The return trip to the Philippines. John, Brent and Dave trying to repeat the successful trip of 2007. The diving in Dumaguete is better than Puerto Galera. We saw incredible fields of pristine coral reefs, wild and unusual critters and fish, and a different part of the country of the Philippines than we had seen before. The resort was fun, the people were great, and the weather was good. The biggest problem we encountered was our clumsy itinerary which took 37 hours to get to the resort and 49 hours to return. We had a few hours on the return trip to take a short tour of Hong Kong and an unplanned stay in LA, too. Hong Kong was cool. LA was not.
At times it seemed we spent half the trip on planes
Once we got there, the resort was pretty cool
The shoreline from the departing dive boat
Our dive boat. The kids loved to dive off the outriggers
Incredible fields of pristine staghorn coral
Along with colorful soft corals
The old and new juxtaposed.
The 3 of us, Dave, Brent, and John ready for a dive
John hovers over an enormous school of catfish
A school of razorfish. They all moved as one.
We found Nemo again. false clown anemone fish
Tomato anemone fish
Banded sea snake
Painted frogfish. Photo by John Pearson
Lionfish
Juvenile Lionfish
John, Brent, and Dave at dinner.
Night view of Hong Kong from the peak during our whirlwind tour of the city
