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Raja Reigns Supreme
By Jovin Lim on 10 September 2008 - comments [1]
Ever since I started on underwater macro-photography a few years ago I have decided that Irian Jaya to be on my list of must-visit destinations and I had always been anticipating a visit to this mythical land. ‘Raja Ampat’ translates as four kings from Bahasa Indonesia, comprises an archipelago of over 600 islands off the western tip of the Indonesian half of New Guinea. Studies show that the exotic and mysterious islands of Irian Jaya to be the epicenter of global marine biodiversity. Dec 15th …. FINALLY the day has arrived and I’m on my way to discover this paradise on Earth and diving the last frontiers.
In the Shadow of Manado Tua: Part5
By Tim Ingmire on 4 September 2008 - comments
Day 15 – Macro
- Mike’s Point
- Wori Bay
- Odyssea Point I
Dolphins. Lots and lots of dolphins, all around the boat on the journey out to Bunaken. Spectacular jumps and leaps. Very, very nice.
In the Shadow of Manado Tua: Part4
By Tim Ingmire on 27 August 2008 - comments
Day 9 – Macro
- Gabet
- Wori Bay – Ebbing Tide
- Wori Bay – Flooding Tide
Underwater Photography Competition
By Travel Dive on 18 August 2008 - comments
Travel Dive in will be running its first photography competition.
The competition will feature photographs in the following categories:
- Big Flora and Fauna
- Little Flora and Fauna
- Wrecks
- People
- Equipment
- Places
In the Shadow of Manado Tua: Part3
By Tim Ingmire on 12 August 2008 - comments
Day 6 – Wide Angle (18-70)
- Fukui
- Sachiko
- Aba Point
In the Shadow of Manado Tua: Part2
By Tim Ingmire on 23 February 2006 - comments
Sites:
- Aba Point – House Reef
- Sachiko – Bunaken
- Tiwoho – House Reef
Aba point is a stunning wall dive which drops to about 18 meters along the wall. The wall is draped in blue and green tube sponges which put me in mind of an old ruined temple in a jungle, covered with ivy and with the occasional stone feature jutting out from the structure. In this case, the ‘stone features’ were more barrel sponges of all size. This was a fantastic dive and became another firm favourite of mine for this and other reasons.
At Sachiko we found another of the tiny Hippocampus sp. that we had seen at Fukui (although his one was a brown colour) and just like Fukui, this one was a bugger to photograph as it was sited right at the base of another boulder and beneath the skirt of a Porites which covered the rock.
In the Shadow of Manado Tua
By Tim Ingmire on 14 February 2006 - comments
It has been a long time since I’ve had goose bumps purely from excitement, longer in fact than I can remember; but as I stepped from the airplane at Manado’s Sam Ratalungi airport my skin fairly tingled with them. This was first real foray into SE Asia outside of the one city country of Singapore. What I saw as I walked along the windowed sky bridge into the terminal building was hills thickly covered in coconut trees – absolutely picture perfect but not a patch on what I hoped to see over the next three weeks. I had wanted to holiday in an exotic tropical paradise and here it was, I couldn’t wait to see more of this country both on land and underwater at some of the world’s best dive sites.
Care in the Community Visits the Cove
By Mark Davies on 20 November 2005 - comments
As a dedicated UK sea diver I wouldn’t normally consider a trip to an inland dive site really merited any kind of exposure. However, now that Tim has moved to Leicestershire he’s miles from the sea and on the doorstep of Stoney Cove, so this last few months we’ve found ourselves there more often than we have done in the past 5 years! Our visit there this weekend was so typical of the British winter diving experience I thought I’d write a few words to give those visiting our shores a bit of a flavour.
