| Kalipayan Location - Just off Alona Beach. Access - 6min by banca from Alona Beach. Average Depth - 33ft Maximum Depth - 65ft Conditions. Calm with no current with visibility up to 80ft. Known as the "Happy Wall", this is a pleasant short wall from 3m (10ft) to 20m(65ft)m with soft, leathery and stony corals, some small gorgonian sea fans, lots of small reef fish, small groupers and small barracuda. Arco Point (The Hole in the Wall) Location - Off Arco Point. Access - 12min by banca northeast Average Depth - 33ft Maximum Depth - 80ft Conditions - Calm with little current. Visibility up to 100ft. Sometimes called the "Hole in the Wall" because there is a vertical funnel which you can enter at 60ft and exit at 30ft. Balicasag Island - Southwest Wall/ Rico's Wall Location - Located at the southwest wall of Balicasag sland, 6km (4 miles) southwest of Panglao Island. Access - 45min by banca from Alona Beach to the sauth- west of Duljo Point. Average Depth - 50ft Maximum Depth - 165ft Conditions - Calm with variable currents but it can be rough and have fierce currents. You would not normally make this journey in rough weather, unless you were staying at the Balicasag Dive Resort. Visibility up to 130ft. At Rico's Wall there is a coral garden on a shelf from 7m (23ft) to 11m (36ft); beyond that a wall drops to 35m (115ft). The coral garden is rich in soft, leathery and stony corals, hydroids, nudibranchs, sea stars, sea cucumbers, crinoids, all the smaller reef fish, anemones and clownfish. At the eastern end, where this dive joins Rudy's Rock, there is a huge shoal of Big Eye Trevally that you can get in amongst. They will circle you for several minutes before becoming bored. Rudy's Rock is a continuation of Rico's Wall and much the same, except that large Green Turtles are often seen there. These are both world-class dives. Diving Sites: Napaling, Duljo Point, Pungtud Wall, Southwest Wall/Rico's Wall, Southeast Wall/Rudy's Rock, Northeast Slope/Black Forest, Kalipayan, Arco Point (The Hole in the Wall), Cervera Shoal (Spaghetti Shoal), Pamilacan Island - Northwest Side, Hammerhead Point (Northwest Point), Southwest Point (Drifting North), Southwest Point (Drifting South and East)
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