Diving in Philippines

It's been nearly a year since I blogged. So I'm gonna just talk about our diving trip to Moalboal in Cebu.

Upon arrival, we were introduced to a world of honking, more honking and super duper honking on the roads. We realised that the sound was not used as a 'Middle Finger' to other drivers and riders but to alert others that "I'm coming by your side and better give way or else *%@#!". Well, we survived the 3+ hours drive afterwhich we were ushered to the dive shop upon arrival at the Savedra. It was a world that we have not experienced being in it before as it was simple. Shopping malls, forget about it because all you see there are dive shops, beach resorts, bars and restaurants to cater to the tourism.

After checking into our room at Cabana, we headed to where our stomachs were commanding us. Can't remember what we had but it was a 'solid' meal since our previous meal on the plane. The following days were filled with diving, combing the seafront village for meals other than the 'paid-for meals'. Meals were better when eating at other restaurants serving local delights and Japanese food. 'Paid-for meals' at the usual restaurant were either Americano or something else for breakfast, lunch and dinner were rotated within a set of 9 defaulted main courses. Can you imagine that we had to................let's not talk about THAT experience.

Diving was great for the first two to three days then boredom started setting in as our DM seemed to like a particular island called Cocomo, no lah, it's called Pescador. We hinted that it's enough as the marine life over there seem to be getting familiar with us. Wall diving is what you will get over in Moalboal however the night dives were never disappointing. An array of crabs in a single night dive can never compare with all my previous trips added together. My dive log is the window to the experience.

We planned our days with shopping in Cebu and a day of adventure in between dive days. We didn't want a buildup of nitrogen in our blood vessels man!!!! We visited a Catholic ground there and chanced upon Magellan's cross, it states that the cross he carried onto land and planted it on 15 April 1521 is encased in the cross you see in the picture. We made our way to the mall after viewing the street life and the mall is huge, we were lost at one point of time.

Next best thing to diving was Canyoning where we traversed rapids and abseil to a point where we just have to allow the rope to run through our Krabs and Fig 8 descenders, boy was it heart pumping. Seeing the children getting thrilled by jumping off from their seacrafts into the sea allowed me to taste the simplicity of their lives. Back flips, side flips, head in, running from one end of the craft to the other before showing us a spectacular dive says it all.

Lastly, our departure was delayed by4 hours as a 'wonder what was going in the brain' parent threw a soiled diaper into the toilet bowl. Can you imagine when all passengers in the plane was restricted to 1 toilet instead of 4. I WONDER HOW AND I WONDER WHY.