Tag: Moalboal

Moalboal is a small and lively coastal village on the southwest corner on the island of Cebu. Over the years Moalboal has made quite a name for itself within the snorkeling community as it is logistically quite easy to arrive to, but more importantly because it has some world class reefs and marine life. The reefs around Moalboal are easily accessible from the beaches, so you could in theory just walk into the water at any point and find great snorkeling. However, since we will be doing our snorkeling with a resort, they will be escorting us comfortably by one of their boats known as a banca. All we need to do is take in the lovely coast line and plop into the water when we arrive. The only time we will be needing to do a beach entry is from the resort to access their house reef. For this reason we highly recommend bringing open heel fins with booties as this short walk out can be a bit slippery.  For the most part the orientation and topography of the local reefs are characterized by a very gently sloping plateau that starts from the beach and extends to about a hundred meters or so from the coast line. Average depths start from the very very shallows and as you swim further from the island it gradually drops to about five meters or fifteen feet where the reef turns in to a vertical wall that drops off into the beautiful blue abyss. While most of the snorkeling is done just off the main coast line, there is a small limestone island called Pescadore with a really beautiful fringing reef. It takes about 15-30 minutes to arrive to and it is well worth a visit.  In the shallows of just about all