Jakare Liveaboard

Day 1 – Sorong – Mansuar
Arrival at Sorong, pick up the Guests at airport or Hotel early morning. On-boarding Jakaré in the port of Sorong. Sailing to Pulau Waigeo to Waisai for boat clearance (40NM – 7h). Discovery of nearby beaches, snorkelling or check dive and possibly head for nearby Yanbuba village if time allow.

Day 2 – Mansuar
Whether spent overnight in Yanbuba or heading early morning there, discover Yanbuba village, amazing snorkelling/diving sites and beaches, enjoy kayak and stand up paddle activities. Then sail to Cape Kri amazing diving/snorkelling site and to nearby Saunderek village for a village walk and snorkelling/diving activities.

Sail to Pulau Wayag Overnight.

Day 3 – Wayag
Arrive at down at magic Pulau Wayag. The day is spent in trekking and discovery of Wayag inner lagoon and its pristine white-sandy beaches with kayaks, paddles or speed boats. Wayag lagoon includes also beautiful snorkelling/Diving spots where manta rays, giant clams and many other coral life can be observed. Overnight at Pulau Wayag or option sail to Aljui bay in the afternoon and overnight in Aljui bay.

Day 4 – Wofoh
Sail from Wayag to Pulau Wofoh (36NM – 6h) with a stop-over at Kawe for diving/snorkeling. Arrive in the afternoon at Pulau Wofoh, one of our preferred place in Raja Ampat offering excellent snorkelling, beaches and very nice and easy diving. Overnight in Pulau Wofoh.

Day 5 – Wofoh
Enjoy Wofoh in the morning then sail to Pulau Yangaffo and its pristine mangroves (36NM – 3h30).

Yangaffo offers excellent snorkelling and diving. You may also explore the mangrove with the Kayaks.

Overnight at Pulau Wofoh.

Day 6 – Yanggefo – Arborek and Friwen
After an early snorkelling/diving session sail to nearby Pulau Arborek for a visit of the village and possibly dive and snorkel with the manta rays. Then sail in the evening to Pulau Friwen (14NM – 2h30).

Overnight in Pulau Friwen.

Day 7 – Friwen and Mioskon
The day is spent in and around Pulau Friwen and Pulau Mioskon with Trekking activities in the early morning (search for the endemic bird of paradise), village, beaches and snorkelling activities. There are also some exceptional dive sites, like blue magic or Mioskon Reef closed to Pulau Mioskon.

In the end of the afternoon, the crew will prepare the beach BBQ at Friwen Beach. After the BBQ and during the night, the boat with sail back to Sorong.

Day 8 – Sail & Back to Sorong
Sail in the night to Sorong and arrive in Sorong in the morning. The Guest get then ready for the end of the Cruise, take lunch and leave Jakare early afternoon to suits their travel arrangement.

Day 1 to Day 5: Misool Area
Arrival at Sorong, pick up Group at airport Flight TBA. On-boarding and departure expected around 10am after boat clearance.

Welcomed drinks and snacks are served while Cruise Director briefs the guests on the safety, onboard organization, overall itinerary and presents the crew.

Guests are then shown their cabins to settle in, refresh and get ready for the start of the Cruise.

Jakare sails to Pulau Misool southward, stops on the way to perform the check dive in the afternoon, reach Misool in the night/ next morning.

Note: As the diving in Misool area may requires coordination with the local authorities and hotels, we will only list below the main destinations and dives. A specific itinerary will be submitted prior the Cruise after coordination with the Authorities at the time of the Cruise.
Misool Boo Area In the Boo area, we will dive Boo Window, a reference dive site with extraordinary tunnels or openings piercing the rock from the surface to underwater below.

We will dive also Magic Mountain and Yiliet Kecil, both sites knowns for their huge gorgonian sea fans and lots of reef fishes and sea life including turtles, reef sharks and barracudas and even some mantas if we are lucky.

Misool Fiabecet
In the Fiabecet area, we will dive a well known and famous Fiabacet Ridge where pelagic fishes and turtles can be seen. This site offers great underwater ridges connecting Tank Rock and Nudi Rock
sites.

Fiabacet Pinnacle and Whale Rock offer great soft corals and are rich in healthy fish life including small creatures like seahorse Barbiganti and Denise pygmy.

Misool Wayil Area
We will dive in the breath-taking Neptune Fan Sea channel and its profusion of big gorgonians sea fans. We will also dive Four King where a very healthy fish life (both pelagic and coral fishes) can be observed in a very specific underwater topography made of four pinnacles.

Misool Pele
Pele’s Playground, the most westerly site of the Waaf’s island group delivers often a spectacle with schools of anchovies and pelagic predators. Kaleidoscope, on Pele North West side, is well known for its black coral and multi colors soft corals and gorgonian fans. Manta rays have ben spotted in this area where again very healthy fish live can be observed in shallow and deeper parts.

Misool Balbulol
Balbulol offers not only excellent diving sites but also amazing landscape above water with crystal clear water, limestone mounts and small hidden lagoons. The dive sites include Baby Rock, Balbulol Corner and many others. Drop off, canyon, pinnacle and a healthy fish life with beautiful hard and soft corals in shallow waters.

Guest may enjoy discovery of the surrounding with Kayaks and SUP as well as superb snorkeling.

Jakare leaves for Central Raja Ampat around 6pm for a sailing

overnight toward Pienemu.

Day 6 – Penemu & Yangaffo
The south anchorage of Pienemu is reached just on time for the first morning dive at Keruo Channel.

Keruo Channel, an easy wall drift dive with wall slopes covered in beautiful and untouched soft and hard corals. There are many different crabs, sea spiders, clams, shrimps, and sea urchins amongst the corals as well as many varieties of reef fish with schools of barracudas, snappers…etc.

Melissa Garden is a current dive. Made of fantastic pinnacles covered in soft corals and anemones of all different colours. The pinnacle is home to large schools of fusiliers, jack fish, and batfish. Giant trevallies are also spotted here along with snappers and rainbow runners. In the shallower parts, there will be larger groups of sweetlips and lionfish, as well as many other reef fish of the area.

After Lunch, Jakare moves north to an-other anchorage close to the lagoon entrance. A walk on top of one limestone mount is organized for the guests to discover the breath-taking scenery of Pienemu limestones islands. The ascent is usually followed by a refreshing swimming session in the lagoon.

Alternatively, an other dive can be organised at My Reef in Pienamu.

Jakare then leaves end afternoon Pienemu to Pulau Yangaffo (12NM) where a night dive can be organised. The anchorage is located in a beautiful and peaceful mangrove area where undisturbed nature can be observed from the Jakare or while kayaking and paddling

Day 7 Arborek & Manta Ridge
Wake up with the sound of the white kakatoes and discover the inner mangrove with the kayaks taking our secret passages at Pulau Yangaffo. Alternatively, an early morning dive can be organised as there are few very nice dive spots around (Including Mangrove ridge and Citrus Ridge).

Breakfast is then served on the way to nearby Pulau Arborek being reach in the morning. Jakare anchors just in the front of the island.

Arborek has a lot to offers and caters for every taste: diving, snorkelling, beach and village walk.

Dive Arborek Jetty: easy and beautiful dive, starting or finishing at the jetty depending on the current. Giant clams can be found just in front of the jetty. Beautiful soft and hard coral garden with school of fusiliers, groupers and silver trevally encountered even below the Jetty.

After diving at the jetty and visits of the beautiful and dynamic Pulau Arborek, Jakare sails toward the Manta Sandy or Manta Ridge (1NM) and stations there for next dive.

Dive Manta Cleaning station. A good opportunity to watch gracious reef mantas being cleaned in less than 12 meters of waters.

After the dive, Jakare will cruise Eastward toward the nearby village of Yanbuba for night dive or snorkelling and beach or just relax. Anchoring and overnight at Yanbuba.

Day 8 Yanbuba, Blue Magic and Friwen
Dive at Yanbuba Jetty: easy and nice dive very rewarding with turtles, schools of barracudas, snappers, trivalis, sharks and very nice corals (amazing staghorn and cabbage corals).

Then sail toward Mioskon and Dive Blue Magic and/or Sardines Reef.

Both locations are non emergent pinnacles located in the north west of the Dampier Straight and offer current dives on dynamic reefs facing directly the current. The all food chain is on open display there, from reef fishes feeding on rich waters full of nutrients to big pelagic including sometime Mantas Rays.

After the last dive, Jakare will sail to Friwen anchorage, located between Friwen and Waigeo. This location gives access to multiple activities, including swimming, amazing beaches, superb snorkelling
and village discovery.

Just stay on board and relax or discover Friwen and its surrounding with Kayaks and SUP or using the dinghies.

In the end afternoon, the crew prepares the beach BBQ.

Guest get back to the Jakare in the evening after the beach BBQ.

Day 9 Back to Sorong
Sail in the night to Sorong and arrive Sorong latest at 11:30am.

Leave Jakare latest at 1:00 pm to Airport. Flights details TBA.

Day 1 to Day 6: Misool Area
Arrival at Sorong, pick up Group at airport Flight TBA. On-boarding and departure expected around 10am after boat clearance.

Welcomed drinks and snacks are served while Cruise Director briefs the guests on the safety, onboard organization, overall itinerary and presents the crew.

Guests are then shown their cabins to settle in, refresh and get ready for the start of the Cruise.

Jakare sails to Pulau Misool southward, stops on the way to perform the check dive in the afternoon, reach Misool in the night/ next morning.

Note: As the diving in Misool area may requires coordination with the local authorities and hotels, we will only list below the main destinations and dives. A specific itinerary will be submitted prior the Cruise after coordination with the Authorities at the time of the Cruise.

Misool Boo Area
In the Boo area, we will dive Boo Window, a reference dive site with extraordinary tunnels or openings piercing the rock from the surface to underwater below.

We will dive also Bo West, Magic Mountain and/or Yiliet Kecil, both sites knowns for their huge gorgonian sea fans and lots of reef fishes and sea life including turtles, reef sharks and barracudas and even some mantas if we are lucky.

Misool Fiabecet
In the Fiabecet area, we will dive a well known and famous Fiabacet Ridge where pelagic fishes and turtles can be seen. This site offers great underwater ridges connecting Tank Rock and Nudi Rock sites. Fiabacet Pinnacle and Whale Rock offer great soft corals and are rich in healthy fish life including small creatures like seahorse Barbiganti and Denise pygmy.

Misool Wayil Area
We will dive in the breath-taking Neptune Fan Sea channel and its profusion of big gorgonians sea fans. We will also dive Four King where a very healthy fish life (both pelagic and coral fishes) can be observed in a very specific underwater topography made of four pinnacles. Other nice dive sites include Barracuda point, wedding cake and dunia Kecil.

Misool Pele
Pele’s Playground, the most westerly site of the Waaf’s island group delivers often a spectacle with schools of anchovies and pelagic predators. Kaleidoscope, on Pele North West side, is well known for its black coral and multi colors soft corals and gorgonian fans. Manta rays have ben spotted in this area where again very healthy fish live can be observed in shallow and deeper parts.

Misool Balbulol and Farondi
Balbulol offers not only excellent diving sites but also amazing landscape above water with crystal clear water, limestone mounts and small hidden lagoons. The dive sites include Baby Rock, Balbulol Corner, Balbulol plateau and many others. Drop off, canyon, pinnacle and a healthy fish life with beautiful hard and soft corals in shallow waters.

Guest may enjoy discovery of the surrounding with Kayaks and SUP as well as superb snorkelling.

Farondi dives include Long Island and 3 rocks which offers great underwater seascape, good corals and profuse sea life.

Jakare leaves for Central Raja Ampat around 6pm for a sailing overnight toward Pienemu.

Day 7 – Pienemu & Yangaffo
The south anchorage of Pienemu is reached just on time for the first morning dive at Keruo Channel.

Keruo Channel, an easy wall drift dive with wall slopes covered in beautiful and untouched soft and hard corals. There are many different crabs, sea spiders, clams, shrimps, and sea urchins amongst the corals as well as many varieties of reef fish with schools of barracudas, snappers…etc.

Melissa Garden is a current dive. Made of fantastic pinnacles covered in soft corals and anemones of all different colours. The pinnacle is home to large schools of fusiliers, jack fish, and batfish. Giant trevallies are also spotted here along with snappers and rainbow runners. In the shallower parts, there will be larger groups of sweetlips and lionfish, as well as many other reef fish of the area.

After Lunch, Jakare moves north to an-other anchorage close to the lagoon entrance. A walk on top of one limestone mount is organized for the guests to discover the breath-taking scenery of Pienemu limestones islands. The ascent is usually followed by a refreshing swimming session in the lagoon.

Alternatively, an other dive can be organised at My Reef in Pienamu.

Jakare then leaves end afternoon Pienemu to Pulau Yangaffo (12NM) where a night dive can be organised. The anchorage is located in a beautiful and peaceful mangrove area where undisturbed nature can be observed from the Jakare or while kayaking and paddling

Day 8 Arborek & Manta Ridge
Wake up early with the sound of the white kakatoes and dive Citrus Ridge and/or Mayhem.

Breakfast is then served on the way to nearby Pulau Arborek being reach in the morning. Jakare anchors just in the front of the island.

Arborek has a lot to offers and caters for every taste: diving, snorkeling, beach and village walk.

Dive Arborek Jetty: easy and beautiful dive, starting or finishing at the jetty depending on the current. Giant clams can be found just in front of the jetty. Beautiful soft and hard coral garden with school of fusiliers, groupers and silver trevally encountered even below the Jetty.

After diving at the jetty and visits of the beautiful and dynamic Pulau Arborek, Jakare sails toward the Manta Sandy or Manta Ridge (1NM) and stations there for next dive.

Dive Manta Cleaning station. A good opportunity to watch gracious reef mantas being cleaned in less than 12 meters of waters.

After the dive, Jakare will cruise Eastward toward the nearby village of Yanbuba for night dive or snorkelling and beach or just relax.

Anchoring and overnight at Yanbuba.

Day 9 Yanbuba, Blue Magic and Friwen
Dive at Yanbuba Jetty: easy and nice dive very rewarding with turtles, schools of barracudas, snappers, trivalis, sharks and very nice corals (amazing staghorn and cabbage corals).

Then sail toward Mioskon and Dive Blue Magic and/or Sardines Reef.

Both locations are non emergent pinnacles located in the north west of the Dampier Straight and offer current dives on dynamic reefs facing directly the current. The all food chain is on open display there, from reef fishes feeding on rich waters full of nutrients to big pelagic including sometime Mantas Rays.

After the last dive, Jakare will sail to Friwen anchorage, located between Friwen and Waigeo. This location gives access to multiple activities, including swimming, amazing beaches, superb snorkelling and village discovery.

Just stay on board and relax or discover Friwen and its surrounding with Kayaks and SUP or using the dinghies.

In the end afternoon, the crew prepares the beach BBQ.

Guest get back to the Jakare in the evening after the beach BBQ.

Day 10 Back to Sorong
Sail in the night to Sorong and arrive Sorong latest at 10am.

Leave Jakare latest at 1:00 pm to Airport. Flights details TBA.

Day one – Arrival in Sorong and Waisai
Guests will be picked up at the airport or their hotel in Sorong and then will board Jakare in the Harbour of Sorong. Welcomed drinks and snacks will be served while Cruise Director will brief the guests on the safety, onboard organization, overall itinerary. Guests will then be shown their cabins to settle in, take shower and get ready for the start of the Cruise.

Jakaré will sail North toward Pulau Waigeo, approximately 40NM. This sailing time is usually a good time for resting and briefing on the activities including scuba-diving. A check/discovery dive and snorkeling session will be organised at Saonek Kecil.

Overnight: anchorage in Waisai or Friwen village

Day 2 – Dampier Strait
Dive or snorkel at Pulau Mioskon, Blue Magic and beautiful cape Kri. Mioskon reef is a beautiful snorkelling site and an easy dive site. Schools of Yellow Snapper, Napoleon Wrasse, trevallies, big groupers and many wobbegong sharks can be found in Mioskon. Pigmy seahorses, different species of nudibranch can be seen as well.

The Famous Blue Magic is a non-emergent pinnacle located in the north west of the Dampier Straight and offer current dives on dynamic reefs facing directly the current. The all food chain is on open display there, from reef fishes feeding on rich waters full of nutrients to big pelagic including sometime Mantas Rays. Schools of yellow fins barracudas, yellow snappers, silver trevally are very common as well as dogtooth tunas, giant trevally and black tip and white tip sharks

Cape Kri: a unique snorkelling and diving site. Schools of yellow sweet lips and silver trivalis, Dogtooth tunas, mackerels and Barracudas can be observed as well as reef sharks. It has been recorded 374 different species in the area which became a world famous dive site for its huge numbers of diversity. It is a steep slope with a vast garden of colourful hard and soft corals.

Sail to nearby Saunderek for snorkelling and village discovery / beach in the late afternoon. Saunderek Jetty is famous for schools of big fishes and giant clams right at the jetty. It is an easy snorkelling site with lots of healthy coral and abundant marine live.

Then sail overnight to Pulau Wayag.

Day 3 – Wayag and Kawe
Wake up and Ascent Mt Pindito early morning and then dive or discover Wayag inner lagoon and its pristine white-sandy beaches with kayaks, paddles or speed boats. Wayag lagoon includes beautiful snorkelling and diving spots where giant clams and many other coral life can be observed.

Divers will dive at Batu Seven and a secret dive spot in Pulau Wayag where we often encounter mantas rays, giant clamp shells, coral gardens, and so many others.

Then by midday Sail to Kawe West (Eagle Rock or Black Rock). Both snorkellers and divers will share the same spots: Black Rock or Eagle Rock which are both considered as currents snorkelling and diving spots.

Black Rock is well known for its wonderful soft coral gardens, profuse fish life (sharks, Napoleon and other can be observed) and its fields of ancient black coral bushes.

Eagle Rock where you are likely to spot mantas using the many cleaning stations or feeding on the surface in the channel between two of the islands. In a labyrinth of gigantic boulders covered with an array of citrus colored soft coral, wobbegong sharks like to hide.

Jakare will then further continue south to Pulau Wofoh. Arrival early evening, anchoring and overnight at Pulau Wofoh.

Day 4 – Wofoh
Wake up in beautiful Pulau Wofoh. From the Jakare anchored close to the island, guests can discover Wofoh pristine beaches in the south and north parts using kayaks or paddle. The snorkelling is just amazing there with unspoiled hard and soft coral gardens.

Easy diving will be proposed for the divers in the south part of the island, on a beautiful wall and sandy valley surrounded by amazing soft and hard corals. School of trevallies, blue and yellow fusiles, turtles are usually encountered.

By Midday sail to Pulau Yeben. Enjoy the beach, snorkel, dive and get ready for a beach BBQ.

Day 5 – Pulau Pienemu
Jakare will sail early morning to Pulau Pienemu. On our way to the dive sites, we will stop at central Pienemu for a Lagoon walk on top of a limestone mount and refreshing swims.

Then Jakare will continue further southward toward the dive sites Keruo Chanel and the enchanting Melissa Garden.

Keruo Channel is an easy wall drift snorkelling and dive location with wall slopes covered in beautiful and untouched soft and hard corals. There are many different crabs, sea spiders, clams, shrimps, and sea urchins amongst the corals as well as many varieties of reef fish with schools of barracudas, snappers…etc.

After Keruo Chanel, beach/snorkel and a second dive will be proposed at Melissa Garden.

Melissa Garden is a current dive. Made of fantastic pinnacles covered in soft corals and anemones of all different colours. The pinnacle is home to large schools of fusiliers, jack fish, and batfish. Giant trevallies are also spotted here along with snappers, and rainbow runners. In the shallower parts, there will be larger groups of sweetlips and lionfish, as well as many other reef fish of the area.

Alternatively or in addition we will propose dive at My Reef or Blue Window.

Then after the dive / snorkelling, we will continue sailing southward overnight to Misool.

Day 6 to day 11 – Misool / south Raja Ampat
We will arrive by morning in the Balbulol Area and will start the discovery of underwater and above water wonders in coordination with the local authorities and hotels. Hence the locations and dive sites below may be explored in a different sequence depending on the situation at the time of the cruise.

Misool Balbulol and Farondi Area
Balbulol offers not only excellent diving sites but also amazing landscape above water with crystal clear water, limestone mounts and small hidden lagoons. The dive sites include Baby Rock, Balbulol Corner, Balbulol plateau and many others. Drop off, canyon, pinnacle and a healthy fish life with beautiful hard and soft corals in shallow waters.

Guest may enjoy discovery of the surrounding with Kayaks and SUP as well as superb snorkelling.

Farondi dives include Long Island and 3 rocks which offers great underwater seascape, good corals and profuse sea life.

Overnight on anchorage in Balbulol area.

Misool Boo Area
In the Boo area, we will dive Boo Window, a reference dive site with extraordinary tunnels or openings piercing the rock from the surface to underwater below. Other dive sites include Bo West, Magic Mountain and/or Yiliet Kecil, both sites knowns for their huge gorgonian sea fans and lots of reef fishes and sea life including turtles, reef sharks and barracudas and even some mantas if we are lucky.

Boo, like other locations, offer beautiful snorkelling and kayaking area to discover above and underwater exceptional sites.

The anchorage around the Pulau Yiliet not far from the Rangers Station and beach is one of our preferred overnight location, to rest on the white sand beach or play in the sheltered and warm waters with the numerous baby sharks from the nursery.

Misool Fiabecet Area
In the Fiabecet area, the famous Fiabacet Ridge offers amazing dive and snorkelling sites where pelagic fishes and turtles can be seen. This site offers great underwater ridges connecting Tank Rock and Nudi Rock sites. Fiabacet Pinnacle and Whale Rock offer great soft corals and are rich in healthy fish life including small creatures like seahorse Barbiganti and Denise pygmy.

Misool Wayil Area
Wayil and its lagoon with beaches and blue water surrounded by karstic mounts and tropical vegetation has a lot to offer. Dive sites include the breath-taking Neptune Fan Sea channel and its profusion of big gorgonians sea fans, the famous Four King where a very healthy fish life (both pelagic and coral fishes) can be observed in a very specific underwater topography made of four pinnacles. Other nice dive and snorkelling sites include Barracuda point, wedding cake and dunia Kecil around the Pulau Wayil.

Wayil anchorage is usually quiet and well protected.

Misool Pele Area
Pele’s Playground, the most westerly site of the Waaf’s island group delivers often a spectacle with schools of anchovies and pelagic predators. Kaleidoscope, on Pele North West side, is well known for its black coral and multi colors soft corals and gorgonian fans. Manta rays have been spotted in this area where again very healthy fish live can be observed in shallow and deeper parts.

Misool Daram Area
At the extreme East of Misool lays the Daram Island with superb dive and snorkeling sites including Andy’s Ultimate, Candy Store and Mary’s pinnacle.

We will depart early afternoon from our last location to Sorong for an overnight sail thru the Selat Sele bypass.

DAY 12 – Sorong and check out
The last day will be dedicated to travel back to Sorong (mainly overnight) and get ready for the end of the cruise. Filling the diving log books, stamping the logbook by the Diving Instructor / dive master and exchanging addresses and photos from the wonderful time spent together.

A small ceremony will be organized on board the Jakare before leaving the boat to the airport or hotel.