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Underwater Photos: Scuba Diving Bunaken Manado Sulawesi Indonesia - Daniel Katie Peckham

Bunaken

The day after Katie and I arrived, we headed out to nearby Bunaken Island to enjoy the tropical ocean. Mom & Dad snorkeled while Katie, Joe, Jessica and I (Daniel) went scuba diving (including a night dive). The second day I was planning to dive some more, but got sick and had to skip the remaining dives. Thanks to Scuba.com for letting me borrow the underwater camera to capture some of the beauty we saw.

A Bunaken dive guide in the foreground, Manado and its surrounding mountains in the background.
Joe, Jess & Katie ... all looking at the same thing?
Daniel
Dad, talking with Dani, a fellow diver and Bunaken guest.
The Indonesian flag.
Joe and Katie's fins in Bunaken Underwater National Park.
Clownfish.
A striped snail on the right, and a small purple pygmy seahorse in the upper lefthand corner (which we did not notice until we were putting the photo up on the website!)
An amazing, translucent ... thing. It must be a coral of some sort, or a sea squirt (anyone know?).
A parrotfish. You can see the protective bubble of spit he blows around himself when he's waiting for food.
What a charming home!
A nudibranch, or slug. This one is probably half an inch long.
More nudi's
These nudibranchs remind me of those gumdrops covered with little candy balls.
Butterflyfish with coral (and something else interesting in the upper lefthand corner... again something we only noticed as we put it up on the website!)
An orange scorpionfish in front of a green seasquirt.
A barber shop shrimp (nicknamed for his claws, which look like the red-and-white, candy-striped barber shop poles). This is NOT the exact shrimp who starred in Finding Nemo (dentist's fish tank), but I think he's a second cousin.
Can you see the crab in the middle of the picture?
The same crab.
No, not an underwater mine - this is some kind of sea urchin! Each of those spikes are about 5 inches long.
Very large crab (about 1.5 feet wide).
Two Fish Divers Resort, where we stayed.
Joe
Katie
Moorish idol (not related to the one from Nemo, but they were friends).
This sea sponge (3 feet in diameter) was looking for her dentures.
Nemo tells me this may lead to the EAC (East Australian Current).
Feather coral.
Katie
At the surface, it was rainy, wavy and cold! We were lucky that the resort sent us along with hot drinks and cookies...
Jess, surfacing from her instructional dive.
Dad snorkeled down to see us.
Lionfish.

Recent photo comments

Joe, emanating his usual coolness.

Matthew: He's so excited. And he just can't hide it.

Nope, not a giant cantaloupe. I know, hard to believe. This is brain coral.

Matthew: Mmmmmmmmmmmm..... Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaains....

An amazing, translucent ... thing. It must be a coral of some sort, or a sea squirt (anyone know?).

Mom Takahashi: This might be my favorite, too.

A striped snail on the right, and a small purple pygmy seahorse in the upper lefthand corner (which we did not notice until we were putting the photo up on the website!)

Mom Takahashi: A-mazing. This might be my favorite. Daniel - you are incredible!!

Katie Peckham: I think that's the silhouette of our dive boat in the upper righthand corner.

Daniel: Or maybe that whale shark we saw....oh, nevermind.

Lionfish.

Daniel: If you look closely on the left you'll see a red Sesame Street character.