Our trip to Peurto Galera, Philipines, December 2010 |
My appreciation as always to my lovely wife Janet, without whom these photos would not be here. | |
All underwater shots on this page taken with Nikon D300 and 60mm micro Nikkor in Ikelite housing and twin DS125 strobes. | |
This page was updated on 22 October 2014 |
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We flew into Manilla and met
our driver at the airport, Its a long drive south to Batangas City,
about 2.5 to 3hrs and then a boat ride of about an hour to Peurto Galera.
We arrived at night and the bay was all lit up by the lights from the
Restaurants, it was a pleasant sight. |
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We had arranged our accomodation and diving with Rick from FRONTIER SCUBA, his dive centre was right on Sabang Bay, Rick is a specialist dive trainer, he trains military personel etc. The regime at the dive centre is fairly laid back, we were told the boat leaves at 9am but as punctual as we were we allways had to wait around for someone who was late. The dive guides were friendly and pretty good at finding things you wanted to photograph, sadly there were very few Nudibranch's, we found that very strange. I think we only found two species that we had not seen before. |
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Sabang Bay is a short Jeepny ride from Peurto Galera, probably half a mile as the crow flies and reached by a narrow hilly road that twists and turns. When you get there it is not what we expected, we were expecting a cosmopolitan town, it is at best a very run down and poor place with a main street of about 100yds. We only visited once. |
There is only one road into Sabang Bay, it stops on the outskirts on the east side of the village and all travel into the miriad of little passages and alleys that make up Sabang Bay is done on foot. There are little shops, dive centres, bars and restaurants everywhere. |
We had come here to look for Nudibranch's, we thought we would find what we had found in Anilao, more than we could count. But we were wrong. We were struggling to find any at all on some dives, it may look like there were plenty of critters to photograph but it was hard work trying to find them. The diving here for us became very boring and some days we simply did'nt bother to dive at all. |
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Nudibranch's of Peurto Galera | ||
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