and so was very …
New Snapping Shrimp
It’s always exciting to find a critter underwater that you haven’t seen before, and even more exciting when it’s “undescribed”. Ambon (Indonesia) has some fantastic critter diving and I had heard that living in Bryozoan Coral were some critters that had not been seen before. Bryozoan is a ‘moss’ marine animal that looks, in this case, like lace. Divers often …
Photos!!
Yes, we are still here Even though it has been very hard to get out diving (for Barb and I), a lot of diving has been going on. We’ve had a great few months, a lovely Christmas and New Year, both of them, the change from 2013 to 2014 and the Chinese New Year. We’ve had a wonderful selection of …
Too long, I know…..
It has been too long since I last wrote. It is amazing me how little time I have to sit down a write a blog, but I must keep trying!!! Please forgive the lack of underwater photos or video, they will come later… So critter list….always one of the more important thing to know..so yes, we have seen Rhinopias …
Diving? Oh yes…
So now that we are officially open it time to talk a little about the diving…the problem is I haven’t been able to do as much as I would like. I’ve only made it out about 3 times since we’ve opened. It seems that owning a dive centre is a little different to just managing one! There is so much …
Open for Business!
An update at last. If I thought that we were busy getting the Dive Centre built, I didn’t think about actually managing the first group! We had sixteen wonderful guests from Singapore, all with cameras. It was fantastic to have them here and an incredible help for us to be able to listen to what was working and what wasn’t….luckily …
We are nearly there!!
Sorry for no updates recently, but it’s been an incredible busy few weeks. We’ve been going non-stop and it’s left little time for blogging…. As a picture is the best way to show the progress, here are some of the latest. The Dive Centre is nearly complete, our compressor room is finished, ready to pump air and nitrox and our …
Tiles and Bikes…..
We haven’t stopped….work has continued and the results can be seen. The roof is nearly completed and then it will just be finishing the interior. The weather has been reasonably kind. There has been a lot of rain at night, lashing down, keeping me awake, but by the morning it has usually stopped, so work hasn’t got too held …
Reaching to the sky!
Another few days have gone by, and more roof has been added. The structure is now taking shape. It is very satisfying to see the progress. Hopefully the next blog post we will start to see some tiles going on.
A Roof over our Heads…
A lot of excitement yesterday….the roof construction has started!! It is a wonderful feeling to finally see the roof go up. There has been a lot of construction work over the last few months, but it always looks a little incomplete without a roof. At the beginning of the week all the aluminium beams arrived and for the first three …
