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Scuba Diving and Snorkeling

Bohol, Philippines

A ferry took us from Cebu to Bohol. We had the opportunity to visit several land and ocean based sites on this island. We drove to the Chocolate Hills, a geological formation of nearly 1,300 conical hills spread over 20 square miles. These uniform shape and size hills (resembling giant chocolate Kisses when they are brown in the dry season) were formed by an uplift of coral deposits and then erosion by water and weathering over the centuries. They were green with only a few brown ones, even...

Cebu, Philippines

It was an late afternoon flight over to Cebu, with an early morning drive of 3 hours to Moalboal for the Sardine Run. There are massive schools of millions of sardines moving along in unison within the waters off the coastline of Cebu island. It is an odd sardine experience as it is not seasonal, but year-round, even though normally considered part of a migratory pattern. The dense shoals protect individual fish from predators. This type of tight group formation is particularly well...

 
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