Kungkungan Bay

Kungkungan Bay, Lembeh Straits

Just north of the busy port of Bitung, in the straight formed by Lembeh Island, is some of the finest diving in North Sulawesi. Relatively unknown compared to Bunaken, Lembeh has fast developed a reputation as being the place for muck. The sheltered straits form a kind of bottleneck in the surrounding sea, which has led to an abundance of plankton.
Kungkungan Bay is a part of the world famous Lembeh strait which in the last few years has become the premier macro and critter diving destination in the world. Kungkungan also known affectionately as " muck diving" as many of the unusual and rare critters are found out in the open on black sand bottoms. But many other excellent dives are available. Kungkungan Bay Resort's luxuriuous but tasteful bungalows, an architecturally interesting, offers western cuisine and few local dishes with excellent dive center.
There are three WW II shipwrecks and one sunken Taiwanese fishing vessel to dive on. All wrecks are easily dived and are beautifully overgrown and teeming with reef life. Novice divers and experienced divers alike will find fun and exciting dive sites unlike anything they may have seen anywhere else.
There's one dive sites called Batu Angus, located at the northern end of the strait on the Sulawesi side. The side of an old lava rapid, hence the name, which literally means "Burnt rock". Here rough chunks of black, volcanic rock enclose a quiet area that looks like the mount of a river.