This was our third non-stingy jellyfish mission in a year. There can't be many people in the world who have been to all three jellyfish lakes/lagoons, let alone done them all in one year. We think its probably us and a few marine biologists. Astrid is slightly obsessed with non-stingy jellyfish after having discovered them :)
Even tough these are technically the closest ones to us they proved to be the hardest to get to. From our hotel we still had to go 3hrs in a little boat to Bucas Grande - Sohoton area - strong winds were against us and it was quite a bumpy ride :) The area was beautiful though - with limestone caves to swim into, big fruit-bats hanging off trees, insect eating plants and of course jellyfish. What was curious was that these jellyfish were not in a lake, but in a lagoon off the main ocean. Also there were only very few jellyfish compared to the numbers we were used to in our last couple of adventures. Apparently people used to be able to swim with them, but the jellyfish dies - so now you can only see them from the boat - but they still let you touch them and quite frankly the guide wasn't particularly gentle with them - so not surprising that they died :)
Siargao is also known for surfing - Cloud 9 is one of the best known surfing waves with hollow tubes. We checked it out on the second day and the waves and the skills of the surfers were pretty awesome!
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