The Indonesian town of Gorontalo is a one hour flight away from Manado city in Tomini Bay, Sulawesi. You may pass through Gorontalo on their way to the Togian Islands. However if you stop over for a few days and dive Gorantalo you'll discover some splendid diving that is only now beginning to receive international attention.
If you want to get away from the diving crowds, this is the place to go. There are over a dozen dive sites charted so far with healthy reefs and impressive marine life including several newly identified species and wonderful macro critters. Dolphins are often seen in the bay on the way to and from dive sites.
Visibility is good and conditions are normally calm with mild currents. The diving season is November to April.
Dive sites include:
Sentinels. A series of pinnacles along a sloping reef with impressive table corals, soft corals and sea fans. Reef fish include triggerfish, snapper, fusilier and angelfish. Look out for lyre tail grouper, orange back wrasse and solar wrasse which are endemic to the area. Look on coral ledges for red fire gobies and purple fire gobies plus the rare pink eyed goby. Continued >>
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