Unknown to many is a natural wonder located in my beloved town of Candijay, Bohol. Just fifteen minutes away from the town proper is a spring with crystal blue waters so icy cold that one gets goosebumps at the first dip. It is a favorite getaway during summertime. Because of its shape like a big pan or wok, which is cawa in the dialect, this little paradise, hidden beneath the thickets and surrounded by steep walls of earth, got its appropriate name - Canawa Spring.

The underground source seems mysterious. I say mysterious because its depth has never been fathomed despite the many attempts of divers, Filipinos and foreigners alike. Not a few think it must be a blue hole - an underwater sinkhole. If it is so, then it could be deeper than the deepest blue hole in the world recorded by Wikipedia - the Dean's Blue Hole in the Bahamas with a depth of 663 feet. We will never know until a diver can officially claim to have fathomed it. 

Summertime or not, Canawa Spring lies waiting for you. Visit the place, go for a swim, and be mystified!

beneath the thickets
a mystifying atmosphere
blue canawa spring

oo0oo

taking a quick dip

into the blue spring water

shivering coldness