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Published: August 19th 2011
Guyam Island 1
Our final island hop!Dear Blog Readers,
Welcome to Part 6 of the Philippine Blogs! You can read the other parts by clicking the links below:
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 We got a lift in the morning down to General Luna and stopped at the market to buy some food for our lunch. We bought some pork chops, some small fishes and a swordfish along with some soy sauce, vinegar, onions and tomatoes. We were going island hopping so we hopped onto our little boat and our two boatmen started the engines and we were jetting off towards some islands in the distance.
The first island was called Naked Island. It’s actually just a sand-bar with little to no protection from the Sun except for one or two palm trees. The sand was the whitest I’d ever seen and the sea was so clear that you could see the almost untouched coral reefs metres below. After taking some photos we were on our way to island number two – Daco Island.
Daco was the largest of the islands. The beach is quite steep and suddenly appears. It seemed to catch our boatman off-guard too since we sort of crash landed
on the island and stumbled out like we’d been shipwrecked! As we bathed in the warm water, our boatmen took our lunch to a BBQ and prepared our food. They even included a bowl of octopus and mountains of rice for us to eat it all with. We sat in our little beach front hut and gorged ourselves on a simple rustic lunch and watched the world go by. It was blissful. We went around to the other side of the island and saw some locals preparing for the afternoon’s fishing before getting back on the boat and leaving for our third and final island.
Guyam Island was slightly smaller than Daco but just as spectacular. We relaxed and swam wishing that it would never end. Reluctantly we dragged ourselves back onto the boat and got back to the Boardwalk mid-afternoon. Our sun-kissed skin (by kiss, I mean, something not too dissimilar to a fire breathing dragon sneezing with us two metres away), couldn’t take much more so we spent the afternoon in the shade. The evening soon came and turned into a muggy affair bringing out all the horrible biting bugs that come with it. Our bodies were
a feasting ground but the thunder and lightning display illuminating the palm trees and beaches intermittently provided enough entertainment for us not to care!
Tink and Laura
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