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Manila Couch Divers Group was conceived during a get together of the Manila Couch Surfers over beer and live music.  And on the faithful day of 28 October, 2007, 5 of it's founding members were transported to AquaVenture Reef Club for the much anticipated and talked about Inaugural Dive.  One of which is yours truly, of course! This is going to be my first drift-dive and so I hardly slept the night before. :DFirst dive was at the site called Saddle, named so because of three saddle-…

I am diving again! I am so glad to find new dive buddies here in the Philippines. I was with two old friends (from my old project) and 2 new friends. I was the fifth wheel on that trip but it didn't bother me a bit. All I wanted was to dive dive dive.. and be surrounded with cool and very nice people! :)We visited 5 dive sites:1. Twin Rock - just in front of the Planet Dive Resort. I had a hard time equalizing.2. Aphol's Rock - Named after a fisherman whose name is Apolinario. What a coincide…

Last day at the sea I have to say goodbye to a big part of my journey to the Philippines the amazing diving and snorkeling part of the country. Hence after breakfast I will go out for a bit of snorkeling and like the previous days the water is really clear and everything. Hence it is no problem to get a good look at the fish and corals close to the shore. There is no other divers today so I will have to settle with just the snorkeling which is not that bad in the end.   After lunch it …

We (Kenneth, Dax and I) decided to escape the busy polluted streets of Manila and headed off to Anilao Batangas last Sunday...Although there were only 3 of us, we had so much fun swimming and.... doing our photo shoots! bwahaha... Before heading home we decided to pass by Tagaytay to have bulalo for dinner..

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