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On the boat heading over the Lembeh Strait

Fish Heaven and Hell - Bunaken and Lembeh

May 21st 2013
The final leg of our trip took us back up to Northern Sulawesi. The first stop was Lembeh Strait, famous in the diving world for being the "Critter Capital of the World." Interestingly, it is a kind of hell for fish with a litter-strewn black sand sea bed seemingly devoid of any marine life. On closer inspection, however, you can find a myriad of strange, rare, and often creepy critters. Scott and ... read more

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Sharon and Scott

Born to travel

Scott and I have always been travellers at heart. We first met on the beach in Spain in 1995 and had what we thought was "just a holiday romance". We met again briefly a year later in Salzburg, Austria and then a few years later in Hawaii. At the time, I was working in Japan, and Scott was back in California after his two years in Barcelona, Spain. Together, we have left it all behind to backpack around the world, not once, not twice, but three times. Travel really is addictive! Each time, we'd quit our jobs, put our meager belongings into storage or sell what was too big to store, leave o... full info

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