Pamilacan island is home to steep sloping reefs, large hard and soft corals teeming with fish and rare macro life, large animals like hawksbill sea turtles and schools of barracuda. It is located about 40-minute boat ride from our dive center on Alona beach.
Dive Sites in Pamilacan
25. SANCTUARY
Depth:
3-30 meters
Description:
Near the Spanish Tower dive spot we find Sanctuary, close to the protected area demarcated by buoys where scuba diving is not allowed. We jump like 500 meters before the buoys in a shallow area full of corals, after we descend through a steep slope rich in macro life. When we are approaching to the buoys we will go into the blue to do the safety stop.
Marine Life:
Mandarinfish, cuttlefish, robust pipefish, nudibranch, sweetlips, garden eel, moray eel, butterflyfish, bannerfish, and trumpetfish.
26. SPANISH TOWER
Depth:
3-30 meters
Description:
We begin the dive in front of the 200 years old Spanish fort (only one tower remains) located at the northeast of Pamilacan Island. There is a slope with huge rocks and coral formations, and the shallow area is decorated with a wonderful coral garden. Good for snorkeling.
Marine Life:
Mandarinfish, cuttlefish, robust pipefish, turtle, blue fin trevally, surgeonfish, pufferfish, nudibranch, lionfish, batfish, butterflyfish, etc.
27. DAKIT DAKIT
Description:
Dakit-dakit means “big tree” in the local language, Visaya. In the south-eastern point of Pamilacan Island there is a sandy slope decorated with huge trees of black sun coral, soft corals and long wipe corals, and a wall begins at around 25 meters deep. If as usual there is a moderate current, we’ll do a drift dive. The dive site looks like an aquarium, well decorated, full of reef fish around the coral formations. On this dive site we can encounter turtles, schools of barracudas, emperor fish, big mouth mackerel and the big school of jackfish! If the current allows us to go slowly, there’s a great chance to find lots of macro critters as well.
Marine Life:
Look out to the sand where the bluespotted stingray hides, and spot turtles, nudibranch, barracudas, big mouth mackerel, emperor fish, shrimp, unicornfish, sea snakes, frogfish, moray eel, pufferfish, anemonefish, and more.
