Dive Review of Kasawari Lembeh/Kasawari Lembeh Resort in
Indonesia/Lembeh Straits

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Kasawari Lembeh/Kasawari Lembeh Resort, Sep, 2006, by Jane Huessener, CA, USA . Report 3022.
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Ratings and Overall Comments 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Accommodations		Food
Service and Attitude		Environmental Sensitivity	N/A
Dive Operation		Shore Diving
Snorkeling	N/A
Overall Rating
Value for $$	N/A
Beginners
Advanced
Comments	This brand new resort just opened in August 2006. Built from scratch by the owners of the AquaOne liveaboard boat, the resort is small and intimate (only 10 bungalows housing 20 people), but the rooms are large, fresh and clean with the best beds, pillows, comforters I've ever encountered at a dive resort. The bathrooms are large with 2 showers--one in the bathroom and another just outside in a sheltered little patio accessed from the bathroom. The staff is understandably new and still in the training stages, but very accommodating and trying very hard to make our stay perfect in every way. The resort is still evolving--the room safes, decorating effects such as wall pictures, etc. had not yet arrived from Thailand. The bungalows are arranged in a horseshoe around a garden area which will soon be landscaped with ponds and tropical plants. The fresh water infinity pool is completed, but additional lounge chairs were still en rouge from Thailand. In a few more months, this resort will be complete, but in the meantime, we lacked for nothing and we all completely enjoyed our stay and look forward to returning and seeing the final results. Underwater photographers go to Indonesia for the little, odd stuff, and we had plenty of that. The divemasters were all from the area and found all the great muck diving photo subjects--frog fish, rhinopias, ghost pipefish, flamboyant cuttlefish, lots of nudibranchs, mantis shrimp, a baby mimic octopus, etc. Many lion fish posed openly out over the dark sand. But we also dove several spectacular tropical reefs (ie California Dreamins) that compared to the best of Fiji and Thailand. No dive was shorter than one hour. Depth was really not an issue (my computer never went past 80 ft), and no one ever had to return to the boat before they wanted to--one of the divemasters just stayed in the water nearby until you decided that your air was low. Because the dive sites were all near shore and the boat--and we were all experienced divers--we were trusted to know when our air was low, to allow for a safety stop, and return to the boat safely.
Reporter and Travel
Dive Experience	501-1000 dives
Where else diving	Previously dove all over the Caribbean, plus Hawaii, Borneo, Thailand, Philippines, Palau, Yap, Fiji, French Polynesia
Closest Airport		Getting There
Dive Conditions
Weather	sunny,cloudy	Seas	calm,choppy
Water Temp	79-81°F / 26-27°C	Wetsuit Thickness	5
Water Visibility	20-100 Ft/ 6-30 M
Dive Policy
Dive own profile	yes
Enforced diving restrictions	There were 3 boats with 2 divemasters and a captain on each. Each dive group consisted of 4-6 divers with 2 divemasters. We stuck with the divemasters because they found us all the stuff to photograph.
Liveaboard?	no	Nitrox Available?	N/A
What I Saw
Sharks	None	Mantas	None
Dolphins	None	Whale Sharks	None
Turtles	1 or 2	Whales	None
Ratings 1(worst) - 5 (best):
Corals		Tropical Fish
Small Critters		Large Fish
Large Pelagics
Underwater Photography 1 (worst) - 5 (best):
Subject Matter		Boat Facilities
Overall rating for UWP's		Shore Facilities
UW Photo Comments	Each UWP had a basket into which we put our cameras each morning and the crew carried the basket to and from the boat each dive. There are 3 large camera only rinse tanks and a large room on shore strictly for UWP's complete with electrical outlets above each of the 20 camera stations. The room is locked each night and a security guard patrols the premises at all times.

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Dive Review of Kasawari Lembeh/Kasawari Lembeh Resort in Indonesia/Lembeh Straits

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Dive Review of Kasawari Lembeh/Kasawari Lembeh Resort in
Indonesia/Lembeh Straits