by MONTY HALL
“Great Ocean Adventure” TV series
For every moment of these trips spent arguing with a bovine check-in clerk at an airport, or sitting on a loo in a fly-blown hotel as the latest local delicacy thunders exuberantly out of your system, there is an ultimate reward.
As a firm believer in karma, and having braved the three-hour trip up the coast of Cebu in the Philippines with a driver who must have held equally strong views about reincarnation, it seemed apt that the island looming on the horizon was classically beautiful.
Unusually for one of our filming projects, we would be spending our entire Philippines trip on the tiny island of Malapascua, measuring about 2km by 1km. Our huts on the beach were perhaps the ultimate in romantic hideaways, the perfect place then for me to share with a big hairy cameraman.
We had been assured that our dive operator was just 10 minutes’ walk away. This ignored the warren of tracks and paths through the tiny fishing villages that dotted the island. My first trip, begun in the glow of a tropical dusk and ending in pitch darkness an hour later, was made possible only by two tiny children. (more…)
Incoming search terms:
- malapascua island
- malapascua
- thresher shark
- malapascua island cebu
- malapascua cebu
- malapascua thresher shark
- malapascua island resorts
- Thresher shark swimming
- tresher shark
- malapascua island cebu pictures
