10 Things Nobody Tells You Before Your First Trip to Malapascua
Planning your first trip to Malapascua? Here are 10 things the guidebooks don’t mention, from power outages to the best beach bars to why you should pack light.
Island Life
We’re Back: Diving Malapascua After Covid
After the longest closure in our history, Malapascua is open again. The reefs are healthier than ever, the sharks are still there, and we’re ready.
One Year After Haiyan: How Malapascua Came Back
In November 2013, Typhoon Haiyan flattened Malapascua Island. One year on, here’s what happened, how we rebuilt, and why the sharks never left.
Family Planning
This blog is ostensibly a diving blog, but our lives here are, by necessity, intertwined with local life and the local community so today’s entry will focus on them. As you know if you have been here, the local community is very poor. The Philippines itself has huge problems with poverty. Wealth is concentrated in …
TSD newsletter finally launched
After years of planning and procrastinating, we have finally launched our newsletter! If you are interested in receiving our regular updates, you can sign up here: http://www.malapascua-diving.com/newsletters/newsletter.html Updates will be sent quarterly so they are sure to be packed with loads of interesting reads and it is easy to unsubscribe if ever you so choose.
Nesting Sea Snakes
For the last few weeks we have been returning to a nest of sea snakes at Gato. Every time they have been growing bigger and bigger. Here is a piccy courtesy of Sarah King… How cute are they?
Booze cruise
What a great booze cruise last night. That had to rank one of our most fun. The weather wasn’t ideal, but at least it didn’t rain and the participants certainly made up for it in terms of personality. Mixing the first of many lethal buckets I made my lethal rum bucket and it was passed …
TSD-heads
Tata recently went wild with his hair clippers and the next day most of staff sported severe number ones. Edgar and Ondo of them even went so far as to show us how much they love their jobs…
At last, Sunday Roast returns to Malapascua
Work on our new restaurant is moving very quickly and we are licking our lips in anticipation. Gareth, our “Executive Chef’ has already started experimenting and we are lining up to be his test subjects. Yesterday we had our first official BRITISH SUNDAY ROAST DINNER. Staff and customers joined together to indulge in this much …
Today we joined the millennium and started a Facebook group. Hope to see you there.