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Liberty’s  Lodge APO

Liberty’s Lodge Valencia

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Libertys diving on APO

Liberty’s  Lodge APO

Liberty’s Lodge Valencia

About  us

Dive courses

Lodge rooms 1-6

Discover area around

Contact us

Dive sites 1-2

Lodge rooms 7-20

Discover Dumaguete

Get here and away

Dive sites 3-6

Dive pictures

Maps around APO

APO village life

Dive sites 7-10

APO Pictures

Helpful Informations

APO history and help

Liberty´s dive Truno

APO press & oppinons

Offers + last minute

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     Liberty´s Lodge and Dive

 

         Former name : Pauls diving and Libertys Lodge

Dive sites  7-10  around APO Island

Mamsa Point

Mamsa starts halfway down Cogon, you drift along the slope, past the school of Jacks before reaching the big boulders at Mamsa Point and the wall beyond. Many fish hang out at this point including Humpback Snappers (Lutjanus gibbus) and a Bluelined Grouper (Cephalopholis formosa).

Around the corner and out of the current, the character of the wall changes. Now there is plenty of soft coral on the vertical wall with gentle down currents on the sandy slopes between the underwater headlands. There are many Bignose Unicornfish (Naso vlamingii) holding territories on the headlands with many other surgeons and fusiliers. The dive finishes with the superb hard corals of Kan-u-ran.

Kan-u-ran  

 Kan-u-ran on the east side of Apo is between the Sanctuary and Cogon. 

 

It is named after one of the original inhabitants Uran.

Here you will find the deepest wall on Apo.  Starting in the north from 10m to 50m deep, gradually tapering out in the southern part of the dive.  On the shore side of the wall is a large plateau some 80+m wide.  Large areas are dominated by Staghorn Coral (Acropora sp), beautiful fields of branching coral covering areas the size of football fields.  Trumpet fish (Aulostomus chinensis) and Groupers (Cephalopholis sp.) abound.

A feature of Kan-u-ran are the Pyjama Cardinalfish (Sphaeramia nematoptera) spending the day resting in the staghorn coral at the Sanctuary end of the dive.  Coming back along the wall it is common to see a wide variety of nudibranches.  Hiding with their camouflage are plenty of Scorpion fish (Scorpaenopsis sp.).  Off the edge of the wall schools of fusiliers (Caesio sp) go racing by.

 

Coconut has its moments, depending on the time of year, the tides and the moon.  In the North East winds (November - May) the currents are strong often creating a washing machine effect.  Welcome to the coconut express, climb aboard the express and hang there as the current pushes you along.  Great Barracudas (Sphyraena barracuda) Giant Trevallies (Caranx ignobilis)(1.5 m long), huge Angelfish (Pomacanthus semicirculatus & Pomacanthus sexstriatus), schools of Bigeye Jacks (Caranx sexfasciatus), Batfish and turtles (Green and Hawksbill).

Coconut

There is just too much to describe or to take in on one dive.  As your express slows down you continue your dive in Coconut south amongst beautiful hard corals and the reefs smaller inhabitants.  A particular highlight on the reef flat is the very well camouflaged Short Dragonfish (Europegasus draconis) and many species of Pipefish. T he way that we dive Coconut varies depending on the season.  From May to November the winds come from the South West and on some days we are able to dive the shallow part of coconut, which is as mind blowing as the deeper realms.