Dive sites
Everything below is reachable on a morning boat from Alona Beach, with visibility that regularly passes 25 metres and water around 28 °C all year.
A 25-minute boat ride from Alona. A sheer coral wall dropping into the blue, with resident turtles and a tornado of jackfish that circles the shallows.
The famous Bohol sardine run, reachable straight from shore. Millions of sardines form shifting silver walls just five metres down.
Open-water pinnacles an hour offshore, where dolphins and passing whale sharks share the drop-offs with schooling barracuda.
A current-swept corner on the west tip of Panglao. Drift the slope past gorgonians and look out for eagle rays cruising the edge.
A chimney at 12 metres opens onto the reef face. Perfect second dive, packed with frogfish, nudibranchs and seahorses.
A long ridge between Bohol and Balicasag known for banded sea kraits weaving over the sand and hunting trevally.