Moalboal's Backpacker Lodge Open!

Directly in the heart of Panagsama Beach, Moalboal's Backpacker Lodge offers beds from 199 Pesos (about 4 US$) upwards. Contact www.moalboal-backpackerlodge.com for more info.

Reef Survey at Sunken Island

The Research and Monitoring Team of Coastal Conservation and Education Foundation (CCE) conducted a ref survey at Sunken Island (Badian, Barangay Lombok). Sunken Island is a marine reserve by municipality of Badian. Only hook and line fishing is allowed. CCE’s dive team consisted of 5 divers plus our dive instructor Dino, who was in charge of dive safety and acted as dive guide. The team conducted 2 dives to 90f / 30m and surveyed fish abundance, diversity and biomass. Aileen Maypa, the Research Coordinator, was impressed by the beauty of the dive spot. Here are the Preliminary Findings: Dominant numerically fish are fusiliers (6 species). Northern and southern side is high density of fusiliers, about 5000 on each side. Coral dominant forms are foliose and encrusting corals.

All in all a fantastic dive spot.
Pictures will follow soon.

New website from Cabana

Cabana Beach Club Resort has a new website with lots of pics and some video of Panagsama Beach and Moalboal. The website gives you also a lot of info on scuba diving in Moalboal. Check it out at www.cabana-cebu.com.

Whale Shark Pics

Stefan, Willi and Ingo send us the latest whale shark pictures from their dive last month. So far, not so many whale sharks this month, but March has been always a month with a lot of whale shark sightings. We keep you updated....

New Years Whale Shark Encounter

It seems the whale sharks want to send us a message for the new year: We are still here, waiting for you, don't give up diving. This pictures are from Chrissie Choo who was diving with her friends on Dec. 30 and had an incredible whale shark encounter in Pescador Island. Here are some of her pics.

Good old days...

Our regular visitors know our dive mastes Dome (Swiss) and Eusel (Filipino) very well. Here is a picture when Dome visited Moalboal in 1982, featuring a much younger Dome and Eusel. I marked the guys otherwise you wouldn't recognize them. The pic was taken at Chief Maui Bar, from where you had a seaview in the good old days...

Christmas Whale Shark

In time for Christmas a whale shark was spotted in the morning on our house reef, just in front of Cabana Beach Club Resort. The place is often visited by whale sharks, we guess its because there is often a very big school of sardines there, accompanied by some hunting mackerels.

Baby Shark in Pescador Island

Our resident white tip sharks in Pescador Island got a baby. The baby, Sharky, as he is called by our divers, is relaxing and spending the better part of the day in the shadow of a big table coral in just 5 meters of water in Pescador Island. We hope he will join mama and papa shark soon and make diving in Pescador even more exciting as it is now.