5/21/2008 09:34:00 AM

Nipa Hauz Beach Resort, Carabao Island Philippines

Village Reef -
Carabao Island Philippines


Location: The center of the east face of Carabao Island.

Access: 1 hr 10 min north by boat.

Conditions: Generally calm, with occasionally a slight current. Visibility can reach 80 ft.

Average depth: 50 ft

Maximum depth: 80 ft

A rich coral garden on a gentle slope from 23 to 33 ft is followed by a drop-off down to sand at 80 ft. The drop-off itself runs north to south for 660 ft.

The coral garden has profuse soft, leathery and table corals and there are good stony corals down the drop-ff. The large variety of reef fish includes surgeonfish, butterflyfish, angelfish, damselfish, lionfish, scorpionfish, pufferfish, parrotfish and chromis, with lizardfish, Blue-spotted Lagoon Rays, sea stars and sea cucumbers down on the sand.


(Scorpionfish) and (Lionfish)


STAY AT:

NIPA HAUZ BEACH RESORT own and manage by MERELYN F. GONZAGA which located in Barangay Sinongtan, (CARABAO ISLAND) San Jose, Province of Romblon, Philippines.

For more information PLEASE CONTACT ME:

Email: nildabaculo@yahoo.com