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Cephalopods of Anilao

Started Oct 21, 2019 | Photos thread
kelpdiver Veteran Member • Posts: 5,564
Re: Cephalopods of Anilao

PHXAZCRAIG wrote:

That's a small octopus in the first image. Are the others of similar size?

the blue ring is typically size of your fist.  The flamboyant cuttlefish is much smaller.

the cuttlefish and the squid are larger, usually a challenge.   A larger octopus on my 60 (120mm equiv) means partial head shots.

I started looking at airfares and saw some pretty low fares from LAX to Manila. Then I saw the flight times...

Going there is rougher, there's no way to dodge the jet stream.   But return flight is 3 hours shorter.    You can get small amount of relief breaking it up - flying to TPE first, or to HNL.

The reason you do it is the volume of subjects.   There are dives where you see more sea horses in a single dive than you would in a week at any Caribbean destination.   It's just an entirely different ball game.   Also much cheaper - 10 days hotel with 34 boat dives with 1-2 other customers in the boat - ~2500.

But not the place for Americans to go for a quick 5 day jaunt.  Hawaii, Mexico, Carib does win there, though if it's not a direct flight from SF, most Carib destinations are nearly as long a transit, or worse.   Often requires a redeye to Houston.   I can fly to Fiji or MNL nearly as easily.

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