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An old friend of mine from Waikiki Hawaii Jim B and I went and did some Asia diving in Cebu Philippines and we had a great time I was told that this is some of the best diving in Asia and sort of agree with that. In Moalboal the diving was just OK the deep sights were nice but there really wasn't anything spectacular. we went to Pescador island with the hope of seeing whale sharks and we were disappointed. I spotted a couple of smaller white tips and some barracudas otherwise was not as we expected. the only really cool thing that I saw was a juvenile bat fish that was a treat. I also expected to see more butterfly fish in that regards the diving in Puerto Galara was much better.



Malapasqua Island was very expensive but Gato island was quite good. We were hoping to see the thresher sharks but they were not seen on the two days that we were there. On Gato we had our expectations lower and we were quite impressed with the size of the white tips in the holes and the soft coral. there was allot of other stuff like nudibrachs some nice angel fish and the night dive was wicked with lots of different sea horses pipe fish and a huge cuttlefish that was sitting still for quite a while as we took its photos. The purpose of the night dives was to see the mandarin fish and we were given a great mating display.

Jim and I felt that the hotel prices were way to high in Malapasqua and we did not even have electricity 24 hours and in Moalboal we had a great room for only 1000 p a night and that was air-con hot water and ocean front which would make that a great place to visit just for the cheap beach hotel.




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