Philippine Travels

While I have been doing my research on other places to visit around the Philippines, I keep bumping into websites and blogs of others that inspire me to travel more around these islands. So this is a "Must do one day" type of post for me, So I hope you like it and maybe one day be inspired to visit too. I suppose its going to be like a bucket list, but hey thats what life is about, making bucket lists and ticking of as many as you can before you hit the ground and meet your maker. Note that I like to add the Tripadvisor links as I have found it to be a good way to weed out the places that are not so right to stay. Other travellers opinions count when it comes to accommodation and time spent and as we spend a lot of our hard earned cash to go to these places so we want it to be right. Whale sharks & other news from Sogod Bay, Southern Leyte, Philippines Sogod Bay in Southern Leyte offers probably the finest shore based diving and snorkeling in the Philippines with w...

Social media shark tracking program aims to foster better understanding among humans For the first time, people can follow the travels of satellite-tagged sharks with names such as Rachael, Harriett and Lil’ Fella as they make their way up and down the coast on public tracking website wheresmyshark.com. Researchers have tracked some of the ocean’s top predators travelling thousands of kilometres just off the Queensland coast. But rather than scare people with the thought of giant sharks lurking just off our coastline, the program is designed to engender a bit of ­affection for them. There are even plans for people to be able to “adopt” their own shark, such as Rachael, a four-year-old great white about 3m long. Since being tagged as a juvenile off the Gold Coast three years ago, Rachael has travelled as far south as Victoria before returning to warmer waters. Then there’s Harriett, a 3.5m dusky whaler that covered a “phenomenal” 3200km in 12 months. Shark scientist Jonathan We...

Every summer, the ominous display of a dorsal fin sends crowds scurrying for the shore—and newspaper headlines exploding with warnings. Find out why that’s the wrong way to act. The shark's reputation as a killer was sealed in the public imagination with the 1975 release of Jaws, a movie with imagery so powerful that the book's author, Peter Benchley, devoted the rest of his life to dismantling the character he had helped create. The shark in the book and subsequent film was a brutal, instinctive killer with a dozen rows of jagged teeth and a taste for human flesh. The bloodthirsty great white has become an archetype so pervasive that even a news story reporting on a harmless two-foot sand shark can't resist recalling the Jaws mythos. The reality of shark attacks, however, is that they are few and far between. Out of hundreds of shark species, only great white, tiger, and bull sharks have been involved in unprovoked attacks. Since 2003, sharks have killed only four people a...