Moalboal

Day 153.

Without a second to spare we waved goodbye to waterfall territory and headed back up the coast to the much anticipated Moalboal, the backpacker hub of Cebu - and with good reason.

Moalboal is very unique for one feature alone - sardines, millions and millions of sardines. Amazingly armed with just a snorkel and some fins anyone can swim 30 meters off the beach, over a huge coral cliff and instantly be immersed in over 2 million of the little fellas. The shoals of sardines stay here all year round and swimming amongst them feels like something that should be on a David Attenborough BBC doco.

Watching the Sardines move simultaneously was mesmerising, so much so none of us left the water for hours on end, taking it in turns to dive into the deep blue wall of fish and watching them effortlessly split off at all angles. Occassionaly me and Limbster would tag team, our tactics where immpecable I must say and we managed to drive thousands of the sardines right at one another over and over again.

It wasn't just the Sardines that we will remember, the reef was one of the best we'd seen, full of life and colour, from jelly fish to octopus' to our absolute favourite, great big sea turtles. Moving slightly more our speed the turtles made for great watching and we were able to really get up close!

After a full day of snorkelling broken up only for food & a maybe a few too many San Miguels we were all knackered. Back on the bikes we headed up to white beach to end a great day with our final Sunset together on Cebu.

On route home we caught a glimpse of our first cock fight, not something we really wanted to seek out but as it's such a big part of the culture here we were always intrigued to catch a glimpse. It was as imagined pretty horrific and we were swiftly on our way.

It was farewell to the others for now, and onto Palawan for us.

P.s found a cinnabon in the airport today, never seen Ellie so happy, we absolutely smashed through it.Leggi altro