Exotic Island Dive Resort would end up being the oldest dive resort about the island and additionally have extended its facilities in 2009 for anyone to add a spa, classrooms, new dive shop and equipment locations without having noticeably changing its character becoming a totally grown PADI 5 Star IDC resort 5 paces from your beach.
Diving along with thresher sharks is among the primary attractions around the island pertaining to diving holidays and starts extremely early within the morning. Whenever you say it loudly 4:30 seems early but when my alarm went off to obtain to the dive centre I had been ready to become in a new position to go. The Particular furthest you could very possibly always be in the dive centre is just regarding all about 45 seconds walk so that it does not take long before the wetsuit will be being pulled on.
As the sun's rays rose your moorings were deserted, various other boats had been about the approach nevertheless the organisation with regard to diving at the shoal appears to be able to ensure it’s not really diver soup below the h2o and the small teams have sufficient viewing areas in order to go, it feels private as well as peaceful. We descend to the deeper viewing area from 28m, visibility seems excellent and also fish swimming around several coral supply neighborhood stimulus, yet it’s your blue I’m staring into, glancing in one other divers and the dive guide expectantly. Initial the glimpse then as the shark circled and also came closer the actual unmistakable shape of a thresher shark emerged, during my first dive I was seeing the actual detail with the shark along with my own, personal eyes, it’s enormous tail thus obvious, but now I are able to end up being able to see it’s whole body, it’s big round eyes as well as it’s shyness, however some thing else, it’s got the style I feel just concerning all sharks get after they feel comfortable using the existence associated with divers, his or even her inquisitiveness can be clear.
We headed as a lot as a shallower location in 23m for a person to continue the particular dive, another thresher shark arrived to view, much clearer, it certainly seemed brighter, the sun was rising and in addition the clarity in the h2o had been obvious, visibility was really good. two sharks in a dive!
Gato Island was an additional surprising dive spot, your sights here included the large amount of soft corals, large boulder features, plus some macro life I hadn’t expected. The Particular swim by implies of ended up being every small thing it promised along with sharks patrolling as silhouettes inside the blue even as swam by indicates of the actual cavern, getting watched any circling white suggestion shark in the facet cave we pushed on to consider inside the smaller sized creatures, nudibranch the particular just like associated with which I’d certainly not seen before, moray eels as well as banded sea snake through into a scorpion fish, not even bothering to hide itself sat as plain as day on a boulder.
Ubang Bato is actually a macro dive, I’ve created a bit of the habit with nudibranch, I think it’s simply because that they sit even now whilst a person attempt to video them, or even no less than slug slow at moving. It’s furthermore their diversity, the truth is them all more than but to see thus many different species in Ubang Bato, it really exhibits your diversity of life over these Malapascua waters. not being left out the moray eel, scorpion fish and some juvenile cat fish place in an appearance, despite poorer visibility this website provides plenty to determine today, it is only able to be superior if the water is actually even clearer.
Malapascua has made fantastic efforts to protect its waters; it shows in the organisation and in the behaviour of the animals. Exotic Island Dive Resort for me personally will end up being the essence regarding exactly what the island is actually most about, education, safe respectful diving practices, excellent meals and amazing company, if you have certainly not been it ought to always be at the best of your current list for your next diving holiday, if you’ve currently been, visit again, above along with beneath the water the particular encounters are usually unforgettable.
