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Tips 1 - 4 of 4 Malapascua Island Things to Do
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Things To Do: Thresher Sharks Sighting
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Thresher shark sighting is really the reason for the island. I mean nobody will want to visit a small island 3 hours road journey that cost between USD40-60 one way transfer unless you use local bus transportation (longer hours, but very cheap). Further more, its closest competition is a beautiful Bantayan island.
How lucky can one be if you sighted the thresher sharks on you very first dive after 2 months diving break? I do have the privilege to do so, only because i switch dive shop last minute and dive with Malapascua Exotic Island Dive and Beach Resort who runs the first dive shop on the island.
I have "warning" tips on which dive shop you must not dive with, do click into that.
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Things To Do: Shaggadelic Mandarinfishes @Light House
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Synchiropus splendidus or commonly known as mandarinfish is probably one of the most beautiful fishes in the world. Unfortunately, the extreme beauty also end them to be the most preferred aquarium fishes and lots of illegal harvesting of mandarinfishes worldwide to fill in the great demand of the fish.
For that reason, i am not going to disclose full details (where, when, how) on sighting of the fish. All i can tell you is i saw them and they are extremely beautiful. Its now for you to travel to Malapascua to spot the mandarinfishes in their natural habitats and i do hope that you'll appreciate existence of such beautiful fish and do not purchase one from your nearest aquarium. Just let them be in they natural habitats.
Mandarinfishes have they right to be beautiful and live in their natural habitats, we have no right to rob their freedom and kept them in the tank/aquarium.
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Things To Do: Whitetip Reef Shark@ Gato Island
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Gato Island is one place you can see big, fat, lazy whitetip reef sharks shelter in the caves or beneath rocks and couldn't care less if you keep taking photos of them. My two dives at Gato Island on both directions starting from the big cave are rewarded with many big, fat whitetip, nudibranches, frogfish and of cause array for soft/hard corals and countless anemone fishes.
We read about dynamite fishing around Maya/Malapascua area and we actually heard the big blasts twice and some of us thought that our tanks go busted or equipments failed. We were panic for short minute (we think slower underwater) before we concluded that was a dynamite fishing blast. Well, at 23 meters level you really don't want to have your dive gears fail on you alright.
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Directions: 50-minutes boat ride from Malapascua
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Things To Do: Also Featuring.....
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I only covered 3 dive sites during my stay at Malapascua Island. Beside the thresher sharks at Monad Shoal and whitetips at Gato, we also see mantis shrimp, painted anglerfish (Antennarius pictus), scorpion fishes, seahorses, cuttlefish and many more.
We also get to see some beautiful seafans and sea squirts and they are actually some of the best photographic subjects. As for the lionfishes and anemone fishes, we almost overdosed of all that.
Warning: Mantis shrimps may appear to be very shy, in actual fact they are very aggressive large crustaceans.
Called "sea locusts" by ancient Assyrians, and now sometimes referred to as "thumb splitters" by modern divers - because of the relative ease the creature has in mutilating small appendages - mantis shrimp sport powerful claws, formed like jackknives, that they use to attack and kill prey by spearing, stunning or dismemberment. Some pet mantis shrimp have managed to break through their double-paned aquarium glass with a single strike from this weapon. (fact from Wikipedia)
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Thank you for sharing Malapascua. Great tips! | moonlighting Mon Mar 31, 2008 10:52 UTC
Where is it written that you're based in MAlapascua????? | asianbelle Wed Jan 9, 2008 03:45 UTC
hey did i read it right? you are now based in malapascua? |
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