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On October 10, Barb Jones from California completed her 2,000 logged dive while diving with Eco Divers's dive guide Adi at dive site Fukui in Bunaken Marine Park.  Barb together with her husband Dr. Alan  are our very good friends helping us with dive shows, PR and visiting us every year.

"All team is always very happy to meet you, and once again Jim, Cary, Kim, Miho and I would like to thank you both for the fantastic job and help you are giving us". 

Barb is a PADI Divemaster with dive experience in the Caribbean, Pacific and Indian Ocean's.

Manado Tua non active volcano is an Island  at about 35 min. boat ride from Kima Bajo Resort.

There are several diving sites around it. My favorite one is Pangulingan as we can often see some school of jacks, bat fish, napoleon wrasse, reef sharks and lots of fusilier.

The sloping reef reaches until 35m after that the drop off starts and goes down more than 70m deep. The visibility is all year around between 20-30m. As this diving site is right in the corner of the island often we can have currents coming from different directions, therefore we can go there just when conditions are favorable. However, during your week of diving we should be able to find the right conditions to go there.

Hard to decide with what to start.....well, first of all, the weather has been great all day long, the sea was flat and it took us just a bit more than an 1hour to reach Sahaung divesite. The boat ride to the northern tip of sulawesi along the coast line it is so peaceful and beautiful with all the green hills and the volcanoes in the background.

The first dive at Sahaung1 was great, as you can se in the picture we have had a bit of current and current was what we needed to have all the nice soft corals open.

Luckily we often have a bit of current there and sometimes can be quite strong, that is why we recommend to be at least advance diver.

 We have made three dives: Sahaung1and Sahaun2 (Bangka Island) and Batu Mandi (Right on the sulawesi coast). we have seen plenty but I have decided to post these 2 pictures as in my opinion they are the symbol of the trip to bangka. The many pinnacles covered by the most colorful soft corals and the huge schools of blue stripes yellow snappers.

In Batu Mandi we have seen also astonishing soft corals and feather stars in all different color variations but also great critters, such as hypselodoris bulloki nudibranch and giant yellow frogfish.

I went all the way down south to explore the coast of Manado, just at about an hour from Kima Bajo.

I was lucky to be with some of the friendliest and funniest guys, Matt & Jason, both professionals photographer. The weather couldn't have been better and sea, like most of the days, was nice and flat. Lovely Sulawesi :-) .

The Giant Frogfish above has been taken during the second dive. It's very nice the way they stay on the sponges. "Look at the nice contrast of colors".

By the way tomorrow we are organizing a day trip to Bangka island (Soft Corals Eden). I am really looking for it!