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Busuanga: Divesites - Busuanga
: Dimakya Island
The following divesites can be explored when staying at Club Paradise resortDimakya IslandThis island, where Club Paradise is located, is blessed with beautiful reefs within its immediate vicinity. On the west side of the island, right in front of the lounge is a reef with a beautiful coral garden. The reef features soft and hard corals in an explosion of colors, amazingly tamed reef fish, and untold surprises. Right in the middle of this confusion of color is a clearing with white sand at 3 meters (10 feet) of water. This is the site called the classroom, indeed a very ideal place to teach scuba.On the steep slope, which runs down to 17 meters (about 55 feet), there are alot of sponges, Tunicates and sea squirts, garupas, parrot fish and the occasional family of bumpheads. On the far end of the reef exists an extensive garden of staghorn corals populated by rainbow runners, a school of barracuda and goat fish. A special treat awaits the diver at a small nook at 13 meters (about 40 feet) near the classroom - the chance to see a rare giant clam, Triadacna Gigas, measuring around one meter (about 3 feet). On the north side of the island is a gently sloping reef. The corals are not as colorful as in the classroom but the chances of seeing mantas, eagle rays, and marine turtles are greater in this area, as well as lobsters and a great assortment of reef fish call this home. The northeast end of the island
features a small place that has quite a number of Porites(hump corals),
some of them as big as a small one bedroom house. The place is a good spot
for macrophotography(nudibranchs, crinoids, slugs, and other various invertebrates
proliferate in this reef.)
CrossingThis reef is a natural submerged bridge between Dimakya Island and Islang Walang Langaw. The reef is about 2 to 3 kilometers long(about a mile). This reef can account for three to four dive spots and each spot can be a different experience for the diver. The main distinguishing characteristic of this spot is that it is literally overrun with Acropora(table top and other branching corals.) A huge green sea turtle is occasionally seen in this area. The top of the reef is at 18 meters (about 60 feet).Isla Walang LangawSouthThe name, literally translated into English means ISLAND WITH NO TREES, is located on the east side of Club Paradise, just ten minutes away by boat. The reef consists of extensive hump coral formations on a shallow, gently sloping terrain. The reef starts at 3 meters(10 feet) and ends at around 25 meters(80 feet). White and black tip sharks are regularly seen, with an occasional sighting of mantas and eagle rays.EastOn the back side of the island, the side facing away from the Club, there is a good opportunity for macrophotography. The place is inhabited by innumerable species of nudibranch, small reef fish, moray eels, and lots of coral. There have also been occasional sightings of a school of large eagle rays measuring from 1.5(4 feet) to 2 meters (6 feet). Marine turtles also inhabit this area since the island is a nesting area.Islang Walang TaoNorthThis short but beautiful reef can be reached by a 15 minute boat ride from the resort. This island's name in English is THE ISLAND WITHOUT PEOPLE. The reef gently slopes down to 18 meters (60 feet), is home to one long black tip shark and on occasions, 2 meter (7 foot) nurse sharks patrolling the area. The elephant ear sponges here are large and so are the cabbage corals. Plenty of small reef fish inhabit the area, not to mention one or 2 medium sized napoleon wrasses and an occasional school of large bumpheads. There are also sightings here of 6 large eagle rays, probably the same school that hangs around Islang Walang Langaw, which is only 2 kilometers(less than a mile) away from this dive spot.SouthOn the other side of the island is a reef that is mainly flat. On some points, the reef slopes on a ten to twenty degree angle. In one particular point, ledges can be seen, a natural stairway; and white tip reef sharks have been spotted in this area. There are large formations of the dangerous but beautiful fire corals. This side of the island faces the open sea and as such chances of seeing pelagic fishes are greater.Barry's ReefThis elongated submerged reef is located in a large cove that is about 20 minutes away from the Club. The top of the reef is at 3 to 4 meters ( 12 feet) and the slope sharply drops to 27 meters (90 feet). There are plenty of macro subjects on this reef. Spanish dancers, juvenile spotted sweetlips, large anemones with african, common and pink shunk clown fish communally lived with blue banded anemone shrimps. In about 18 meters (60 feet), there is one large cabbage coral approximately 2.5 meters (8 feet) in dimater and at 25 meters(80 feet), thers lives an acropora whose diameter is roughly 2.3 meters (about 8 feet). The formation of smal to medium sized Porites is unusual in that they form some sort of a big stairway.
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