Bobs Place
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About this site
Bobs Place is a muck-diving site on a sandy slope with virtually no coral growth, located in the Dauin area of the Philippines. Rather than reef structure, the bottom is open sand that conceals a surprising variety of small, cryptic animals for those willing to search carefully.
The terrain is a gradual sandy slope formation, and the site also sits adjacent to a dry riverbed where large boulders and rocks have accumulated, creating sheltered pockets that harbour crabs, eels, and urchins alongside the sand-dwelling critters.
Bobs Place is well regarded as a macro and critter dive, with frogfish, ghost pipefish, seahorses, ambon scorpionfish, octopuses, and harlequin shrimps all recorded at the site. It is particularly suited to underwater photographers looking to find unusual and rarely seen subjects.
Marine life here
Confirmed by our research team, reported by independent divers, or observed nearby via iNaturalist — each entry is labelled with its source.
FrogfishFrogfishReported here · unconfirmed
SeahorseSeahorseReported here · unconfirmed
Ornate GhostpipefishSolenostomus paradoxusReported here · unconfirmed
Dusky NembrothaNembrotha kubaryanaReported here · unconfirmed
Anna's ChromodorisChromodoris annaeReported here · unconfirmed
Lined NembrothaNembrotha lineolataReported here · unconfirmed
Indian CaloriaCaloria indicaReported here · unconfirmed
Miller's NembrothaNembrotha milleriReported here · unconfirmed
Painted FrogfishAntennarius pictusReported here · unconfirmed
Robust GhostpipefishSolenostomus cyanopterusReported here · unconfirmed
Broadclub CuttlefishAscarosepion latimanusReported here · unconfirmed
Ocellaris AnemonefishAmphiprion ocellarisReported here · unconfirmed
ScorpionfishScorpionfishReported here · unconfirmed
OctopusOctopusReported here · unconfirmed
Ghost pipefishGhost pipefishReported here · unconfirmed
Harlequin ShrimpHymenocera pictaReported here · unconfirmed
Blacksaddle TobyCanthigaster valentiniObserved near here · iNaturalist
Green Sea TurtleChelonia mydasObserved near here · iNaturalist
Spiny SeahorseHippocampus histrixObserved near here · iNaturalist
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