A Quality Dive Resort in Lembeh Strait, North Sulawesi
The Resort

Black Sand Dive Retreat is a small 6-bungalow quality dive resort located on a sheltered bay in a natural setting on Lembeh Strait , Indonesia ’s Exotic Critter Capital. This resort is the realization of a long-term dream of Bruce and Fung Moore, who have extensive experience in North Sulawesi over the past decade.
We specialize in personalized service both above and below the water, offering an exceptional dive holiday experience in "The Mecca of Muck Diving" Lembeh Strait for our discerning guests.
We understand that visiting divers have very limited holiday time and want to get the finest experience possible during their stay with us. It is the incredible diving that draws visitors to Lembeh Strait , but we are committed to providing an equally memorable resort experience.
The Location in Lembeh Strait

Our superb location in Kambahu Bay means that we are right in the middle of Lembeh’s best dives and most of the sites in the strait are within five minutes by speedboat. Directly off our fine black sand beach lies our exceptional House Reef, offering calm and current-free conditions so that dedicated critter hunters and shutterbugs can have fantastic dives at whatever time they choose.
The Diving in Lembeh Strait
Known as the “Muck Mecca”, Lembeh is famous as the best destination on the planet for what is known as exotic critter diving, macro diving, or muck diving. There are five shipwrecks (two of them Japanese WWII ships) and an impressive array of underwater topography, including pinnacles and verdant soft and hard coral gardens, but it is the plain black sand sites that make the area famous with their profusion of strange and beautiful attractions...
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Ceratosoma nudibranch with
imperial shrimps
Pink Anemonefish
Painted frogfish
with squat lobster
Mototi Octopus



