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Located on the most beautiful part of Lembeh Island, Divers Lodge Lembeh Resort is a haven for divers. All bungalows offer ultimate privacy and amazing views.

With our unique private boat and private dive-guide service you get the best out of your dives. Divers Lodge Lembeh is the dive resort with the most beautiful location on Lembeh island. Our goal is to give you the best holiday and diving experience during your stay in North Sulawesi. We offer a diver-to-guide ratio of 2:1, have no dive time limits and our excellent guides will find even the tiniest critters for you. The resort is situated on a hill side with a peninsula in the front covered in forest and coconut trees and water to both sides of the hill (Lembeh Strait and Walenekoko Bay). With a total of 9 bungalows located well apart from each other we offer absolute privacy within nature for your relaxation.

31/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 08 · Lembeh Strait, 2013
Bernd Hoppe (Bernd Hoppe) · 92 photographs, 83 species.

Bernd Hoppe dived with us over the new year 2012–13, more than ten years before the December 2023 photos we shared in Guest Lens No. 06. On the cover: what's inside, written over one animal from each of the next sixteen slides.

Swipe for:
• a wunderpus, blue-ringed octopuses, a cuttlefish and a squid
• six species that science hasn't named yet, the Pikachu nudibranch among them
• hairy frogfish young and grown, and painted, giant and warty ones
• seahorses large and small, and ghostpipefish dark and light
• six pipefishes, and scorpionfish and waspfish that are easy to miss
• crabs and shrimps that live with urchins, and three harlequins
• more shrimps and crabs, and an egg cowry
• three slides of sea slugs
• eels and gobies with their heads out

All 92 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Guide & Underwater Gallery, at diverslodgelembeh.com/lembeh-species-gallery
More of Bernd's photos on Flickr: https://flickr.com/photos/berndhoppe

Thank you, Bernd!

Dived with us before? Send us a message. We'd love to add your photos to the gallery.

21/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 07 · Andreas Ahrens
April 2024 - South Lembeh
9 photographs, 4 species.

Andreas Ahrens came back in April 2024, and this time he also dived South Lembeh, on the southern side of Lembeh Island. Most diving in Lembeh is muck diving in the strait. The south is a different experience entirely: coral walls, gardens and large schools of fish, accessible from November to April.

Swipe for:
-a blue-ringed octopus, his second after August 2023
-two cuttlefish: one stays small, one won't
-South Lembeh's reefs: feather stars, a giant sea fan, a pink tube sponge and pink whip corals

On the cover: a yellow gorgonian sea fan with a school of fish.

All 9 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery.

Thank you, Andreas!

20/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 06 · Bernd Hoppe (Bernd Hoppe)
Lembeh Strait, December 2023
39 photographs, 27 species.

Bernd Hoppe dived with us in December 2023. On the cover: a pregnant pygmy seahorse, a species usually less than 2 cm tall. The father carries the eggs for about two weeks.

Featuring:
- the pygmy seahorse's relatives, among them the Lembeh seadragon
- two species science hasn't named yet, one of them - - the hairy octopus
- blue-ringed octopuses and a wunderpus
- a jawfish with a mouthful of eggs, and a newborn frogfish
- painted frogfish in orange, red and yellow, one of them almost invisible
- a hairy frogfish, from the front and from the side
- gobies and egg cowries that live on coral
- shrimps, porcelain crabs
- Christmas tree worms
- fish faces

All 39 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery.
More of Bernd's photos on Flickr: flickr.com/photos/berndhoppe

Thank you, Bernd!

Dived with us before? Send us a message. We'd love to add your photos to the gallery!

18/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 05 · Gail Vest & Peter Christen
December 2023 · Lembeh Strait
141 photographs, 131 species.

Gail Vest and Peter Christen dived with us in December 2023. On the cover: a butterfly sea slug, Cyerce blackburnae, a species first described in 2025. It isn’t a nudibranch but a sap-sucking sea slug, which lives on the contents of algae cells.

Swipe through all 20 slides for:
- four octopuses, three cuttlefish and a pygmy squid
- four Phyllodesmium, one of them solar-powered, and Moebius’ big aeolid
- eighteen more sea slugs
- eight species still waiting for a scientific name
- four yawning frogfishes
- two animals we couldn’t identify. Can you?
- seahorses, shrimps, crabs and mantis shrimps
- mandarinfish, scorpionfishes, a blenny in a bottle and more

All 141 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery. Link in bio.

Thank you, Gail and Peter!

17/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 04 · Faycal Chabini
October 2023 · Lembeh Strait
25 photographs, 19 species.

Faycal Chabini (Faycal Chabini) dived with us in October 2023. On the cover: a flamboyant cuttlefish, eye to eye with Anto, one of our dive guides.

Featuring:
-a wunderpus, and a coconut octopus in two colours
-a bobtail squid and a dwarf cuttlefish in disguise
three frogfishes, one of them mid-yawn
-a pair of ornate ghostpipefishes, and one hiding in a feather star
-a young ribbon eel, before it turns blue
-the fastest punch on record, and a shrimp that rides on sea cucumbers
-a crab dressed in coral, a paddle flap scorpionfish -three nudibranchs up close

All 25 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery!

Thank you, Faycal! See more of his work at Faycal Chabini.

Dived with us before? Send us a message. We'd love to add your photos to the gallery!

16/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 03 · Andreas Ahrens
August 2023 · Lembeh Strait
15 photographs, 14 species.

Andreas Ahrens dived with us in August 2023 and came home with a set of Lembeh classics.

Featuring:
- a blue-ringed octopus and a flamboyant cuttlefish
- one hairy frogfish and two painted ones
- a pygmy seahorse
- two ghostpipefishes that hunt head-down
- a ribbon eel, which turns from black to blue to yellow
- two nudibranchs, one caught laying its eggs
- a harlequin shrimp on a sea star (its main food)
- a zebra crab and a yellow tozeuma shrimp

On the cover: a mandarinfish, named for colours that recall the robes of an imperial Chinese mandarin.

All 15 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery.
At: www.diverslodgelembeh.com/lembeh-species-gallery

Thank you, Andreas! He was back with us in April 2024, and those photos will feature later in the series.

15/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 02 · Don Silcock
May 2023 · Lembeh Strait
18 photographs, 15 species.

After our 2007 archive, the next photographs in our gallery came from underwater photographer Don Silcock (Don Silcock), who dived with us in May 2023!

Featuring:
a coconut octopus at home in a bottle and in a shell, and holding both halves of another
a mimic octopus and a blue-ringed octopus
a pygmy seahorse, usually under 2 cm
a flamboyant cuttlefish, which walks on its arms
three nudibranchs, a devil scorpionfish and a spiny devilfish that walks on its fins
a juvenile starry pufferfish, a Napoleon snake eel and three masters of disguise

All 18 photographs are in our Lembeh Species Gallery
At: www.diverslodgelembeh.com/lembeh-species-gallery/

Dived with us before 2023? If you still have photos from your stay, please send us a message! We'd love to add them to the gallery!

14/10/2026

Guest Lens No. 01 · Lembeh, 2007
The oldest photographs in our Lembeh Species Gallery, taken by guests in the resort's early years.

This is the first post in a new series that works through every set of photographs in our gallery, from the oldest to the newest.

In 2007, some of Lembeh's best-known critters had only just been named: the mimic octopus in 2005, the wunderpus in 2006 and the Lembeh seadragon in 2007. One of the pygmy seahorses here, Hippocampus pontohi, was not formally described until 2008.

Swipe for a mantis shrimp carrying her eggs, two pygmy seahorses, a frogfish fishing with its lure, mandarinfish, scorpionfish in disguise and an endangered cardinalfish.

Thank you to the guests who started it all: Jonathan Bird, Hélène Caillaud, Dominique Colletti, Marcus Commodore, Fredrik Ehrenström, Jukka Halme, Janny Heringa-Bosman, Bruce Magun, Alan Powderham, Markus Roth, Olivier Simons, Wouter Suyderhoud, Mark Tarczynski and Danny Van Belle.

Two photos in this collection have lost their credit: the blue-ringed octopus and the harlequin shrimp on a sunken sheet of music (slide 10). If one of them is yours, or you know who took it, please tell us.

07/10/2026

It's official! The house-reef in front of Divers Lodge Lembeh and the northern part of Walenekoko Lagoon are now a protected no-catch / marine protected zone (Zona Larangan Menangkap).

On 6 October 2026 the zone was approved by the Camat of Lembeh Selatan, the Danramil (Koramil Lembeh Selatan), the Kapolsek (Polsek Lembeh Selatan) and the Lurah of Paudean. Thank you all for your trust and support!
📍 Zona I: the reef in front of our peninsula, facing Lembeh Strait (± 9.2 ha)
📍 Zona II: the northern part of Walenekoko Lagoon (± 4.7 ha)

Inside the zone there's no fishing, no nets, no taking coral, sea urchins or other sea life, no anchoring on coral and no dumping rubbish. Boats can still pass through, divers and snorkelers are welcome (look, don't touch), and the traditional fishing grounds outside the zone stay open.
Why? These waters are where fish spawn and grow up. Protected here, they spill over into the surrounding fishing grounds, so in the long run there are more fish for everyone.

On the same day we also planted 500 new mangroves along our beachfront facing Lembeh Strait.

04/10/2026

Lembeh Strait Underwater Highlights - by Antonius van Moll (September 2026)
🐙 Critters featured in order:
1. Coconut Octopus, using two sea shells as shelter (Amphioctopus marginatus)
2. Deepwater Frogfish, on a starfish (Nudiantennarius subteres)
3. Blue Velvet Headshield Slug (Chelidonura varians)
4.Randall’s Frogfish (Antennarius randalli)
5.Trio of Banggai Cardinalfishes (Pterapogon kauderni)
6. Estuary Seahorse (Hippocampus kuda)
🗓 Photographed at early September, 2026
📷 Photographed by Antonius van Moll
🤿 Guided by Divers Lodge Lembeh

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