| Summary | We are able to swim with Whale Shark and also to dive from November to
March. I planned to go end of November and early December. |
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| Itinerary | There are two ways to Southern Lyte: By land from Tacloban via Manila and
by sea from Cebu. I asked to the dive center how I can get there. If I request them to tranfer from the Tacloban Airport to the resort, it cost PHP5,000 each way. In addition, arrival to the resort is midnight and reparture from the resort is also midnight. I chose to stay one night in Tacloban and use public transportation in day time both way there and way back. Whale Shark swimming the next day of arrival, after that 3 days diving. |
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| From Tacloban |
They told me to get miniban bound for Maasin and change Jeepney for Padre
Burgos. It took 4 hours and 1hour, finally I arrived the Peter's Dive Resort. I was asked additional one person fare for my luggage, I expected it could happen. |
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| Whele Shark Swim |
We depated at 8AM, after one hour and half, we took a lecture and prepared. The mother ship and several tugged small boats have been searching Whale Shark thoroughly. I guessed the schedule might be Whale Shark swimming in the morning, after that lunch time, then came back to the resort. However they couldn't find out Whale Shark until 1 PM, we had lunch short break . They kindly and thankfully extended to search in the afternoon. At last, we were able to swim with Whale Shark for 10 min. around 3PM. I thought we headed to the resort, but they searched again for one hour but no Whale Shark. We came back to the resort around 6PM.. |
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| It looked over 10 meters, and it was very close to me. So it sticked out of some photos with wide conversion lens. | ||||||||
| Diving | Peter's Dive Resort | 1st day | 1 | Turtle Rock | 2 | Medicare South | 3 | Medicare North |
| 2nd day | 1 | Gunther's Wall | 2 | Adrian's Cove | 3 | Peter's House Reef | ||
| 3rd day | 1 | Olly's Wall | 2 | Titings Point | 3 | Caaga |
| 1st day | 3 dives not far site in the Lyte Island bringing lunch. | ||
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| 2nd day | 2 dives in the Limasawa Island in the morning, and then afternoon dive in the house reef after lunch. | ||
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| 3rd day | 2 dives in the Panaon Island in the morning, and then shore dive by car after luch. Macro one-on-one. | ||
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| Land scenery | Replacing usual DSLR with compact digital camera for land scenary, because it was out of order. | ||
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| Back home |
Back the same way I came. I was taken to Padre Burgos and change miniban
boud for Tacloban. Same as the way there one person fare for my luggage, then one night in Tacloban. Next eary morning moved to the airport by taxo, then came home via Manila. |
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