Coron / Chindonan Island

Our next stop was on Chindonan island, a very small island located close to Coron Island 🏝️
After spending a night in El Nido where we could enjoy a beautiful sunset, we took the ferry on the next day to reach Coron island. Our host was waiting for us on a speed boat to get to our final destination. After a 45 minutes drive, we finally reached our bungalow for the next 5 nights 🛖

It was really a cute place, entirely solar and wind-powered, and extremely quiet as there is no other place to stay on this side of the island besides the 5 bungalows 😍 Only one other guest was there at the same time, so we could definitely relax and enjoy the island life. We could snorkel and dive directly from the house reef, which was right outside our front door 🤗
Our host was organizing private island hopping tours as well as scuba diving sessions 🤿

We went snorkeling around the Lusong Gunboat, a Japanese shipwreck from WWII in a depth of 10 meters that is nicely covered with hard corals and offers a good variety of fish life. Then we drove to Coral Garden, the best preserved coral reef in the area and for us both the most beautiful corals we have ever seen so far. There were so many colors, it was magical ❤️ Our last stop for this tour was on Pass Island, a very beautiful island with white beach and palm trees to relax 😎

Our second excursion drove us to Black island, named after the steep black limestone cliffs it has. That small island offers many beautiful things to see: powdery white sand, limestones cliffs, caves, varans, a shipwreck right on the shore and few fish and corals 🐠 We spent a lovely day there, discovering the island, swimming and just resting.

On our last day, Vanessa had a discover dive with our host and saw a dugong few minutes before the end. This barely happens!! Even our host Dave was completely amazed as he’s only seen a dugong twice in all his years on the island 😍
(After chatting with Dave, we learnt that a lot of animals are coming back to the area now as fishing has been banned in this area to protect the marine life 💙)

In the evening we went together for a night dive with flashlights. This was a great experience, we could spot many shrimps, seahorses and crabs 🦐
We had a wonderful time on Chindonan Island, it was very relaxing and a really cool experience to live that isolated🏝️Leer más