Manta fish kingdom in Derawan.

Manta rays are the species most large -sized stingrays in the world . Most major types can grow up to 7 meters and weigh more than 2 tons. One of the royal manta in Indonesia, located in the waters around the island of Charitable , Derawan Islands , Berau , East Kalimantan.

Fish with the Latin name Manta birostris will manifest themselves at high tide . Tide brings with plankton which is his favorite food . The sign , which was originally blue sea water began to clear muddy color due to plankton .

Charitable Island can be reached within an hour's boat trip from the island Derawan . Shortly after arriving , you can see manta began to arrive and swim just below the water surface . Speedboat should not be too close because it could scare the tame animals.
Black and sinister figure. His form is very large with a wide mouth reminiscent of the sharp -tailed stingray that can kill a human , which is different from a harmless manta. Just before we collided , manta contort his body to the base . Once graceful movements like dancers . He then swerved back toward his coming again . Manta swim fast and we just stared at the departure of the black manta graceful .
Not only one manta that appears , there are some that swim around . These animals are also known to jump into surface water . If lucky , manta can appear clustered in large quantities . This place is also a favorite spot divers because of its beauty . And this requires maintaining sustainability .
Manta is only one of hundreds of fish that live in these waters . There are at least 872 kinds of reef fish that inhabit this area with six kinds of dolphin species and three species of whales. Currently Berau Marine Protected Areas face many threats , such as the destruction of coral reefs , sea turtles illegally catching and environmentally unfriendly fishing with poisons and bombs .
In fact , Derawan island is an area with the second richest coral reefs in the world  Extensive coral reefs are no less than 66 thousand hectares . Diversity of coral reefs in this area amounted to more than 507 species , only surpassed by the diversity in the Raja Ampat Islands , Papua .
The islands are also home to nesting green turtles Chelonia mydas alias . Almost every night there is a green sea turtles that lay their eggs in a dark corner of the beach . There is also a hawksbill turtle Eretmochelys imbricata or very rare .

Ancient lake Kakaban.

Once satisfied playing with manta , can move on to the waters around Kakaban . The island is special because there is a lake in the middle of ancient contain saltwater . The lake was originally a lagoon that change shape due to the removal of the land millions of years ago . Sea water and all its contents is trapped in the middle to form a unique ecosystem .
Kakaban inhabited four types of jellyfish stings that have lost power . Jellyfish sting does not exist only in two places in the world . Besides Kakaban they can be found in the Republic of Palau , one of the Pacific Island countries .
Meet jellyfish lake like cendol . Aurelia aurita shaped like a plate of clear width . Cassiopeia ornata swim upside down with tentacles on top . Martigias Papua brown with a maximum of . We race to find Tripedalia cystophora , jellyfish tip of the nail is the most rarely found .
The lake has its own system to balance the population in the lake bottom there anemones jellyfish predators . The size of a finger , with a transparent white tendrils . Just try to hold jellyfish tendrils , he ate it with a jellyfish sucked .
To get to the lake we had to go through dense forest to the timber wharf . Stairs continued into the woods , up the hill . Lake there is a small hill behind it . After walking a few hundred meters away , up into the hills effort paid off . The sky and the sea is so blue . Fresh air blowing from the island green .

There you can instantly dive , complete with snorkel and fins . Jellyfish are plentiful and easily caught . It was like holding jelly . In other places with as many jellyfish this , there are people who would not dare to swim because it will sting .
If circumstances had been quiet , only the sound of cicadas and the wind is making small splashing on the surface of the lake . This adds to the mysterious silence of the lake still holds many secrets yet to be revealed .
Thank you for reading this article . Written and posted by Bambang Sunarno .
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