水肺潜水in Halmahera Indonesia
halmaherais the largest of the Maluku Islands, North Maluku Province, Indonesia, between Northern Sulawesi and Raja Ampat. Nicknamed “Gajah Tidur” or the Sleeping Elephant, Halmahera has a distinct shape, complex geography, and rich coastal habitats.
In a report from 2017,物种丰富性和相对丰度of Reef-Building Corals in the Indo-West Pacific, Halmahera, in particular, is noted as having the higher concentration of coral diversity in the world.
In 2008, scientists reported 224 coral species on a single dive site in Halmahera, which was themost species recordedfor any single location. This report came from the April 18th 2008 from Loloda Utara Dive Site located off the northern tip of Halmahera, near Rau and Morotai Island.
Getting to Halmahera
We flew from Bali via Makassar, from there a second flight to the tiny island of Ternate, off the west coast of Halmahera. From Ternate, you will have to catch a local taxi boat for the 1hr ride over to Sofifi a city on the mainland of Halmahera.
从Sofifi到Weda Bay是另外两个小时的汽车。我们沿着海岸线旅行，然后穿越中央山脉。这韦达Reef and Rainforest Resortis the only dive resort located in Weda Bay, Southwest Halmahera.
WEDA Resort将帮助组织您从Ternate Airport到Weda的转移。对于真正的冒险界，您还可以从Sofifi抓住或租用当地交通工具。三层岛的人口明显比大的霍尔玛岛岛更为重要。风景秀丽的汽车穿越Halmahera蜿蜒穿过人口稀少的村庄和郁郁葱葱的热带丛林，给人一种狂野的冒险感。
这re are a few flights arriving daily to Ternate island. The main cities you fly through are Makassar, Jakarta, and Manado. Fly with Batik and Lion air.
我用了Traveloka应用程序to book these flight as Lion and Batik airlines will not appear on some other search engines. But to be honest I am now very happy with how easy it was to use Traveloka. During this trip I even needed to rebook a flight and could do that directly hassle-free in the app! Not an ad, but a solid tip if you are planning your own trip to Ternate.
Geography and Natural History
从地理上讲，霍尔玛拉岛震惊了赤道。在韦达湾，有可能在北半球和南半球潜水。Weda礁和雨林度假胜地位于赤道的北部，北部为0°25’23“ N！
我花了几乎一整天到达韦达湾海岸，到达halmahera是冒险的一半，但是与博物学家的史诗般的旅程相比，没有什么比阿尔弗雷德·罗素·华莱士（Alfred Russel Wallace）他访问了Halmahera，如他1869年的书中所述马来群岛.
It was here, in February between the bouts of fever, that suffering Wallace came to the idea of the natural selection via the survival of the fittest. Wallace wrote his ideas during the next couple of days, and sent the historical letter to达尔文.
华莱士认为标准翼极乐鸟,半翅目Wallacei, to be his greatest prize, and Halmahera including the Weda Resort is well known to bird watches just as much as divers. You can organize tours from Weda to see birds of Paradise and there were just as many bird watchers staying at the resort as there were divers.
水肺潜水
As I mentioned Halmahera has an exceptionally high diversity of coral species which had me bouncing off waterfalls in preparation for this expedition.
With very little information available about this remote location (especially about corals) we really didn’t know what to expect. During the Halmahera survey expeditions, the highest diversity of corals was noted on the Northern tip of Halmahera, but we hoped to find some interesting dives in Weda.
珊瑚Jackpot!
韦达湾（Weda Bay）的测深度很复杂，山脊，尖峰和古老的火山产生了多种潜水（和珊瑚）栖息地。一年中的某些时间大浪进入韦达湾（7月至8月），但该地区没有任何热带风暴，因此珊瑚能够在没有自然干扰的情况下成长。
我们发现了巨大的珊瑚殖民地，数千年历史的殖民地，精致的瓶颈珊瑚的完整田地，蓬勃发展的Acropora珊瑚礁，破坏了水面，而不是只有其他的潜水船。
I was invited on this trip by photographer马库斯·罗斯（Markus Roth）记录该地区的珊瑚和潜水操作。我们在韦达（Weda）和下半场在劳岛（Rau Island）的下半场度过了一半。潜水超出了令人难以置信的超越，每个度假胜地的四天还不够！
Markus was able to snap a few lucky shots of me capturing the beauty and the shallowAcroporagardens and cruising above ginormousTurbinariacorals.
Halmahera的珊瑚礁蓬勃发展，几乎没有潜水的旅游业，精致的珊瑚礁生态系统处于原始状态。这韦达礁与雨林度假胜地has been batteling with荆棘冠outbreaks on certain reefs, trying to keeping the voracious coral eating echinoderms in check.
本文是有关Weda Halmahera潜水的一般信息。有关潜水站点和珊瑚种类的具体信息，请始终关注重新的重生，我将使用新的潜水站点描述来更新本文。我们已经写了一份报告Gorango Reef, and theAcropora plumosa珊瑚在Kobe Reef,而且，您可以期望很快推出更多特定于现场的珊瑚发现文章！
非常感谢韦达Reef and Rainforest Resort为了向我们展示Halmahera。
