Blue Bay DiversResort

Blue Bay Divers is a small, well-organized PADI 5 Star Dive Resort in Gorontalo Utara, Indonesia, with a lean toward photographers, macro fans and eco-minded divers. Groups stay at two or three divers, and the boat ride to local sites never tops 15 minutes. A week of diving commonly turns up frogfish, sepia, mandarin fish and minik octopus.

Day trips also head to the Lembeh Straits and Bunaken National Park. For longer journeys, the center's own liveaboard, KLM SUNSHINE, cruises to Halmahera, Central Sulawesi and the Sangihe Islands. The team speaks English, German and Indonesian.