PuRpLe viOLet: the bunaken national park

what do you say about that pict??
omo~ i am so speechless about that pict!!!!
sooo beautiful~~

ok~ that pict is "bunaken national park or Bunaken marine park".
i'll try to share some information about "bunaken national park" although i never go to there~ hehehe..

Bunaken marine park is very popular, with an area of 75.26 hectares, is located very close to Manado and comprises of 5 islands adjacent to the Bunaken, Manado Tua, Siladen, Mantehage, and Nain.

This place came in and occupied the 10 most popular dive sites in the world to visit and dive. It offers a spectacular dive to a depth of 100 meters and an inviting warm sea water.

Bunaken National Park is very representative of Indonesian tropical water ecosystems consisting of mangrove ecosystems, seagrass beds, coral reefs, and land / coastal ecosystems.

In the northern part consists of the island of Bunaken, Manado Tua island, the island Montehage, Siladen island, the island Nain, Nain Small island, and some coastal areas of Cape Pisok. While in the Southern Cape coast includes some of Palm.

Types of animals living in terrestrial and coastal including Sulawesi black macaques (Macaca nigra nigra), deer (Cervus timorensis Russa), and possum (Ailurops ursinus ursinus).

Plant species in the mangroves of Bunaken National Park namely Rhizophora sp., Sonneratia sp., Lumnitzera sp., And Bruguiera sp. This forest is rich with various kinds of crab, shrimp, mollusks and various types of sea birds such as seagulls, herons, sea bird, and cangak sea.

This type of algae found in this national park include the type of Caulerpa sp., Halimeda sp., And Padina sp. Seagrass beds are dominated mainly on the island Montehage, and Nain island of Thalassia hemprichii, Enhallus acoroides, and Thalassodendron ciliatum.
Recorded 13 genera of corals living in waters of Bunaken National Park, dominated by fringing reefs and coral reef barrier. The most interesting is the vertical cliffs as far as 25-50 meters.

There are about 91 species of fish in the waters of Bunaken National Park, including fish gusumi horse (Hippocampus horse), white oci (Seriola rivoliana), yellow tail lolosi (Lutjanus kasmira), goropa (Ephinephelus spilotoceps and Pseudanthias hypselosoma), ila trunk (Scolopsis bilineatus) , and others.

Types of mollusks like giant clams (Tridacna gigas), head of the goat (Cassis cornuta), hollow nautilus (Nautilus pompillius), and tunikates / ascidians.

hmmm..... just enough i can share with u all.. if i share more than it, i'll more envy!!~ because i never go to there and i am very want go to there. I want diving, swimming, ahhh~ everything!!!