Diving the Lembah Strait

Anne Owen · Issue 1, Aug 2001 · pp. 14–15

with Anne Owen Many of you will have fol- lowed Constantinos’ adventures when he spent four months at Kungkungan Bay Resort (KBR) via his continuous stream of e-mail newsletters and like me, will be awaiting the belated publication of his book on the Lembah Strait. The thing is - is it all it’s cracked up to be?? Can anywhere be as awesome as Constantinos made out? Or had the sun and the nitrogen gone to his head? Well, let me say this - if you like diving in clear, blue waters - on pristine, sun-dappled corals reefs - off sparsley inhabited, romantic islands - with whirling shoals of fish dancing all about you - DO NOT GO TO LEMBAH! KBR is situated a little to the north of the large port city of Bitung, the area densely populated with people who make their living mostly from the sea and at night the whole Strait is alive with the lights on their fishing platforms. There is virtually no …