Logon Beach

Logon Beach is the working landing point for Malapascua — the beach where bancas load divers headed out to Monad Shoal, one of the few places in the world where thresher sharks surface reliably enough to dive for them. The island’s economy runs almost entirely on that dive traffic now, a shift from the fishing village Malapascua was before international divers started arriving in numbers in the 1990s. Typhoon Haiyan flattened much of this shoreline in 2013; what stands today — the beachfront cafes, the dive shops, the cottages — is largely rebuilt, not original.

• Early morning is when the dive boats load for Monad Shoal — worth watching even if you’re not diving that day.
• Beachfront cafes along Logon serve breakfast with a direct view of the boat traffic.
• Local fishing bancas still return to this stretch in the late afternoon, working the same shoreline as the dive operators.

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