Raja Ampat - Trip Reports

The World’s richest underwater biodiversity! Over 600 small islands surrounding the four main islands of Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo. A combination of perfect landscapes and seascapes. Limestone formations, pristine reefs blanketed by the softests corals, endemic creatures and possibly the largest schools of fish left on the planet. West Papua is a far away […]

This very special trip took us from Maumere on Flores through Alor, the Banda Sea and the Forgotten Islands all the way up to Raja Ampat in West Papua 16 days later. We enjoyed a huge variety of marine life and different eco systems as well as stunning topside scenery throughout the trip. We spent […]

The crossing is undoubtedly the most amazing diving trip you could ever do in Asia, and some might argue the world. Where else can you spend sixteen days on a beautiful boat, Mermaid II, diving the most remote and pristine reefs, walls, and pinnacles available available in what the scientists have proven to be the […]

It’s that time of year again, where the final trip for the Raja Ampat season is finished and we must make The Crossing  through the Banda Sea and into Komodo.  Before I get ahead of myself though I’d just like to reflect back to my five most favorite moments or encounters of this past Raja […]

Misool is Raja Ampat’s southern set of islands, and some might say the areas most famous and sought after. The area is characterized by karst islands which extend for hundreds of kilometers in all directions. The reefscape beneath the surface is infamous for it’s dazzling arrays of soft coral colonies and layers upon layers of […]

This trip from Ambon to Raja Ampat started off very well indeed with finding Ghost Pipefish, Seahorses, Zebra Crabs and Coleman Shrimps plus two super rare Rhinopias (a.k.a. Weedy Scorpionfish). And that’s just at the check-dive!! (Suggestions were made accordingly to just do check-dives for the rest of the trip J). We also played with […]

A wonderful 12-day trip taking us from Raja Ampat through the Banda Sea and the Spice Islands to Ambon. The variety of diving and topside scenery we had must be hard to beat! Starting off with some very active dives in the Dampier Strait, with massive schools of Jackfish, Snappers and Barracudas, Grey Reef Sharks […]

The South: Misool Like many of our Mermaid II trips, we started in the south of Raja Ampat known as Misool. Here the iconic karst islands dot the liquid blue landscape and provide us with endless diving possibilities. In the three days we spent in Misool we witnessed oceanic and reef mantas going in for […]