Day Five + Six – Boracay Island

Feeling somewhat relieved from the food sickness we incurred the day previous, we decided to actually make the most of our time on an exotic island in the Philippines. I didn’t mention that on the second day we were on Boracay Island we signed up for a day tour of surrounding reefs, islands and other points of interest on Boracay. The problem was that we were sick the next day when we were due to go out, so one of my ventures (one of three) that day was to inform the tour guides that we would be joining them the day after, which I did. And so, on that beautiful day we got up at an reasonable hour and decided on a hearty breakfast that would see us through the day! On the way to Boat Station 3 after breakfast we knew what we had to do, we bought touristy wide brimmed hats and they were glorious.. so very very epicly glorious.

Sunnies and a nice straw hat to boot!

Then we were on the boat, if you can call it that and on our way to our first point place thing location, Crystal Cove Island, where we went through a few caves and caverns and whatnot. I’ll say it was cool because it simply was. No further explanation necessary.

Next stop was food, on the other side of Boracay Island. The tour guides had organized a variant of a BBQ buffet which was awesome because they had stack seafoods and kebabs and all sorts of random weird looking foods.  After that we went off near Crocodile Island where we did some snorkeling, but wait wait wait that wasn’t the first instance of snorkeling. Our first stop was actually an area of water that happened to have some coral reefs deep below the water, we swam around there for a lil bit before going to Crystal Cove. But carrying on, the best without a doubt snorkeling experience we had at Boracay was the spot near Crocodile Island (the island kinda looks like a crocodile from the side) – they gave us bits of bread for the fish and we were so close to the bottom of the reef that we were constantly surrounded by fishies! Me and Ange stayed in the water the entire time swimming with the fishies and eventually we were the only ones that were left in the water. Loved it!

Snorkeling with the fishies!

After that fishy related experience we went ALL the way around the island to an abandoned beach on the northern part of Boracay and while the tour group checked out what looked to be a hole in the ground, myself and Ange bought a KitKat ice cream (you read correctly) each and sat down next to the face of a cliff to get a little reading in. After which, we eventually returned back to Boat Station 3 quiet satisfied with ourselves.

Dinner was German food which Ange excitedly ordered.

I wish I made sandcastles for a living.

Ok, next day. Next day waaaasss.. I don’t think we did anything significant on that day, as I recall we had to move out of our hut and into another place that was a little bit closer to the beach.  During the afternoon we bought a massive tub of ice cream and ate it while watching the sun set and reading our books again before eating German food AGAIN. That night, we walked along the beach until we found some fire dancing, I guess to me fire dancing is random dancing with fire sticks which I can say I’ve now seen. Eventually, we hit up a bar on the beach and got a drink and played some pool while laughing at the pathetic karaoke attempts from some of the foreigners. The Philippines won’t be challenging Japan anytime soon on the karaoke front. ^^ On the return to our accommodation we came across this awesomely detailed sand castle illuminated by light – we were able to get our names written in it and get some photos. Epicness caught on camera.