Our check dive was a nice easy dive just 6 minutes boat ride from the resort at Dungon Wall. Here we found beautiful hard and soft corals lying on a sloping reef starting at around 12 metres and dropping to about 25 metres. The wall was covered with an assortment of nudibranchs, moray eels, frogfish, lionfish and much more. The colourful and vibrant anemonies were inhabited not only by anemone fish but also by poreclain crabs. Our Steve also spotted the pygmy seahorses here and oh boy you should have seen his excitement!
Dive 2 took us to Ernie’s Point, a small cavern at 21 meters adorned with sea fans. This is where “Ernie the grouper” once lived but moved out many years ago, however the caverns are still often visited by smaller groupers. Here you can also find schools of trevally as well as mackerel.
Dive 3 was at Sabang Point just a few minutes boat ride from the resort, the pristine hard corals awashed with colour covers the entire reef from the shallows down to 25 meters. The big purple sea fans and whip corals were amazing and the reef is peppered with reef fish such as parrotfish, snappers, surgeonfish, triggerfish and cuttlefish.
For me the diving was over for the day as I wanted to relax a bit and try the spa services at the resort. While some of the keen divers in the group went out for dive number 4, I indulged myself with a deep tissue massage which was just what the body needed after the travel journey.
