~Sally's Diary~ It seems to be Ornate Ghost Pipefish week here at Pom Pom, they have been spotted on most of our dives. Michelle found a tiny white one nestled in a sea fan, while 3 days ago, I found a large white ornate at 10 metres at our Magic Rock dive site whereas the [...]
~Sally's Diary~ 28.February Yunus is impressing our guests with his turtle walks. Most evenings, weather and tide permitting, we make turtle patrols around our island. Our guests are very welcome to join us and see if they are lucky enough to find a female turtle looking to lay her eggs. It is very important not to [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Miles Grogan and Yoko volunteered today to help the Dive Centre with our project of Crown of Thorns starfish clear up. We went to Mantabuan to re-check a previous site where there had been a Crown of Thorns starfish removal session in the summer. There were still some young ones there, we collected [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Sally went with the WWF to their training session on 28.Feb for learning to survey the sea grass at Mataking Island. Its very important part of our eco system which needs to be monitored, for without it, the turtles and many other life forms would suffer. We need the sea grass to be healthy [...]
~Sally's Diary~ On the 23rd of February, we hosted the WWF Adessium meeting on behalf of Gavin Jolis, the meeting was attended by Dato Panglima and his daugher, Nino Ho, WWF, Jan Versteegh WWF Netherlands, Ken Kassem, (WWF),Dr Arun Venkataraman, WWF Malaysia, Sharon Ng Lay Har, WWF Malaysia, Angela Lim Lee Hee, WWF Malaysia , [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Andy was showing how sharp his eyes were, when 3 days ago, he found a pygmy seahorse at our NEW LIFE dive site at Pom Pom Island. Located on the wall on one of the many sea fans, this little chap was well hidden, but today Andy managed to take some great photos [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Everyone at the Dive Centre and Resort is very excited about the visit from the WWF sponsors all the way from the Netherlands. They are coming here on the 23rd to inspect our hatchery, visit our snorkelling reefs and also listen to a talk by Gavin on turtle protection and other works that [...]
5 pax of Mr.Chen Si Jie Group from China took Discovery Scuba & Intro Dive Course in Pom Pom. 中国から訪れたチェンさんグループ。５名がディスカバリースキューバコース、イントロダイビングコースを受講しました。 Learn how to use equipment by Instructor Sally. Review the skills by Video and then.... start diving ! Instructor Andrea assists students wearing dive gears. Back roll & Dive to the sea ! Sally Team [...]
~Sally's Diary~ Yunus and Noah were very pleased today to report the first turtle eggs of the New Year at Pom Pom, there had been tracks before but no eggs, but now we are happy to report that eggs have been successfully transferred to our hatchery. The tracks in the sand were examined and we [...]
~Sally's Diary ~ Wow, after 2 great dives at Timba Timba, our diving guests were very lucky and witnessed a pod of dolphins close to Pom Pom Island. We had 2 dive boats and all our guests were fortunate to see the dolphins jumping and spinning in the water, we think there were about 30 [...]