Island Hoppin,Philippines

Today we woke up and headed out on an island hopping tour. Our first stop was big lagoon, with beautiful clear water. Then, we headed to secret lagoon, where you had to slide through a window like rock opening to get to the lagoon inside. After, we headed to a popular snorkeling area, where we saw many colorful fish, huge neon colored clams, gigantic blue starfish, sea urchins and beautiful coral.

It was insane, at one point, I was stationary snorkeling and a school of hundreds of small fish swam by me, all I could see was this cloud of fish shimmering by. We got back on the boat and headed to another snorkeling spot for almost an hour and had lunch on the beach.

After that we headed to small lagoon, where we had to snorkel about 15 minutes, then dive down in the water and slip through a small keyhole opening to the small lagoon inside. Then, we snorkeled over to a water cave, where you had to pull yourself up onto some rocks, swing your legs over and slide back down into the water. Once inside it was really dark, and the water was eerily colder than the outside water temperature. The only light was coming from a small hole opening in the cave a few feet up.

When we were heading back to our boat, another girl and I swam ahead of the group, and encountered some territorial small fish that nipped at our legs and toes. We quickly got back on the boat, and waited for the rest of the group to catch up. After a 7 hour island hopping tour, the boat took us back to the mainland.

For dinner we grabbed some local Filipino food, red horse beers, and hung out with the owners of our guesthouse for a bit. We spent late night staring at the stars and listening to the waves in the “nests.”