Belle's Wall is one of Siquijor's most popular shore entries, 1.3 kilometres south of San Juan town centre and entered from Mystic Diving Services. What you drop onto is a sloping wall running from 5 metres to thirty-plus, with coral fish across the face and sand at the bottom of the reef. It is also a good night dive.
Where it is and how deep
9.1498° N, 123.5007° EPublished position for this site.
The dive
The entry is on foot from Mystic Diving Services, 1.3 kilometres south of San Juan town centre, and it is one of the most popular shore entries in Siquijor. What lies off it is a sloping wall rather than a vertical face, varying from 5 metres to thirty metres plus, so the same entry gives a shallow potter or a proper deep swim depending on the plan you set before getting wet.
Along the face there is a large area of coral fish, with large parrotfish, pufferfish, moray eels and clownfish among them, and the odd turtle passing through. At the bottom of the reef the coral gives way to a sandy area, and that is where a blue-spotted ray occasionally turns up, though divers report seeing it only rarely. The site is a good night dive too, with visibility logged between 10 and 20 metres through the year.
Marine life and season
- Sea turtles
- Stingrays
- Reef fish swarms
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Prime | Good | Good | Good | Good | Good | Prime | Prime |
Season follows Siquijor: November to May is the main season; from June to October the south-west monsoon moves the diving from the western walls to the sheltered north-east coast.
Know before you go
- The slope runs from 5 metres to thirty metres plus with no natural stopping point, so depth creep is the thing to watch on a shore dive with no boat overhead.
Questions divers ask
Where do you enter Belle's Wall?+
From the shore at Mystic Diving Services, 1.3 kilometres south of San Juan town centre. It is one of the most popular shore entries on the island.
Sources
- Belle's Wall - Scubago — Scubago (SSI)
- Belle's (OpenStreetMap node) — OpenStreetMap
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