Cabilao Diving Guide
Cabilao Island has some of the best dive sites in the Philippines and offers a exciting dives for the more experienced. Cabilao Island is south west of Pangangan Island across the Bohol Strait. A small island of Loon, Bohol, it is 1 hour 20 minutes boat ride by banca from Mactan Island, Cebu. Diving in the area is centered in front of an old lighthouse.
1. Housereef is a wall dropping down to 50 meters completely covered with beautiful hard and soft corals where the scorpion fish, tunas, jackfish, barracudas, frogfish and nudibranches are seen.
2. Shark's Point is a plateau with a depth of 22 to 34 meters and home to the pygmy and the thorny seahorses with occasional sightings of the white- and black-tipped reef shark, napoleons, barracudas and jackfish.
3. Lighthouse is located next to Shark's Point. It is a slope covered with sea grass and corals and sighted are Pegasus, seahorse ghost pipefish, harlequin ghost pipefish, stone fish, devil fish and leaf fish.
4. Fallen Tree is a wall dropping down to 60 meters and more, richly covered with gorgonian sea fans and black corals and home to barracudas, turtles, frogfishes and nudibranches.
5. Looc is a wall dropping down to 70 meters and ends into a sandy plateau where a variety of hard and soft corals abide. It is the habitat of innumerable microorganisms like shrimps, snails and numerous fish schools.
6. Cambaquiz is a wall dropping down to 90 meters which has a large overhang and many caves where baby sharks rest during the day.
7. Santa Cruz is a wall dropping off to 40 meters and found at the eastside of Cabilao Island where sea needles, ghost pipefish, harlequin ghost pipefish, shrimps and snails reside.
8. South Point is a wall dropping down 35 meters and one of the most beautiful dive sites in the Visayas where a fascinating coral garden with table-like coral formations is found.
9. Coconut is a wall dropping down to 50 meters where sea gorgonian fans and black corals are seen. Large schools of barracudas and occasional black-tipped reef sharks inhabit the place.
10. Rock-Point is a wall dropping down to 50 meters and borders a protected underwater area with several caves, incisions and overhangs where sea snakes, barracudas, large groupers, napoleon wrasses and snappers live.
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