The Lembeh Squint

Nigel Marsh & Helen Rose · Issue 92, Sep/Oct 2016 · pp. 58–64

Products mentioned: Nikon D7200, Nikkor 60mm lens, Ikelite Housing, Inon Z240 strobe

After a week of diving Lembeh we started to developed something we called the ‘Lembeh Squint’. This was from having to screw up our eyes time and time again, to stare at all the tiny critters that our guide kept finding us. How he spotted most of these minute creatures was a mystery, as many were only millimetres long and so well camouflaged that they blended in perfect with their habitat. Fortunately, he also found plenty of larger critters for our cameras, so the Lembeh Squint didn’t turn into a permanent condition. Lembeh, on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, has been high on our list of places to visit for a very long time, but we never got around to organising a trip as it seemed that every Tom, Dick and Harry had been there. But with the opening of the new Cocotinos Lembeh Dive Resort, and an invitation to checkout the new resort, we knew it was finally time to visit this legendar…