Crown Regency Boracay

Hey just in case anyone thinks we've neglected the blog there is honestly nothing to report! The weather is fab every day. We go out to the pub every second night and spend the following day too hungover to do much! The beach here is the most beautiful I've ever seen. We've met some interesting people. A big gang of Americans that live in Guam working as lawyers and marine biologists ...

Hey all!
Wow Boracay is beautiful. It's real paradise. Miles of white sand and blue sea. I love it. Cheap jewellery, bikinis and rum. Doesn't get much better! Except of course, you guys aren't here! Had a great night out! Sipping rum and coke by our room, when we were invited to join the owner and staff to eat yummy banana cakes stoln from a nearby hotel. They were lovely crowd ...

... view,,the white sand beach,,foods and a lots of foods,,people are also very nice,,we did love also the shows of every hotels from singing english and tagalog songs.
Shopping is not a problem there you can go to D'mall and find all that you need..And for seafoods lovers you have the talipapa where you can choose,barge and barge then when you succeed to pay what you want they will cook it for you the way you want it.

... together. Four of those were dive masters so they went off on their own. Then there was Edwin (our instructor), two guys training to be dive masters and Alan and me. We were allowed to swim unaided with Edwin advising us now and then to equalize (this prevents bursting ear drums and such), to swim down further and so on. The sea was very choppy and once we were down there was a slight current to swim against but it was fantastic down there. We went down about 12 meters and saw ...

... And don't fall out of the chair in a wave. Did I say it gets dark at 6:30 on the dot? The sunset lasts about 2 minutes, and dusk about 10. Darkness comes quickly. The ride to Carabao takes about 1 and a half hours, so most of it was in complete darkness and 3 or 4 foot waves. I kept saying to Manda, "Mom would Love this ! She'd be Very Quiet !" (Kay really likes ocean waves and her silence shouts when she is scared or ...

Well it's raining in paradise... I was hoping to rent a bike today and cycle around this tiny island and explore it further. But it looks like Mother Nature's imposing a day of rest to help me kick this lingering cough that's followed me since early December... BOOO. I stayed at Trafalgar Cottages, found near the old D'Talipapa Market by Boat Station 3, which burned down a few years back ...

... power nap before our 4:30PM dive at Crocodile Island. This time I got 43 reefs points, all with Caroline's photographic help of course!! Simon led the transect lines again and I discovered that my console was missing its' compass. Simon would tell me each heading using his fingers to show the numbers underwater. I decided to keep the line in my hand throughout the dive, instead of laying it down to write. I found that that saved time and I was ...

... may have pooh-pood this place on the grounds of our uppity left-leaning eco-conscious travel snobbery. But the second our toes touch the delightfully flaky, sugar-white sand and we ease our out-of-shape, travel weary beluga-like bodies into the soothing crystal clear water, we're converted. This place is grand. We find a resort we like. We stay. We enjoy. Life is good.

Finally made it to the Panoly Port in Caticlan and we got off the van breathing the cool, clean breeze thankfully as we've been cramped in the van for quite some time. My daughter was excited to be onboard a boat, her first ever trip on such a kind of transportation. We were all assisted as we got on board and given life jackets to wear for safety. Our colleagues who ...

... One part of the book really made me laugh. There is a warning about the most southerly island of Mindanao as there is a militant islamic group determined to create a break away state. As this country is predominantly christian these disaffected muslims have decided that they don't want to play anymore and are going home. This hasn't sat to well in Manilla and thus a mini civil war has been raging in this island for the last few years with many kidnappings and bombs and so on. It is ...