Tanjung Kelapa
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About this site
Tanjung Kelapa is a mainland dive site at Poopoh on the south end of the Bunaken Marine Park, in Manado Bay, North Sulawesi, about 20 minutes away by speedboat. The dive starts along a sloping reef of coral bommies, seagrass and sand patches, where lionfish, ghost pipefish, moray eels, cuttlefish, nudibranchs and the occasional octopus are common.
After about 20 minutes the dive moves to a mini wall covered in sea fans, whip corals and anemones. Midnight snappers, blue-spotted trevally, bumphead parrotfish and redtooth triggerfish gather here, with the passing Napoleon wrasse, and many nudibranchs, shrimps and crabs. It is one of the better sites for the colourful nudibranch Hypselodoris apolegma.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
Moray eelMoray eelReported here · unconfirmed
SnapperSnapperReported here · unconfirmed
CuttlefishCuttlefishReported here · unconfirmed
Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasReported here · unconfirmed
Leaf ScorpionfishTaenianotus triacanthusReported here · unconfirmed
Common LionfishPterois volitansReported here · unconfirmed
Ornate GhostpipefishSolenostomus paradoxusReported here · unconfirmed
Robust GhostpipefishSolenostomus cyanopterusReported here · unconfirmed
Freckled GoatfishUpeneus tragulaReported here · unconfirmed
Panther FlounderBothus pantherinusReported here · unconfirmed
TrevallyTrevallyConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Napoleon (humphead) wrasseNapoleon (humphead) wrasseConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
Ghost pipefishGhost pipefishReported here · unconfirmed
NudibranchNudibranchConfirmed present · 2 independent sources
Bumphead parrotfishBumphead parrotfishReported here · unconfirmed
TriggerfishTriggerfishReported here · unconfirmed
WrasseWrasseReported here · unconfirmed
LionfishLionfishReported here · unconfirmed
Hawksbill Sea TurtleEretmochelys imbricataObserved near here · iNaturalist
Spotfin LionfishPteropterus antennatusObserved near here · iNaturalist
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