Blueapple13: Another Day in Paradise

Coron trip
[Feb.26-28, 2013]

Pass Island is one of the many white sand beach islands of Coron. It's actually 2 hours from the mainland.

Without a doubt, it was worth the trip. How we got here instead of Banana Island and Malcapuya Island? Our misfortune (refer to previous post) started early in our second day for island hopping, yet, somehow, it had gotten worse. Our guide and boatman informed us that there was no way they could take us to either Banana or Malcapuya island because of the strong, huge waves. Bringing guests there would be too risky at this time. So my dreams of frolicking on the white sand beaches of both islands just disappeared. After all the talking, we agreed to settle for Coron Loop tour. That was all we could manage with the time we have left. However, to appease us, our guide said we can to go to another white sand beach in Pass Island but it was 2 hours away. After weighing our options, time management and all that, it boiled down to: If we do not go to Pass Island, we do not have food to eat for lunch. What the??!!!

Backtrack to 8AM this morning when we arrived at the port... Our guide met us and said that a couple will be sharing the boat with us. We protested, calmly, of course. When we availed of our tour package, we made it very clear that we would like to hire an exclusive boat just for my friend and I. Our contact person for this tour said he will heed our request provided that we paid extra (meaning additional 1k each). And yes we agreed and paid. The only reason we wanted the boat to ourselves is so that we can have control over the places we wanted to visit at our own time and pace. We only had this day to discover the islands of Coron and we'll be leaving for Cebu the next day. That's that, we were not against sharing, mind you. Hehe! So after we explained this to our guide, he said okay we will arrange another boat for you. The couple who was already settled on the first boat immediately left while we waited at the port for ours. And just like that, our food also sailed away with them. Apparently they have prepared all the food and utensils on the boat thinking that we were all going to be on the same trip. But we're not, so here we are with no food. We just finished our trekking and swimming at Kayangan Lake and it was just about lunch time. We were so hungry. What we have left were peanuts, some mLs of royal softdrink and some cookies. Now, it turns out, that the couple was going to spend the entire day at Pass Island. So, for the sake of our famished tummies and for the sake of survival at sea, to Pass Island we go!

After what seemed like hours and hours of travel, we finally arrived. Thank God this little island paradise was so worth the trip! Heaven on earth as they say. A perfect retreat.

Guests were lying on the sand, relaxing, clearing their minds and dozing off with the cool sea breeze around.

Right after we practically devoured our seafood feast at around 2pm, we're off to swimming and snorkeling!

This is me, pausing for a moment to take all of this in and keeping a photographic memory of Pass Island.

But of course, there's always a camera. Hope you enjoy the rest of our photos!

This photo only means one thing, we just have to go. Letting go of a beautiful thing is always difficult, but we just have to or else we will face strong currents if we travel by nightfall.