As you approach you will see a jetty built over the large shallow lagoon in front of the eco-resort also leads to five of the guest houses. As a bonus, since accommodations are over the water, often sharks, rays and schools of fish are spotted just beneath the guest houses. The compressor, storage, toilets, baths and staff quarters are located on the island, but in distance to the resort.

The dining and kitchen house is alongside the beach over the water! You can almost cool your toes while having dinner at high tide. Inland on the beach are six very clean & roomy Indonesian style bathrooms, (called MANDIS) for the guests to share. The eco-resort currently has 5 over-water guest bungalows. Most of the buildings contain two rooms and at least one sitting area. Rooms are divided by partitions with doors and window coverings that can be closed for privacy. Each room has a mattress, pillow and mosquito net.

The rooms are furnished simply with hand-made benches or lounge chairs and tables where guests can relax, set up their camera gear, talk and read. There is one small over-water bungalow, located just a bit down the beach for a bit more privacy and contains only one room.

Take a step back, where things are simple and natural.

To reduce the impact of the environment, the resort only takes small groups of divers. Twenty is the maximum, for lodging and diving. Three custom built boats take you to top notch diving locations. They are: 7m with 1 x 115 hp outboard, 9m with 2 x 115 hp outboards, and 11m with 2 x 200 hp outboards. The boats are very sturdy and made of fiberglass construction and have first aid kits, oxygen, a compass, GPS navigation and VHF radios. It is possible to have your tanks filled with Nitrox if you are a certified Nitrox diver.

Daily Dive Schedule

Each day is different and may include from 2 to 5 dives (3 day dives + 1 night dive being the average) depending on the divers' desires. Many sites are within 5-30 min. of the resort; however some special sites are further away. Divers may choose to return to resort between dives (from the nearby sites). For the farthest sites from the resort, multiple dives (2-3) are planned and a packed lunch is supplied to enjoy during a surface interval on one of the finest deserted white sand beaches you will ever experience. Saturday is a day of rest for the staff. A night dive can be made on Saturday night, but not on Friday night. There is no Saturday daytime diving. On Saturdays there are opportunities to explore the area with a visit to a waterfall, walk through the jungle, visit a local village or just relax in the peaceful resort. Most dives are drift dives due to strong currents in the area. The currents provide nutrients for the outstanding quantity and variety of fish life and corals in the area. A fabulous variety of colorful soft corals and plenty of reef fish are found at most sites. Large schools of fish are known to populate some areas, pelagics such as sharks, Manta and Mobula Rays, dolphins, whales and turtles are frequent sights.

Papua is frontier diving. One of the last truly wild places on earth, it has yet to succumb to the pressures of overfishing, coral bleaching, exploding tourism and overpopulation. The diving reflects this. Topside there are few roads, even few boats ply the water in the Raja Ampat Islands on the "bird's head", the far northwestern end of Papua where Papua Diving is located. Underwater, the life is wild, extraordinarily plentiful and for the most part, unexplored.

The eco resort is located in the midst of gigantic reef systems with more dive sites than you could map in a lifetime! From the resort, virtually hundreds of sites with diverse topology and life can be reached with relatively short boat rides.

From mucky shallow bays with shrimp gobies, octopus, nudibranchs and "twilight zone" critters; to lagoon channels overhung by rainforest; to rock islands undercut by the sea and covered with a kaleidoscope of tunicates and corals; to offshore reefs with raging currents supporting an unbelievable variety of colorful soft and hard corals and FISH, lots and lots of large fish, the diversity of sites seems endless.
For those who love macro and are in hunt of the ever so famous pygmy seahorses the Hippocampus bargibanti in both the yellow and purple versions, Hippocampus denise which has been described first in March 2003, and Hippocampus pontohi which was recently newly discovered in Bunaken National Park but has now also been located on three of the nearest dive locations!

Manta Rays are present almost permanently at three locations close to the resort and guests thoroughly enjoy seeing them up close. Often they are at touching distance and it is normal to see 10 to 15 Manta Rays during one dive. There are many dive locations where Manta Rays are found, amongst them is the house reef Cape Kri! Furthermore there are a great number of breathtaking reefs that are truly teeming with life; many of the guests boast that they have never sen such an abundance of fish anywhere else in the world.

The wreck diving in the area is superb as well. The wrecks here haven't been plundered as in Truk Lagoon, PNG, the Solomons, Vanuatu and other well-known wreck diving areas. Most of these WWII wrecks were not seen by humans again until the day they were discovered by the divers at the eco resort and are therefore they are nearly completely intact. Over 50 years of marine life growing on and around them has turned them in beautiful gardens. By special arrangement, diving can be arranged to the wrecks in the Manokwari area (on the east side of the bird's head). Although there are plenty of wrecks all around the area, the wrecks in Manokwari are in shallow, clear water with plenty of coral growth and sea life surrounding them.