(originally written 4.30.08)
Our fourth day in Boracay was also action packed and exciting! We met up with our intrepid guides from Bat Cave (see below) whose distant relative owned a boat and offered to take us out snorkling and island hopping for a (what ended up very large) fee.
The boat ride out to the best snorkling spot was fun in itself and one of the more fun bits up until then.
However, we soon arrived at the snorkling spot. I never figured out how to work the snorkel without sucking back gigantic lungfulls of ocean water to the point of vomiting. But just holding my breath and looking through the goggles was amazing enough.
The underwater world was absolutely amazing. There were millions of fish (especially when we threw some bread out) with hundreds of colors each. The coral was incredible, and I didn’t even notice all that there was to see in the coral until after I looked at the photos. Trying to describe it is pointless. Even the pictures don’t really do it justice, but here are some of my favorites.
I love the little black guy looking at the camera in that photo above, and the little sith lord fish with the interesting eye markings below.
I spent a lot of time following this guy around trying to get a good photo of him:
There are about 20 more of these, and all of them are really that amazing. You really should check out the whole photo set. It is a must see.
After swallowing enough ocean water, we decided to move on to another island called “Coral Cove” which was like a touristy little island with lots of little things to see. Mainly, we went for the caves. The caves were MUCH more accessible than Bat Cave, since they had little spiraling staircases down to them. At the bottom of both caves there were awesome little swimming pools with intense waves rolling in. We had to hold onto a rope to stop from being dashed against the rocks. Tons of fun!
After Coral Cove, we went to a private beach on Boracay called Lapus Lapus. When we asked the lady who ran our hotel, Casa Fiesta, which beach SHE would go to, she had strongly recommended this one because there are no tourists there. Lapus Lapus was nice and private, but a lot more “wild” than the other beaches we went to– lots of jetsum had washed on shore at this beach and some of the fun was just poking through all the weird international trash that had somehow made it to the shores of this beach.
One of the highlights of this beach were the local little kids who were there playing. As soon as our boat pulled up to shore, they immediately started climbing on the wave anchors and showing off by doing back flips and dives off of them. It was extremely cute.
The other major highlight of this beach was that I got to see my first real life, in-the-wild, jelly fish!
But as soon as I told Anne that I was getting some cool photos of a jellyfish, this happened:
Which was pretty wise, but I just tried to keep my distance from it.
When we finally arrived back to White Beach and our hotel, we were exhausted. For dinner I had some Hawaiin barbecue chicken, and Anne had an incomprehensible seafood dish with huge shrimp, clams, fish, and all sorts of other unrecognizable pieces of seafood.
Island hopping, lapus lapus, and boat riding photo set.
Snorkling photoset (really, you should look at all these!)
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