Doljo Wall

Doljo Wall runs along the eastern flank of Panglao Island facing the Cebu Strait, where a broad protected bay transitions to a descending reef slope and then a clean vertical wall that begins at around 12 metres and continues to beyond 40, studded with enormous sea fans and populated by unusually large Napoleon wrasse and bumphead parrotfish that graze in pairs along the shallower coral terraces at dawn. The protected east-facing aspect means Doljo is often diveable when the more exposed west-side sites are blown out during southwest monsoon, making it a reliable alternative in the June to September rainy season. The reef flat above the wall is a nursery for juvenile reef fish and a productive area for macro hunters — robust ghost pipefish appear seasonally here, and both painted frogfish and juvenile frogfish in their strikingly different colour phases turn up regularly in the coral rubble behind the crest.