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A new design for the Bentenan website... There are
still a few things missing, like more underwater pictures and descriptions of
the dive sites but we'll try to put together everything as fast as possible.
Special thanks to our guests Franz and Ulrike Stein from Germany for the dive
site map and lots of pics. Many more dive sites
still have to be discovered, so here is the chance for divers to name new
spots. Where else can you do that...?!
During the next couple of months we want to step up other promotional
activities as well. BBR is not really a mainly profit-orientated operation
though. The profit that we make will be used to finance our various communal
activities and a few upgrades at the resort. You will feel this approach when
you are staying with us: it's not your money that we are mainly interested in, it's you as a person, and our wish to show you our
world at BBR. The world that we love and that we want to make you a part of,
not only during your stay...
The-webmaster
2009
If everyone is in the
right mood, staff, village people
and guests are playing a few songs together in the
evening. On guitar: Sammy Ade Supit, owner of BBR
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About Sulawesi
SULAWESI, Indonesia's fourth largest island, splays like a drunken spider
on the seas between Borneo and Malukku. The long
narrow arm of the mountainous northern peninsula contributes most to the
island's contorted shape. The province of North Sulawesi occupies the
majority of this strikingly beautiful peninsula and accounts for 13% of
Sulawesi's 159,000 sqkm of land area.
The island's physical beauty, with its forested mountains and stunning
coral reefs, is surpassed only by its intriguing biology. Sulawesi is the
largest and most central island of Wallacea, a
unique region of the world where plants and animals from Asia and Australia
mix. Here we find Asian monkeys sharing the forests with cuscus, pouched
mammals of Australian origin. Throw in peculiar species such as the Babirusa, or "deer-pig", with tusks that curl
upward through the snout and the maleo, a
chicken-sized bird that incubates large eggs in hot volcanic soils, and we
have a queer and unique mix.
"Wallace's Line" refers to the remarkable change in wildlife that
takes place east of a line drawn between Bali and Lombok and between Borneo
and Sulawesi. Many characteristic Asian animals like the great forest cats
terminate their ranges on the west side of this line. Both the geographic
region and the line are named for the famous English naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, who traveled to Sulawesi in the late
1850s. Wallace was the first to write about the unusual characteristics of
the region's wildlife in his still fresh and insightful book The Malay
Archipelago. A contemporary of Charles Darwin, Wallace independently
and simultaneously developed the theory of evolution,
his ideas were stimulated by what he encountered during his extensive
travels in Indonesia. Wallace is considered the father of biogeography, the
study of the geographical distribution of plants and animals. Although
North Sulawesi is very different today than when Wallace first stepped
ashore, it still holds much of the fascination that captivated naturalists
almost 150 years ago.
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