Hi everyone
We’re currently in Lembeh and struggling a bit to see the draw??
I LOVE muck diving and have done it several places, so I was really, really looking forward to Lembeh- maybe our expectations were too high?
Up till now we have done 6 dives - first 4 the dive guide was spending more time taking pictures with his own camera, than finding stuff (ok, not true, but almost)
I asked him nicely to ditch the camera and the last 2 dives we’ve seen a LOT of nudies:-/
To give you an idea of what we’ve seen in our 6 dives: Nudies (big and small very pretty- I’m getting good at finding even the small ones), scorpion fish, 1 painted frog fish, pipe fishes, 1 dragon sea mod, 1 Pygmy seahorse, 1 Wunderpus, 4-5 “long arms” octopus, 2 ghost pipefish, 3 moray eels, 2 ribbon eels, 2 juvenile bat fish.
It seems like “good” sights are far between- not like Mafia Island, where we saw great things every 2-3 m.
I was hoping for a lot more frog fishes and ghost pipefish as well as seahorses.
So what do we do now? Any recommendations for great dive spots? Try asking for another dive master (bonus, if that one would stop blinding me with his torch) Are my expectations too high?
We’re currently in Lembeh and struggling a bit to see the draw??
I LOVE muck diving and have done it several places, so I was really, really looking forward to Lembeh- maybe our expectations were too high?
Up till now we have done 6 dives - first 4 the dive guide was spending more time taking pictures with his own camera, than finding stuff (ok, not true, but almost)
I asked him nicely to ditch the camera and the last 2 dives we’ve seen a LOT of nudies:-/
To give you an idea of what we’ve seen in our 6 dives: Nudies (big and small very pretty- I’m getting good at finding even the small ones), scorpion fish, 1 painted frog fish, pipe fishes, 1 dragon sea mod, 1 Pygmy seahorse, 1 Wunderpus, 4-5 “long arms” octopus, 2 ghost pipefish, 3 moray eels, 2 ribbon eels, 2 juvenile bat fish.
It seems like “good” sights are far between- not like Mafia Island, where we saw great things every 2-3 m.
I was hoping for a lot more frog fishes and ghost pipefish as well as seahorses.
So what do we do now? Any recommendations for great dive spots? Try asking for another dive master (bonus, if that one would stop blinding me with his torch) Are my expectations too high?