Fairways And Bluewater Boracay

... to see if there's more pubs along the way than our usual haunt! Just sat down and watched the sunset here for the first time too. We've always seemed to miss it so far. Very beautiful. Off to Oz on the 18th. Feels so weird to be leaving Asia!!! Still have quite a few more lazy days to go here though. Will update with more news when it happens.

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Adele and Lucy

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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 ...

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Caught a very small plane to Caticlan this morning form Manila. The plane was really fun for me but not so much for Lucy. A bit turbulence-y! We caught some nice views of Manila and some islands on the way though. Hopped straight on a small boat then for a few minute journey to Boracay. Oh and by the way the runway is very short in Caticlan!

When we got off on the pier we were approached by a lady who asked ...

... 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 ...

... s very clean, affordable (500P/night) and run by Joel Tejada. This Cottage is found at the southern part of White Beach, about a leisurely 15-20 minute walk from D'Mall and 30 minute walk from Boat Station 1 (further north on the Beach). I didn't mind the walk, but the Cottage was near a construction site where the workers got started around 7am every morning. In addition, after 10 pm ...

... to maintain consistently neutral buoyancy. Simon swam in a new direction on this dive in order to get a bigger picture of the area and we saw lots of soft corals, including sea whips, anemonefish [Nemo!] and other schooling fish. There was only a slight current for a short period of time on this dive. The visibility was surprisingly poor, at only about 15m in length. From the surface, however, one could still fully see the bottom, so it was still ...

Ziv! Tokrat se oglasava iz enega izmed najbolj turisticnih krajev na Filipinih, iz otoka Boracay z resnicno rajsko plazo. Najprej en hiter povratek na Palawan. Nekega jutra naju je zbudil glas, ki se je pogovarjal s hotelskim osebjem. "I saw I have slovenian couple for neighbours," je dejal glas. Kmalu sva izvedela, da je gospe ime Felicitas Radajic, Filipinka in vdova hrvaskega enigranta Anteja Radajica iz Splita. Gospa je uciteljica ...

... This gave us time to try one of the restaurants near the airport. One of the many resutarants beside the airport was open and breezy and some parts of the establishment was on stilts and sat on water teeming with fish. You can see rice paddies and it has a very native air to it. They offer Filipino as well as international dishes. We had a lazy brunch and even had time to check out ...

The journey from Moalboal to Boracay involved a cab, bus, cab, boat, two jeepney's, bus, mini van and another boat. The thing about the Philippines is that although places can be quite close together, if you are going from one island to another they often involve long boat trips and this particular journey had a 14 hour one. I didn't have a ticket for the boat and was forced to spend three hours in Cebu City going from travel agent to travel agent only to be told that they were sold out ...