Great Moalboal Sardine School

Klaus Stiefel · Issue 89, Mar/Apr 2016 · pp. 63–66

Products mentioned: Canon EOS5DII, Canon L 17-40mm, Hugyfot housing, Inon Z-240 strobes, LuminanceHDR 2.4

Moalboal in the south of Cebu is your typical charming little Philippine country town with a church, a buzzing fruit and fish market, a statue of national hero Dr. Jose Rizal with the usual book in his hands, and a hand full of pawn shops. From the chicken-barbecue street-corner eateries you can watch the city life involving market-goers of all ages, groups of giggling school-kids in bright white uniforms, and lots of very relaxed looking guys leaning on their mopeds and tricycles, hanging out on street corners and offering rides. The tricycle is one of the main forms of transportation in the Philippines - it’s a side car welded to a motorcycle in an act of impressive back-yard engineering. A short tricylce ride with a driver who would undoubtedly make it in formula 1, if given the chance, brings you to Panagsama beach, the diving suburb of Moalboal. About a dozen dive shops on the rocky…