Sulawesea

"Hello, long time not to see you again. How are you? fine? I'm sorry if I have no post for long time :). I often forget to write and have lazy time.Today I'll give you about information of marine wildlife in Sulawesi. That's why I give the title of this post Sulawesea, it's mean Sulawesi sea. Okay, I don't want to write more, please read the article :) "

Sulawesi Island

Sulawesi or Celebes is the one of five big islands in Indonesia, it's located between Kalimantan Island in west and Maluku Archipelago in east. With a total area of ​​174 600 km ², Sulawesi is the 11th largest island in the world. In big 5 islands, Sulawesi is 4th largest island after Irian, Kalimantan, and Sumatra. Sulawesi is popular with it's beautiful ocean. There are so many beautiful corals and rare fish in Sulawesi sea.
This Island has the most popular marine park, that called Bunaken Marine Park. It's located at North Sulawesi Province precisely on the Island of Bunaken. This marine park become the habitat of 390 coral reef species as well as various species of fish, mollusks, reptiles and marine mammals. The algae species that can be found in this marine park are  Caulerpa, Halimeda and Padina. About 90 species of fish live in this region.
For you that love to dive, Bunaken Marine Park is nice place for diving, it has 20 dive spots with varying depths up to 1344 meters. From that 20 dive spots, 12 points of which are located around Bunaken Island. That 12 points of dive spot are often visited by diver.

Bunaken Marine Park

If you wanna see rare fish in Sulawesi sea, I advise you to go to Lembeh island or Lembeh Strait, this the place for looking rare and strange fish. It's located near Bitung City in North Sulawesi Province. In there we can see mimic octopus,footed fish, various colorful molluscs and so on. One more thing that make it unique is the sand, its sand is black.

I don't know what fish it is(found in Lembeh Strait)

Cardinal Fish (Lembeh Strait)

Mimic Octopus (Lembeh Strait)

                                 

In sulawesi also live the living fish fossil, that has lived from 360 million years ago. Right ! this fish is coelacant. Coelacant still live here, they live in deep sea.
I know that still many beautiful places in Sulawesi, but i'm bored now :) but from the information above you can know now the beautiful places of Sulawesi. Thank you :)





source : http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulawesi
            http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taman_Nasional_Bunaken
            http://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulau_Bunaken
            http://www.travelesia.com/2012/12/selat-lembeh-explore-keindahan-bawah.html