Dumaguete Trip: Apo Island adventure

May 7, 2022

Hello guys! If you read my previous articles, you’ll already have an idea what this article is about. I’m gonna share today what happened on our third day in Dumaguete. But before anything else, joystick.club has anither minting event presenting SmartBabies. You can mint your own personal smartbaby with just only 10 JOY token. Staking of this cute babies are on development and for sure it would also be a blast. So back to my original intent, let’s go!

We decided to visit the Apo island in Dumaguete. It is called Turtle island because it is best known as a turtle sanctuary in the area. Guest can do snorkeling together with green turtles and hawksbill turtle.

Before we got to the island, we travel by land with a van to go to the port for almost 40 minutes. And there we rode a small boat getting to Apo Island.

The travel from the port to the island is about 1 hour. It was cloudy that day but good thing that the waves aren’t too big.

The water is clear when you get to the island. But be careful when getting down on the boat because the sea floor are made of big rocks which are slippery.

The seashore isn’t like the other beaches here in the Philippines. No fine sands to be found but it is white because of the stones and shells.

The picture above is the area where you can snorkel with the turtles. Don’t worry if you don’t have any snorkeling gear because there are available gears there. You’ll just have to pay a certain amount to use it. And for those who can’t swim like me, there is a guide that will be accompanying you while you are holding on a “salbabida.”

I was amazed on what I saw under the sea. Beautiful fishes, coral reefs and of course the giant hawksbill turtle. It was huge that sometime I got afraid especially when it is swimming towards you. Too bad that I didn’t got a picture of the scene underwater because even if my phone is water resistant, the guide told us that it is better to be left because it might get lost. (I think I need an action cam for my next adventure. Lol)

So after swimming with the turtles, we just took some pictures around the area. Sorry if the quality isn’t good, ☺️

We called it a day at exactly 3pm. We rode again the boat back to the port.

By the way, the Dunaguete trip wouldn’t be complete if we won’t taste the Silvannas. Dunaguete is well known for this chewy and sweet delicacy. There are different flavir like butter, ube, choco, strawberry and pandan. But I love the most is the ube flavor.

So that’s what happened on our Dunaguete trip. And if given a chance, I would definitely visit on this place again.