Celebes Sea - August 2007
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Panoramic view of the famed Mandarin Valley dive-site

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Swimming area within the resorts natural lagoon

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Views from the Restaurant Terrace

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Sunrise from the Resort Rooms

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Inside a typical Double Bedded Room

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Spacious Bathroom overlooking the Ocean

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Maldives without the Crowds !

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Snorkelers investigate Downbelow

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Luxurious Resort Rooms

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View of Sipadan from previous resort room

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A View east from Dive Station

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Resort Helipad

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Spacious Dinning Room

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Dive Boats at the Dive Station Jetty

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A Blenny comes to say "hello"

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Damselfish

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Swimming Blue Ring Octopus - Hapalochlaena sp

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Blue Ring Octopus. For more info please visit our Octopus page.

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Many colour changes of the Blue Ring Octopus

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Displaying its vivid Blue Rings.

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Ben admires a Crocodilefish beneath the Dive Jetty

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Orangtail Shrimp

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Spotted Sweetlips

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Spotted Sweetlips

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Harlequin Ghostpipefish

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Juvenile Box Fish

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Interesting patern of a Sea Cucumber

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Feather Stars on Lobster Wall - Mabul

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Fingered Dragonet

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Many Frogfish reside within the artificial reefs.

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Two Flamboyant Cuttlefish

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Flamboyant Cuttlefish

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Bubble Coral Shrimp

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The Boatmen take their lunch time nap !

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Frogfish. For more info please visit our Frogfish section.

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Nudibranch - Glossadoris atromarginata

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"Solar Powered Sea Slug" P. briareun.

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A nice pose for the camera !

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Coral Goby

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Sea Slug - Halgerda batangas

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Jo admires one of the many beautiful soft corals

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Beneath the Resort Jetty

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Frogfish. Please visit our News and Events page for an interesting Froggy find.

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A Frogfish rests within a old tyre

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Sweetlips beneath the Resort Jetty

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Juvenile Wrasse

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Squat Shrimp

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Nudibranch - H. bullockii. For more info please visit our Sea Slug Guide.

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Nudibranch - Nembrotha guttata

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Nudibranch - Chromodoris annae

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Nudibranch - Nembrotha kubaryana

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Octopus spp. Just two inches high.

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Octopus spp. Same as previous animal, not yet identified.

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Common Day Octopus

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Changing colours and textures of the Common Day Octopus

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Plumed Shrimp

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Ribbon Eel. Please visit our Eel section for more creature info.

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Shrimp species P. kororensis

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Lionfish floating motionless

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Coral Cod

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Devil Scorpionfish

Surpassing all expectations for divers and non -divers alike, this trip was full of treats. With luxury accommodation over the ocean and posing Blue Ring Octopus, we can't wait to return in October. For more information about the resort please visit our Island Accommodation page and for more dive site information please visit our Kapalai Dive Site page.

Should these images tempt you into visiting either with us on our next trip or independently, please contact us and we'll put you in touch with the resort directly. You can find all our upcoming trip dates posted on our News and Events page, or if you prefer to be notified by email, just drop us a line and we'll add you to our Dive Trip Mailing List.
Sipadan Kapalai Dive Resort