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Description:
The Nain Island:
Jalan Masuk
Different species of sponges, hard and soft corals with colonies of acropora you find on the wide and beautiful flat reef.
Triggerfish's, parrotfish's, bump head parrotfish's, jacks, surgeonfish's, crocodile
fishes, snappers, tunas, white-tip sharks and hammerhead sharks.
Batu Kapal
Big Stone like a bow term in front of a boat. Only for experienced divers and divers with deep dive training by experience.
The Mantehage Island:
Barracuda Point
The reef offers, sponges, whip corals and soft corals. Surgeonfish's, groupers, triggerfish's, parrotfish's, banner fishes,
snappers, big swarms of fusiliers, jacks, tunas, bump head parrotfish's, sharks and of course schools of black fin barracudas.
Gorango
Vertical canyons and many cracks is this wall showing snappers,
surgeonfish's, groupers, parrotfish's, napoleon wrasse and sharks.
Bango
Slopes and then walls. Corals growth very good here, especially soft corals.
There are also same caves. Nice and colorful to see, nudibranchs, sponges,
whip and soft corals and big gorgonians. Scorpion fishes easy to find here.
Napoleon wrasse, gray sharks, eagle rays and hammerhead sharks are in common.
The Manado Tua Island:
Negeri
Many canyons and cracks, also small caves. Very good soft corals.
Angelfishes, butterfly fishes, parrotfish's, sea snakes and turtles around.
Muka Gereja
In front of the church a steep wall with vertical canyons. Corals growth is good and there is a nice cave at 20 meters.
Normally, angelfishes, butterfly fishes, parrotfish's, sharks, barracudas and napoleon wrasse can be seeing
Tanjung Kopi
Is also a wall and offers sweet lips, emperor, parrotfish's, surgeonfish's, rabbit fishes, white-tip sharks,
black fin barracudas and napoleon wrasse. Sometimes gray sharks.
Pangulingan
Good coral formation with sandy slopes and big rocks. Sometimes-strong current also downward.
Tunas, surgeonfish's, parrotfish's, jacks, rabbit fishes are normally. Seldom gray sharks and hammerhead sharks.
The Siladen Island:
Siladen
Beautiful reef top with a huge variety of hard and soft corals feather stars, gorgonians, giant clams are normal here.
Many different species of anemone fishes, moray eels, blue ribbon eels, butterfly fishes, angelfishes, groupers, stingrays and turtles.
The Main Land:
Tanjung Pisok
The profile begins with a gentle slope and then becomes a wall and drops to 20 meters, with soft and whip corals,
big fields of acropora and colorful nudibranchs. The best place for blue ribbon eels, morays, snappers, groupers,
butterfly fishes, triggerfish's, parrotfish's, surgeonfish's, napoleon wrasse, eagle rays.
Molas Shipwreck
A Dutch cargo ship sank on the 22nd February 1942. The wreck lies on a sandy slope at 35-40 meters and
the twin screws of the 60-meter ship are still intact. Surrounded with yellow trumpet fishes, large puffers,
angelfishes, butterfly fishes, Moorish idols, sweet lips, snappers, batfishes, scorpion fishes,
crocodile fishes, and the white-tip sharks are resting in the wreck.
The wreck is very interesting and nice, but because the wreck lies very near by the city of
Manado, the visibility sometimes is lousy.
Description by Ute
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