Dusty seahorses and sandy frogfish

First time we came here I wasn't at all into muck diving. Swimming around a couple of inches above the sandy bottom looking for strange creatures wasn't that exciting. My buoyancy was quite bad and I remember using up a lot of air just to stay above the sand enough to not stir it up with my fins, which resulted in not seeing anything. We came to Lembeh to watch frogfish, scorpionfish and seahorses. I must say that I didn't really get it, the muck diving on Lembeh.

But since then I have become friends with those sandy, dusty creatures. And we have now spent a week with frogfish, scorpion leaf fish, wonderpus and tiny crabs, getting super happy the stranger and more uncommon they look. It is almost like a treasure hunt in the volcanic black sand. 

Last day we went out to the corals in the open sea, though. It was good getting rinsed off by the blue clear water and I noticed one scorpion fish doing the same thing. We all needed a Friday bath out in the ocean, diving along the wall of corals.

The evenings were nice and cool and we tried to remind ourselves that during the unforgiving afternoon heat. Waking up with the sun around six and drinking the morning coffee while watching the stunning view of the Klabat Volcano is probably the best part of the day. At the other direction we had a beautiful lagoon, unfortunately full of box jellyfish which are quite stingy.

The sun set early and at ten it had been dark forever. It took me some years, but I would say that I get it now. The beauty of it. I get the muck diving on Lembeh.