Home to some beautiful big green turtles, Sogod Bay’s Santa Sofia dive site also has some impressive hard corals and fish life.
Green Turtle, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
Santa Sofia is a 10 minute boat ride from Sogod Bay scuba resort. It’s between Max Climax and Tangka’an. The dive site famous for being home to green turtles.
School of zebrafish, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
The green turtles at Santa Sofia aren’t just your usual dinner plate sized turtles you see on the other dive sites. These green turtle are really big – nearly three quarters of a metre long. (Their size reminds me of Sauwandarek jetty in Indonesia’s Raja Ampat, which is also home to some impressively sized turtles).
Two lizardfish on the reef with diver, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
The turtles typically like to hang out on the coral carpet in the shallows and are usually motionless unless disturbed. The turtles are shallow enough to be easily seen by snorkellers too.
Hard corals and damselfish, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
From the shallows, Santa Sofia has a gentle slope down to a drop off and there are piles and piles of hard corals. There’s also some large sized elephant ear corals too.
Elephant’s ear coral, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
Green Turtle, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025, Santa Sofia, Sogod Bay, Philippines, March 2025 © [email protected]
