Balicasag island
Here you see Balicasag island. Tiny, very tiny. I swim around it in about 3 hours.
View Larger Map
It has the best freediving I experienced so far in the Philippines.
Have you ever been inside a school of 500+ fishes, circling all around you?
I’ve edited a small movie of one of my freedives, to give you a taster of such an awesome experience. Enjoy!
Furthermore, there are just tons of fish flirting with you. Dolphins, turtles,… I saw even a Napoleon, a really big fish, protected and seldom to witness.
Here are some pictures for you:
Our boatmen
Dolphins…dozens of them
in the middle of a school of jackfish
Shayne
The dropoff
corals at 15m depth…you see colors are starting to fade and it becomes darkblue
Behind the jackfish along the dropoff
more corals along the dropoff
getting near the ‘black forest’…bottem changes
quick snapshot from our bangka
rowing towards the black forrest…
there we are…
notice the black corals?
second day with ninja Ron
going deep again…
fancorals
under the jackfish
time for a small break…
and woohoo…what do we see here?
My best shot of a turtle so far. It was quite hard to follow her with the strong current…When you swim along with this elegant creature, you forget everything…you’re only left with one big smile underwater.
another fancoral
the feared crown of thorns
pufferfish…puffish…it’s like fish blown up. Very cute.
nemo time
the anemones where clownfish (cfr nemo) stay…you wouldn’t want to touch them…
Here I waved to the scuba divers, they a bit amazed by seeing a guy with no tanks deeper then them…hehe
on the way back we stopped at a virgin island, only 10mins needed to walk around. We encountered some fishermen hunting for huge shelves…containing once pearls…and delicious food
we found other purposes for it…
waiting for the rain to pass by, sitting in the water…no better cover for rain then the sea…Darn, I love this country.
kisses to you all.