We had an exciting day at Pom Pom very recently. A TV crew came to visit us for the day, making films of our activities. They filmed our Water Villas and Restaurant in the morning, enjoyed the buffet lunch , then in the afternoon, came to our Yin Yang Massage Centre to visit Agnes, then [...]
Sorry for the delay, this blog is a little belated. One of our lovely Guests, Alastair from England who visited us for Christmas, sent us some photos of the dives he took with his friends. Nice photos, which included a Blue Ringed Octopus and Mandarin fish taken during their sunset dives from our Jetty. Thank [...]
For tomorrow, we are getting all romantic at Pom Pom. With lots of couples celebrating this special day, we wanted to add some extra treats, our Yin and Yang centre is offering a special couples body coconut scrub with pedestal (head) massage. Mitri, our wonderful pastry chef is making special dessert crepes freshly made to [...]
The dive centre staff have now finished replacing all the sand in our hatchery with fresh clean sand. Its been a long job, and heavy work, especially after a rain downfall, but now it is ready for the next season of turtle eggs. We have been patrolling on a regular basis, but currently there have [...]
Today, at Pom Pom we are celebrating Chinese New Year. This year we have many Chinese guests staying here for this special time. We have prepared some special treats for them, including sashimi, prepared as a special delicacy, also many sweets and biscuits. Mitri prepared fresh crepes for our guests. Our restaurant girls have spent [...]
We are very happy to welcome back our lovely Japanese repeater guests, who have returned for some time to relax and unwind at Pom Pom Island Resort, plus lots of fun diving. Today we went to Mantabuan and found along with lots of turtles and nudibranch, a huge grey painted frog fish, after that we [...]
Our lovely guest from China Mr.Wu Pan sent me pictures, here are some nice ones ;)
This week, at the hatchery, our Turtle Patrol are busy replacing the old sand in the hatchery with fresh clean sand. The reason for this is that over time, the original sand becomes dirty and we start getting tree root and ant problems. Its a big job to take out all the sand, but the [...]
We are starting the New Year as we mean to continue at the Dive Centre this month. We are actively collecting the Crown of Thorn Starfish from the corals surrounding our Island. The last few days have seen some of our individual members of staff collecting these starfish, but today, everyone took part. We have [...]
Last night on exactly 60 days, the first turtles of the New Year were born. These were the eggs that Mario and Raimond found in November, and we put in the hatchery on the 11th of November. It was a very good hatch again. This time from 89 eggs, we had 81 baby Green turtles, [...]