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Find Your Adventure âîâ�?Å©Swim with Whale Sharks of the Philippine Islands
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Whale Watching in the Phillipines
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Snorkel and swim with Whale Sharks.
Join us for an exciting trip to experience the wonder of swimming with the world's largest shark. There are only a few locations in the world where Whale Sharks are known to return reliably each year. The bay of the small village of Donsol in the Philippine Islands is one of those locations.
Donsol is a small remote, coastal fishing town, 350 miles from Manila, on the southwest coast of Luzon in the Philippines. It is visited by Whale Sharks each year from January until June. The local name for the sharks is Butanding. Of course the local fishermen were aware of them for years, but didn't realize what an opportunity they presented to bring tourist dollars to the area. A team of foreign divers publicized the whale sharks here for the first time in year 1998.
About Jones Adventures
Jones Adventures & Baja Jones Adventures were started because of Keith's desire to be near the gray whales. One or two weeks wasn't enough. We began taking small groups to Baja California to get close to the gray whales in 1995, as Baja Jones Adventures. Since then, as Jones Adventures our small group…
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