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Palawan’s Subterranean River
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 2 August 2010
Palawan tourism officials love to love their not-so-world-famous subterranean river. Although if they have their way, that is about to change. Nominated to compete in an online competition to choose the New Natural 7 Wonders of the World, Filipinos and foreign visitors are racing to see this piece of marketing mania for themselves. Heralded as [...]
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Bye, Bye G7
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 19 June 2010
We would like to dedicate this posting to our wonderful little G7 which was tragically lost to the waves off the coast of Verde Island. Our little G7 traveled with us from the heights of the Himalayas to the depths of the oceans in the Philippines. From the dense jungles of Sri Lanka to the arid [...]
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Puerta Galera Underwater
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 17 June 2010
Sabang’s incompetent dive shops have caused us quite a bit of pain, but the underwater experience completely makes up for it. With over 40 spectacular dive sites close to shore and plenty of snorkeling off of Monkey Beach and Big La Laguna Beach, we have managed to look beyond the sloppy service and, instead, look [...]
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Splish Splash
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 12 June 2010
If you think evil sea creatures only live offshore, think again. Sometimes, the real danger lingers where the surf meets the turf. While snorkeling back to the beach, I noticed three pairs of little feet stirring up sand all around me. When I popped my head out of the water and removed my mask, I looked [...]
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Watch Where You Step!
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 9 June 2010
Watch out! There are some scary things a-lurkin’ in those rocks just offshore. And they blend in with their surroundings perfectly. The scorpionfish above appears to have activated its cloaking device. Can you see it? Just in case you can’t quite make it out, we’ve added the highlighted picture below to help you find our little [...]
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Hole in the Wall
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 7 June 2010
Check out Tony as he swims through Sabang’s famous Hole in the Wall. It’s a beautiful dive site with schools of tiny fish, stunning coral, and ribbon-like banded sea snakes. Although sea snakes are one of the world’s most poisonous animals, the real threat proved to be the fire coral lining the swim-through. [...]
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Lionfish Art
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 3 June 2010
It looks like a piece of abstract art, but the picture above is a lionfish (viewed from above) hovering alongside the rusted hull of the Alma Jane. The flash really brought out the translucent coloring in the feather-like fins of the fish. Underwater photography is a whole new art for us, but I think we [...]
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The Alma Jane
Blog: ContemporaryNomad - 1 June 2010
I always used to say that I wasn’t a huge fan of wreck diving, but after diving the Alma Jane, I just may have to reconsider. Huge schools of bat fish, swirls of black trigger fish, eels, snakes, and enormous lion fish hovering like underwater mines along the way – what an adventure. Inspired by [...]
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Maritime Woes
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 29 April 2010
There are many things unique and wonderful about the Philippines. But the boatmen here are phenomenal in many of the wrong ways. Right now, sat in utter serenity on a perfect crescent of a beach (me) and scaling a coconut palm (Z), the various unpleasantnesses of the morning feel like serendipity in action. All the [...]
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Here Comes the Rain…
Blog: Travels with a Nine Year Old - 28 April 2010
Maybe it’s El Nino. Maybe it’s climate change. Maybe we’ve brought the English summer with us. But it feels like the rains have come early this year. And Z is overjoyed. We walked to the Puerto Princesa underground river yesterday — supposedly the world’s longest navigable river — under heavy skies and dripping leaves. And [...]
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Cock Fights & Naughty Monkeys
Blog: Itinerant Londoner - 13 February 2010
Relaxing as it is to spend time diving, snorkelling and island hopping, even that gets a little strenous after a while (it’s a hard life), so it was time to leave El Nido for somewhere even more relaxing. Port Barton lies on the coast of Palawan, about half way between the tourist centres of El [...]
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