All pictures are copyrighted and property of flaircandy.com. Pictures can be grabbed with the author’s permission or credits to my site flaircandy.com. All underwater pictures are taken by Panasonic Lumix TZ5.

Since I am kinda claustrophobic and that includes me being trapped underwater, I tried an alternative to scuba diving. Yes, although I really wanna try so much the scuba diving thing and being underwater for almost 45 minutes, I still don’t have the balls try it… Well not for now… probably later…

But I wanted to try being underwater still but less riskier… So I tried reef walking!!! They said that there is not so much danger if you are 15 feet below water. If you are way lower than that then you have to listen to your dive instructors because if you think you can just swim from down there and 15feet above up at an instant then you’re more likely to have an injury…

But this reef walking is such a baby activity that anyone who just know how to obey the rules can do…

This is not so popular yet in the Philippines but it is known in Countries with beautiful reefs like Australia and Thailand. Most people would also not like the idea and got turned off by it even if it is being offered face-to-face. They would rather ride a banana boat or flying fish if they’re so much of a baby, and try scuba diving if they are hyper daring!

But for mid fellas like me who is just getting my groove on the underwater stuff and conquering my aqua-claustrophobism then you sure must try this!

At the boracay, the rates for this activity goes around 500 to 600. You could get a discount if you go in as a group (like we did). The speedboat ride form the boracay shore to a reef walking spot is already included in the price so yippey-di-do-wap-ba-bap! you’re off to try this now if you see my pictures I am pretty sure.

Here’s how we knew about reef-walking (paraphrased conversation between my, Kristel and Angela while we were planning our Boracay activities together):

What time izzit?? laglagan na! XD

Kristel: I wanna try Reef walking!

Angela and me: What is that?

Kristel: I haven’t tried that yet, but literally, reef-walking.. and you have like a some sorta fishbowl in your head.

Angela: (**silent laughter** rotflmao)

Me: ah… that’s kinda super weird i haven’t heard of that…

Kristel: let’s google it!

(aparantly we couldn’t find any pictures)

AT THE BORACAY.

Kristel: cmon! let’s go reef walking

Angela: I don’t like I’m scared of the fishies and we would all look stupid walking along the shore with a fishbowl and fishies in your head +_+’

Kristel and me: **literally LOL**

But I couldn’t blame her for that because I actually could just not imagine having a fishbowl in my head too!!! so, our mistake Kristel and luckily and hopefully when someone googles “REEF-WALKING” at least they would already see some pictures of it and not create victims of people like us LOL!

This is also actually the first time I used my Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5 underwater! I will post more about it soon but see I am so glad of the results!

here are samples of underwater pictures for Panasonic Lumix DMC TZ5.

Captured by Lumix, but sad, the corals look dead

Water aliens

Me, Cisqo and Kristel

This doesn't look like a fishbowl to me, this looks more like a dishwasher

The fishy wanna fight Cisqo

Click here for the complete pictures on my flickr Reef Walking Gallery.

More Reef Walking Pictures

Who to contact?

Please look for Danny of Bora Napoleon sports and contact him at +63 910 805 0021 Tell him flaircandy.com referred him

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3. Nestea Fit Camp Hot 2010 Day 1 – Dinner Party at Summer Place Boracay
4. Surfing in Boracay
5. Live Blogging: Nestea Fit Camp Boracay Day 1
6. Day 2: Apo Island
7. Missing Boracay, Missing Summer
8. Blog Clog
9. Is Nikon D40 Fit for Candy?
10. My list of places to go this 2009

51 Comments

• At 2009.04.13 08:40, L.A said:
  

  I really want to try that since last last year, how much pala yung rate nila dyan?

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  • At 2009.04.13 09:00, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    go go go! 500 for us

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• At 2009.04.13 09:12, john said:
  

  wow i really like this one .. i hope i can experience something like this too .. i mean someday ..

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  • At 2009.04.13 14:01, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    Hi I went to your site, seems like you love the beach as well. In that case, go for it!

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    • At 2009.04.13 17:00, john said:
      

      yes i love boracay .. and trying to guide people on its hotels .. which one are you in the picture ? the black suit ?

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      • At 2009.04.16 09:37, Hannah said:
        

        actually that’s navy blue but yea

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• At 2009.04.13 13:12, Ongai said:
  

  500?? We got it for 350 only! lol joke!:P Shux..Your fishbowl is better than the ones we got. Kaya kailangan mag turn para makita yung sa side namin haha Hmm..parang gusto ko mag beach ulit ah!

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  • At 2009.04.13 14:03, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    Ongai! di na? iba? “fishbowls” n a talaga ang tawag natin eh no lol alam mo bang lahat tayo ganyan ang iniisip, si Tel and Angela kahit kakarating niya lang from her Eurotrip gusto niyang bumalik XD if only… pwedeng next summer ^_^ then sa shang na tayo LOL

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• At 2009.04.13 19:18, satkuru said:
  

  WOahhhhhh, i would loveeee to do that some day and i must say that digicam of urs really did come in handy. probably should get one before my bali trip, lol

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  • At 2009.04.14 07:08, Hannah said:
    

    ha ha yes it does come in handy… even if my slr got an underwater case I wouldn’t dare take it down there with me lol… would you? And btw, BALI? wow!!! when?

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• At 2009.04.13 19:28, epfi said:
  

  500 for a reef walk in fish bowl?
  well kung ganyan kaganda ang scenery ok lang.

  sana lang sa oct mas mura
  lolz

  *** napadpad lang

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  • At 2009.04.16 09:36, Hannah said:
    

    haha ey epfi ^_^ yep try mo rin

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• At 2009.04.14 01:38, jehzlau said:
  

  whoaaa! cool! parang gustong gusto ko eto a try ah.. yay! ur theme is back!!! hahahaha! weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

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• At 2009.04.16 00:02, Kristel said:
  

  Laughtrip, you published the conversation! =))

  I had fun! I heard you’re going to Palawan??? Pahinga ka naman! =P

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  • At 2009.04.21 02:17, Hannah said:
    

    hahaha… di na ata matutuloy coz I’m saving for our HK-Macau trip! yeah baby!!! but let’s go back to bora again together plish…

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• At 2009.04.16 09:37, Hannah said:
  

  which theme? :0

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  • At 2009.04.20 00:29, jehzlau said:
    

    sa browser ko lang pala nakikita kasi sinelect ko.. haha! yung flaircandy theme

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    • At 2009.04.23 12:07, Hannah said:
      

      ah, yeah the theme switcher

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• At 2009.04.21 01:27, jehzlau said:
  

  teka.. pahabol.. pwede ba mag dala ng tinapay para ipa kain sa isda? hehehe

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  • At 2009.04.23 12:07, Hannah said:
    

    hahaha, kasama na sa bayad yon…

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• At 2009.04.26 23:20, Jen said:
  

  you have nice pics… reef walking for 500 pesos? we are planning to try this… meron kang contact number nila? thanks…

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• At 2009.04.27 08:00, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
  

  Hi Jen, I think I lost it but I will ask my friend and get back to you

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• At 2009.04.28 00:28, Jen said:
  

  thanks Hannah ha… sa friday kami punta kasi long weekend…

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• At 2009.04.28 10:30, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
  

  Hope you got my mail Jen! Enjoy your trip to Bora!!! The sun is up again ^_^

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• At 2009.04.28 21:19, Jen said:
  

  yes i did… salamat ng marami

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• At 2009.05.04 20:12, belle said:
  

  ei ganda ng mga kuha nu, pwd q rn b mkuha ung contact number nung s reef walking? plan dn nmn pnta nxtwik e, try dn nmn mukhng msaya kc e. sna oks lng.tenkyu!=)

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  • At 2009.05.20 14:42, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    Hi belle, sorry I just replied to this now.. how was your bora outing? naka pag reef-walking ba kayo?

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• At 2009.05.25 10:31, apple said:
  

  hi, nice pics! can i also get the contact number? Parang ang saya! pnta kc kme sa bora, Me and hubby. thanks!

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• At 2009.05.28 00:27, Bryan said:
  

  you got it for P500/head? and u were a group of 3?

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  • At 2009.05.28 16:00, Hannah said:
    

    Hi yep we were a group of 5 actually…

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• At 2009.05.28 00:28, Ace said:
  

  hey just wanna ask. u got it for P500/head. how many were u? just a group of three?

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• At 2009.05.28 16:00, Hannah said:
  

  There were 5 of us but they only had 3 “fishbowls” at that time… so 3 of us went first, then 2 of my friends but yea 500 per head

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  • At 2009.06.01 13:18, Ace said:
    

    ahh ic do u remember the name where u rented ur gear and stuff? and did they take those pics? or u brought a camera wiht you? thanks for replying!

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• At 2009.05.28 16:04, Hannah said:
  

  I think it costs 600 initially

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• At 2009.06.02 02:52, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
  

  It’s part of the package yes, I had my compact cam and an underwater cover

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• At 2009.07.02 06:31, vicky said:
  

  hi! is your camera an underwater cam or did you buy a sleeve for it ? you have really nice shots

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:50, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    Thank you.. and yes I bought underwater sleeve for it. be careful in using it though. check first if the seal is tight

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• At 2009.07.04 08:30, anne said:
  

  hey nice pics, can i get the contact number where you rented the fishbowl thing? kelangan ba marunong lumangoy? hindi kasi ako marunong eh! hahaha just wanna try..
  tnx

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:51, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    please look at the bottom of my post. I have posted the contact number of the person in Bora and nope, you don’t need to know how to swim… coz you’re going to be walking sa reef mismo.. and if you need to get out may mga divers naman to assist

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• At 2009.09.06 00:23, razzt said:
  

  hello.. nice adventure.. can i also get the contact for this activity? planning to have vacation sa pinas this month.. thanks.. smirnoff_ridz@yahoo.com, if you still have the contacts for reef walk. thanks a lot

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:51, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    please look at the bottom of my post.

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• At 2009.09.20 12:14, odessachunnie said:
  

  gurl ang ganda nun gamit nio na helmet? sino contact person pa email naman po nun details!!!thanx

  joycereyes23@yahoo.com TIA!!!

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:52, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    please look at the bottom of my post.

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• At 2009.10.20 05:59, k said:
  

  hi can i get the contact number where you rented the equip. for reef walking. thanks.

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:52, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    please look at the bottom of my post.

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• At 2009.11.09 20:15, Jigs said:
  

  hey just dropping by and surfing for reef walking items, pictures..and i fortunately found your pictures.. im going to boracay tomorrow, it’s not scary?? im planning to try it on my 2nd visit ti Bora..with my some of my friends and some of them are scared to do it.. is it scary??

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  • At 2009.11.16 18:52, Hannah Rika Villasis said:
    

    not scary at all.. it’s fun! and may trained divers naman so don’t be scared

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• At 2010.01.16 23:03, len said:
  

  ung reef walking na 500 pati mga gamit na dun.. 500 na lhat lhat per person po?

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