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As allways I am drawn towards the photos that I have taken while diving in Asia here is another one that I have just worked with Photoshop. I shot this at Gato Island which was some of the best diving in the Philippines that i have done.

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I have been spending a few weeks in the Philippines after getting hit with a typhoon in Manila I have to say that it has gotten much better.

did some diving Asia style in Cebu by Asia style diving I mean cheap and some was even deep. Saw a few sharks in Cebu 5 white tips on one dive at Malapasqa island and even ran into a divemaster trainie from Ecosea Dive in Cambodia

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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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Asia Diving in Philippines Cebu Moalboal which has been on our list of places to dive in Asia for a while. We were told that this was a good place to see whale sharks which we did not see but we saw alot of other cool stuff like my first juv bat fish which I loved I will stick a youtube video in the next few days of it.

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Getting ready to do some scuba diving in Cebu Philippines, I had dove here in Cebu Bohol off Alona Beach in 2005. We are looking forward to getting to the other parts of this dive destination island.

The first dive area that we are going to go to is Malapascua which is at the top of Cebu. We will be leaving from Cebu City and take a bus up there which should cost us less than 5USD then we will be staying in a resort hotel in Malapascua and we will be paying right around $20 USD for the night for a air-con room with a view of the ocean Not a bad deal for a cheap room in Cebu Philippines.

For the diving they are going to rent us equipment for $6 a day and the dives will be around $25. We are excited as they have lots of pelagic and we expect to see thresher sharks and white tips and they spotted a whale shark in the area this week so we will keep our fingers crossed that we will see one of those huge friendly sharks.


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