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Being with WWF in Wakatobi
2 – 12 November 2009
The hour we arrived in Wanci, we immediately had a meeting with WWF Indonesia Wakatobi Project Leader Veda Santiadji in their Wangi Wangi office. He offered us different travel scenarios and we got really excited when the first option was to do initial diving on a snapper Spawning Aggregation Sites (Spags) [...]
Coral Miners
2 – 12 November 2009
We noticed from early on how different the sea gypsies from Wakatobi lived compared to their Bajau relatives from Sabah, Malaysia and the Philippines. The Bajo from Wakatobi reclaimed land and had sturdy houses on top of their new land. We heard from Sugi how complex the situation is because the [...]
People of Wakatobi
2 – 12 November 2009
To many divers around the world, Wakatobi South Sulawesi is an underwater destination. Wakatobi, which is short for its many islands, stands for Wangi-Wangi, Kaledupa, Tomia & Binongko. We went to all these islands and beyond with WWF Indonesia and its partner agency TNC. We didn’t do much diving here. Rather, [...]
A School in North Sulawesi
24 October 2009
We spent a most interesting day with Simone Gerritsen and her kids from her school Kehidupan Anda or “Your Life.” The goal of Project “Kehidupan Anda” is to improve the education of the children in the village Tongkeina and the surrounding villages.
We visited the school, which is a stone’s throw away from Thalassa [...]
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Diving Bunaken and Mucking Around Manado
20 – 24 October 2009
N1 35.560 E124 46.199 – Bunaken Island
N1 34.532 E124 48.592 – Thalassa Dive Center
Off we went with the tireless Simone Gerritsen of Thalassa Dive Center in Manado to explore Bunaken and the surrounding islands as well as the under-appreciated mainland Manado. We knew to expect the steep wall dives of Bunaken [...]
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