Weda Bay Reefs

Weda Bay is a large, sheltered embayment on central Halmahera's east coast, enclosing some of the least-disturbed coral gardens in the Coral Triangle, with hard coral cover in shallow zones that would be unusual anywhere else in Indonesia. The bay's calm, clear water and gentle currents make it ideal for extended reef dives in 8 to 25 m, where divers encounter dense schools of anthias over staghorn thickets, pygmy seahorses on sea fans, and the occasional hammerhead shark on the deeper outer reef. The surrounding mangroves and seagrass beds form a complete nursery ecosystem rarely preserved intact elsewhere in the region.