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SMY. SEA HORSE
LIVEABOARD ITINERARY
Price includes: Cabin accommodation with air-conditioning, breakfast, lunch, dinner, biscuits, soft drinks, coffee, tea and water, dives, tanks (including Nitrox), weights and weightbelts, torches, experienced English-speaking divemaster(s), return transfers to the boat from Ternate Airport in Halmahera, or Sorong or Fak Fak Airports in Irian Jaya (West Papua Province), depending on the boat's port of arrival and departure.
Cruise price excludes (where applicable): National park fees of US$ 55 per person per trip (for Raja Ampat trips only), fuel surcharge of US$ 15 per person per night, scuba equipment, dive insurance, alcoholic drinks, flights.
 How to get there:
Seahorse departs from Sorong or Fak Fak in Irian Jaya, or Ternate in Halmahera. You can fly direct to Sorong from Bali or Jakarta. We will help you arrange return domestic flights between Bali or Jakarta and the port of departure. There is a transfer service from the local airport to and from the boat.
Dive clubs and group discounts: Pay for 8 guests and receive 1 extra place free of charge, or pay for 14 guests and get 2 free places. Note the 2007 full boat charter rates exclude the Master Cabin. 2008 full boat charter rates include the Master Cabin and are for 12 guests.
Pulau Pisang
Pulau Pisang is situated half way between Misool and Fak Fak and offers a great stop on the way. The reefs are healthy, no bleaching and fish life is abundant, turtles, bump heads, napoleon wrasse and the usual schools of fusiliers that attract trevallies are among their residents and mantas have been spotted on several occasions. We still haven't found a cleaning station, so we are supposing they are migrating without intention of staying permanently... neither are we
Air Terjun
Between Kaimana and Misool we´ll make another stop. Let us say that the diving, although not disappointing, is not at the same level as the others, but seeing the spectacular waterfall flowing down from the hilly rainforest straight into the sea is a breathtaking view!!! Lagoons where we can swim in and the possibility of a refreshing waterfall -shower? A great sensation! In this are, for the first and only time our main goal will not be underwater one. It will be a pigmy, but not the sea horse kind; we'll be looking for the rarely seen Papua pigmy Kangaroo, which happens to live there!
Triton Bay
The highlight of the area, the record breaker ( a couple of dozens of new species of fish, and another couple of newly found coral species…and we are just starting….), so far the star of the show is the recently found Epaulette shark, the only known shark which walks on its pectoral fins!!!
 We have over 20 dive sites; the soft corals are as good as in Misool area. The black coral forest never seems to end and the reefs are boiling with life. All kind of colourfull fish move around, new species of wrasses and gobies fight to introduce themselves to the divers. The topography is varied, bommies, some caves and a few hard corals.
In places like Bat Cave and Little Komodo giant groupers are hiding under the rocks. In Little Komodo and 7th Heaven everything can be experienced. If Komodo is a sum up of diving in Indonesia, Little Komodo has it all in only one dive!! Do you want turtles??..Or bump heads?? Or millions of fusiliers?? Wobbegongs? Jacks??... Go for it!!!
 But Triton Bay is more than that. There are more reasons to come to this remote area: the landscape is gorgeous, ancient paintings decorating caves and the village of Lobo is a friendly place surrounded by a 1000 metres high cliff...
Not enough?? What about enjoying the resident pod of pilot whales?
Yes, we know you like to take some macro shots and do some muck diving, well, here is the biggest difference with Misool, we can regularly find critters and some dives are just perfect for that: pygmies ( denise and bargibanti), nudies, devil scorpion fish, wonder puss, frog fish, leaf fish, ornate ghost pipe fish...
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