Saturday, April 14, 2007

Manado - April 07 (2)

Many of us took the photo of these creatures. Some kind of amphipod I think. They have bright orange colour, very cute.


One of my favourite photos of clownfish. It's got anemone and hard coral as the background instead of just anemone.

"Orang utan" crab again.

Funny looking crab... sooo.. cute....

This is... 一坨大便...

This coral looks like the "whomping willow" in Harry Potter. It's "arm" can catch things and pass it to its mouth in a very fast pace. Looks so weird.. like a plant that moves like an animal.

Snake eel. I wasn't sure whether it's a snake or an eel, thus I dare not go too near it...
Gab took this close up.

I love to see sun ray shines through the cloud... In Manado, the sun sets earlier than Singapore, thus when we came back from 3rd dive, it's already got evening sun. See how the sun ray shines directly on the surface of the ocean. Like there'll be an alien (Mr Bean?) being beamed down anytime. hahahaha....

The jetty at Lembeh STrait. 2 days before, some makcik came to our dive boat to sell us bracelets and t-shirts. We didn't have any money on us. They asked us to pay the next day, they'll come look for us. So the next day Gab brought the money plus a little bit extra in his dry bag. And he left the money there till the day we went Lembeh. And thank Goodness he brought out extra money and didn't take it out. We had to go toilet after a 2 hours' journey. And a visit to the toilet cost 2000 Rupiah.................... that's about S$0.35. Nobody had any money even the dive masters...................... Then I remembered Gab has got money in his dry bag... whew... thank goodness. We all expected the toilet must be super dirty. We were told that we cannot wear our slippers into the toilet, must go in bare foot. Lucky the toilet is really really clean. whew.... relieved... and because Gab's got the money, after a day's dive we came here again to have a very quick shower of fresh water. Wah, felt so good... as we still got a 2 hours car ride to endure...
I had the best lunch of all days there in Lembeh... we were served fishes. Everyday there're only 2 dishes, one meat and one extremely simple cooked vege. If you like it you're good, if you don't, then it's your business. I don't like their lunch. I didn't even have my lunch on the last day. Lucky I've got my chocolate.


Sunset at Lembeh Strait was very very nice~~~



Early morning, there was fog on the surface of the ocean. Made the mountain looked like it's floating.

The whole family of clownfish were looking at me.

Wonder this is the father or mother. It must be very very old.... Look at its face..

This little fellow was alone in the anemone. Soooooo... tiny.. soooooo.. cute.....

Lots and lots of moray babies in the grass patch. This one wasn't too shy. I used my pointer to shove the grass away in order to take this pic, and it didn't swim away. I like~

This lobster was hidden inside some coral....All I can see was his 2 feelers when I stuck my head in it. So I just anyhow pushed my camera in it and anyhow point and shoot. Who knows, this turn out to be a nice pic~ hahaha.. so happy... But because we weren't allowed to wear gloves, and I was trying to stable myself... I pushed my hands against the coral... and walau... got stung... Damn itchy until now... But it's worth it.

Gab and I chased this little fellow here and there... playing hide and seek... this is the ONLY photo I've got.

Weird looking fish~ so funny~

Guess what, I used Andy's polaroid sunglasses to take this photo. hehe.. The reef looks nicer this way.

Guy came with us to the trip instead of John SMallwood. What a surprise~ I didn't believe at all that he's going with us when he was at the airport with the rest. haha...

Doreen and Philip.

Me and Shirley.

Shirley and Andy. The resort used coconut to make the light.
Alex and George.


Our birthday cake. Gabriel, me, Alex and George celebrated our birthdays during a dive trip for the second time~~

I don't have the group photos in my camera. So, have to wait for other photos to come~

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