Bottles-Up Diving
When you are looking for a (dive) holiday in Indonesia and don't want to be part of a larger group then you opened the right website. All the holidays we make are made exactly as you want them to be.
One week in North Sulawesi, 4 days on a liveaboard in Komodo and 2 weeks Papua; with a dive course as well? No problem. We will make an itinerary for you covering EVERYTHING from the moment you arrive until the moment you leave Indonesia.
And by the way, it doesn't have to be ONLY diving. While you are here in this huge Indonesian archipelago why don't you visit an orangutan reserve, go rafting or climb a mountain. After all those activities you can end the holiday for a couple of days in a private bungalow near the beach... if it exists we can arrange it!
After nearly 14 years in Indonesia we know a lot about this country and have done (almost) everything we recommend ourselves. If you want something we don't know from personal experience we will tell you.
So who are we; click here for more information about us.
About us
Let us introduce ourselves: we are Joan Keijer and Eelco Nieuwenhuis, a couple from the Netherlands and living in Bali since 2002.
In Leiden Joan had her own practice working as a physiotherapist and Eelco worked as a structural engineer.
Over the past 20 plus years we have been traveling around Indonesia and the beauty of this country made us decide to move here permanently.
First we would like to tell you a bit of history; we started diving back in Holland in 1993, and since then have been diving
all over the world.
A lot of the diving took place in Indonesian waters and for good reasons. We still think diving around this
archipelago is on the whole, the best in the world.
We bought a piece of property in Bali near Pemuteran up North and we moved here with the idea to start a dive operation.
Then some lunatics decided to blow up Kuta and we were forced to take another turn....
We exported furniture for a couple of years and in our spare time became PADI dive instructors. We combined exporting furniture with
freelance teaching in Bali, Lombok and Manado, Sulawesi. However, the passion for diving eventually made us reconsider and we decided
to focus completely on diving again.
In the mean time tourism picked up and many new dive operations and hotels emerged which makes choosing the right one(s) quite hard...
This is why we decided not to start a dive operation but instead to start Bottles-Up Diving
to create (dive)holidays custom made, by using those facilities which we experienced over the years to be the best.
And since we are not affiliated to any specific dive operator and/or hotel we will send you to those places we know a
re best suitable to the needs and wishes of you, the customer.
Bottles-Up Diving supports BAWA, because they are doing amazing work for all the animals in Bali.....
BAWA, The Bali Animal Welfare Association is a not-for-profit organization registered in Bali,
Indonesia and is dedicated to improving the lives of animals.
BAWA's mission: relieve suffering and overpopulation by providing medical care, spay and neutering, street-feeding and adoption, and by educating
children and adults in animal welfare. They heavily rely on the kind efforts of their volunteers and donors, including their partner organisation
in Australia, The Bali Street Dog Fund. They need your support.
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Coconut Octopus:
Amphioctopus marginatus
Also known as the veined octopus is a cephalopod belonging to the genus Amphioctopus.
The main body of the octopus is typically around 8 cm in size, and, with arms, 15 cm.
Found in tropical waters of the western Pacific Ocean.
It commonly preys upon shrimp, crabs, and clams.
Researchers observed their bipedal walking and gathering and using coconut shells and seashells for defense and shelter.
They saw the A. marginatus collecting coconut shells, discarded by humans, from the sea floor, carrying them up to
20m, and arranging the shells to form a spherical hiding place akin to a clamshell.
Although octopuses often use foreign objects as shelter, the sophisticated behavior of A. marginatus when they select materials, carry and reassemble them, is far more complex.
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