Sangalaki, The Home Of The Mantas

Sangalaki Island In the eastern part of Kalimantan and about 45 km from the Berau river, estuary out in the Makassar strait, lie several reefs ideal for scuba diving. The dive sites are famous for the large gatherings of manta rays and jellyfish lake. But in the reefs, in the Berau archipelago also live a lot of very interesting critters, hidden crabs and shrimps and unusual fish such as ghostpipefishes, scorpionfishes, Cuttlefish, Blue Ribbon Eels, Turtles, Manta Rays, Sharks, dozens of species of Nudibranchs, hundreds of species of hard and…

Mimi & Mintuno

Mimi & Mintuno In Javanese traditional marriage ceremony, the parents of both bride and bridegroom will give advice to them to always live together in harmony ever after like ‘Mimi’ and ‘Mintuno’. While, Mimi’ and ‘Mintuno’ is a sea animal, precisely an horseshoe crap (Limulus polyphemus) or an arthropod that live primarily in shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They will, however, occasionally come on shore. Horseshoe crabs are not crabs but they are related to arachnids. According to Wikipedia, the horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is a…

Ready To Eat Smoked Fish

Kenjeran Smoked Fish Kenjeran is famous by the fisheries products, regarding that it is near to the coast. Most of the inhabitants are living by being fishermen and selling the products. One of those products are Kenjeran smoked fish. This traditional market that selling smoked fish is located in Old Kenjeran. Along this street, we can find many stalls with the sellers doing the smoking in traditional way. Initially, the use of this smoking fish was to preserve the amount of fishes to be consume in some other times. Fortunately…

The Salted Fishes Under The Sun

Kenjeran Fisheries Kenjeran and fisheries products is connected, regarding that it is near to the coast. Most of the inhabitants are living by being fishermen and selling the products. Most of society has long been cultivated as a food processed seafood. Because those foods are typically high protein snacks and the way to process is quite complicated, the products are quite expensive for its values. There are so many types of products that being offered by the local inhabitants, and most of them are sea products. For instance, sea cucumber…