Malapascua Island - Where I met my wife :-)

At the 00:40 mark is the reason why I went there - to scuba dive and see the very impressive tail of the thresher shark

If you love the Thresher Shark and Malapascua then this lady must surely be on your radar?

https://futurefornature.org/ffn_winner/anna-oposa/

I would be interested to see how the work she has done is perceived in the region but the sanctuary has been a labour of love for her. I haven’t personally met her (but my 7 yo daughter has when she and my wife visited in 2017).

After the typhoon (Anna describes the importance of the Thresher Sharks at Monad Shoal) :

This video is from 2019 and at 04:45min it shows a nice empty beach away from the main beach.
The man is a little too loquacious for my liking - I would have preferred more video of the island.



It is possible to walk around the island in a few hours so it is quite small. There are no roads, just tracks for people and small motorbikes.
I haven't been back there since 2008. My wife tells me it has changed but perhaps not vastly.

I went to malapascua years ago,nice place,there used to be a local who used to bite the green husk from a coconut as his party piece.

“These sharks are worth more to us alive than dead”, says it all really.

Mrs Ash watches these a lot:



Bisayang Hilaw.

Thresher sharks at Monad Shoal, which is a very boring underwater plateau but the sharks make it worthwhile

https://www.sea-explorers.com/monad-shoal-malapascua-philippines/

A happy couple with lots of PDA (public displays of affection).

I got some footage earlier of my sons cousin catching and releasing an 8 foot thresher shark, caught on light tackle off Davao, the shark looks stunning

Just took a screen shot from the footage, glad to see it was released

Nice to see a thresher shark back where it wants to be

The interesting thing is on the footage you hear one of them say "Catch and release" when they realise its a shark, it swam off strongly