When is our next dive trip? Tioman is good also. Wanna get wet~~!Here's our trip highlight. These photos are from me Michelle and Gabriel. Will post others when I received their photos. (For reference, photos here are marked with our names. Please go photobucket to download those without names)
Gabriel's photos : http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/divocean/Manado_Mar07_Gab/
Michelle's photos : http://s2.photobucket.com/albums/y22/divocean/Manado_Mar07_Mich/
(I don't know why my memory stops in MARCH... I kept thinking our trip was in Mar... thus the album name is Mar07... but too troublesome to change now. so i just leave it as it is)
On the way to Lumba-lumba Resort. It was Good Friday. There were red crosses everywhere. Manado is a very interesting place, a small place but lots of cars, and lots of good Japanese cars. AND, they have a church in almost every 500m~! Amazing, and those churches are very pretty. Can tell they spent a lot of their money in building churches.
By the way, Gabriel celebrated his birthday in the plane. I shot a short video using his video recorder, didn't have the photo in my camera... Will upload it when I have it. SilkAir gave him a cake, quite tasty. 
Arrived at the resort, having welcome drink. It'll be better if the drink is freezing cold.
We go diving~ Look at the calm sea, almost mirror-like calm. Makes you feel so peaceful and calm looking at the sea. Here were Alex, George and Philip.
There's a crab hiding in the feather star, it kept running... This was the best shot I've got.
So cute... a fish which looks like it has put on lipstick. hehe...
We never figure out what fish is this.. It was quiet big. This was at very shallow, maybe 5m.
This cute little fellow has got very nice pink colour. I wanted to shoot its sideway picture but it kept facing me... All 3 or 4 photos I've got is like this.
Snorkellers watching us watching them.
Little crabby hiding in coral.
Gabriel's favourite shot. A hawkfish. It's got a cute expression and feels like it's playing hide and seek.
Hairy hairy crabby.
"Birdie" on the move.. I don't know what fish is this.
There're bubbles coming out of Winnie's hood and I thought it was very cute :p
Yook Sau~ "007"...
Nice nudibranch.
A scorpion-posture-like shrimp... so funny...
"Birdie" again. Very funny thing, always in pair, the one behind will follow the exact movement of the one in front. But difficult photo subject... cos their comouflage is so good.
Very pretty nudibranch~
A big mouth it's got there.
Our favourite shot of the trip. Lizardfish eating pipefish.
I saw the pipefish behaving very quietly near the bottom, I hesitated whether to call Gab to take some photos of it. In the end, I decided not to and just take the picture by myself cos a pipefish is nothing unusual. Just when I was about to descend further near to it, "zoop!" the pipefish was eaten by the lizardfish! Amazing! I then frantically rang my bell to alert Gab.
Think it got startled a bit and the lizardfish turn the other way. By now Gab and I were on either side of it. The pipefish turned white colour.
I don't think the lizardfish can swallow the pipefish whole... so it's got no choice now... can't finish its meal and perhaps it thinks it's safer to hide in the sand.
But it managed to only submerged itself, the pipefish was exposed. You can see the lizardfish's eyes.. sooooo... funny... Poor pipefish, there's nothing it can do. Then Gab made a movement, the lizardfish got scared and spilt out the pipefish!!! and ran away. The pipefish's tail was bend. It still can swim, I think it will survive... Poor lizardfish... Gabriel made it lost its meal. hahaha... But the lizardfish was too greedy to think that he can swallow the pipefish whole...
Cow fish. Look at its eye... from this angle, it has got a love shape~~
Sun tanning on top of the boat~ We love this boat. Very comfy and entry and exit out of water is very easy.
I've never really see the sun actually sinks down to the horizon. In Tioman, it's always blocked by clouds. And now finally...
Too bad don't have a tele-lens to capture it nearer.
Colourful nudibranchs.
This is so cute~~
Lionfish at the grass patch. We love the grass patch, a lot of things to see.
Gab tried to wait for the shrimp to go into the eel's mouth but it didn't. And notice the small baby eel beside. Soooooooo cuteeee.... There were a lot of creatures around these pipes alone. A lot!
A fatty.....
Sea urchin's eye.
This makes a nice abstract picture.
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