Bangka Island Wins the Battle!

I have been posting several posts on Bangka Island and the unwanted mining industry by the residents whom majority fishermen. Now here comes the good news: Indonesian Administrative Court (PTUN) […]

Bangka Island: An Island under Threat

In Indonesia, North Sulawesi Province, between of two famous diving destination Bunaken and Lembeh Strait, there is an island called Bangka (Regency of North Minahasa). The entire coastal area of […]

Bangka’s Nature in Memories

Teri Dashfield invited me to join a five day photo challenge with song. I decided to post images related to places that I had visited and matched the images to the […]

Pink Squat Lobster

Day Five of Underwater Photo Challenge From dives I have done, I have encountered Pink Squat Lobster twice, in Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) and in Ambon Bay (Maluku, Indonesia). […]

Five Reasons to Love Scuba Diving

Of course, I’d rather be scuba diving. It is one of the travel activities that makes me close to nature and the wildlife who resides in the ocean. Followings are […]

Hi there!

I took this image during a scuba diving in Indonesia. We were at safety stop before returning to the land. I saw this little Blenny fish (Blennioidei) was peeking up […]

Handwritten Travel Diary

As mentioned on my About page, all my travel diaries were handwritten in travel notebooks. I know there is a mobile-phone app called Travel Diaries and I can type my […]

Memorable Travels of 2014

Year 2014 is near to end. I did travel this year as holiday and overall I enjoyed my break from the office routines. Those traveling days are now just memories […]

Don’t Mess with this Peacock!

Monthly Marine Life is back! I decided to publish this monthly article every 19th of the month and this post is the third edition 🙂  This time I am sharing […]

Published in “Duiken” Magazine!

Just sharing a good news: my article along with underwater photos that I submitted early this year are finally published by Dutch’ scuba diving magazine, Duiken, for its September edition. […]

Top 1000….

  Wow..I thought my submission would never make it to the first round of Top 1000 of Garuda Indonesia World Photo Contest. The contest was followed by 15,478 participants from more […]