Update and Pix from Lissenung

Here’s an update we just received from Ange at Lissenung Island Resort in Papua New Guinea:

It’s been a while since I’ve updated our dive log, which doesn’t mean that there has been nothing to report, only that we’ve been too busy to sit down and write about it.

We have done three more New Hanover trips in September, all with sucess, although one of them was a little unconventional due to our big dive boat Andioamo breaking down. One of the engines died one day, so we had to use the smaller dive boat Raven plus our banana boat to ferry tanks back and forth. It was rather cosy on the boat!

In the last few weeks, the weather has been fantastic, with no rain, just a little breeze and calm seas. However, the change of wind direction brought some dirty water with it, so wide-angle shots didn’t turn out so well.

There was still plenty of fish life, just a shame that there was so much stuff floating in the water with the fish. Dietmar and I ended up doing a couple of dives on our house reef, mainly trying to take pictures of our new resident turtles. Every morning and every afternoon they come into the shallows to munch away on the seagrass. Chivas, our dog, always manages to spot them, swimming out and then circling them for up to an hour. He tries to get a good look at them, sometimes he even sticks his head underwater. We might have to design a small diving helmet for him.

Here are some snap shots from last week. The orangutan crab comes from Kavin II, the cockatoo wasp fish and the porcelain crab from our house reef. Take a close look at the porcelain crab, and you can see not only the victory stance with one fist punched in the air, but also her belly full of little red eggs. No photo of the turtles, as the only ones I managed to get were on snorkel and they didn’t turn out very well.

Orangutan crab

Cockatoo wasp fish

Porcelain crab carrying eggs