Thursday, June 10, 2010

Island Hopping at Mactan


 I had a wonderful, full-blast adventure last Sunday. A long lost high school friend invited me to join their planned island hopping trip along different islands offshore Mactan mainland.


 Most of the islands were already inhabited by natives and (sad to say) were highly commercialized. You have to pay a quite unreasonable amount once you set your foot on their territorial waters.










We went to Hilutongan, Nalusuan, Kawhagan (home of famous sand bar) and Olango islands. When we reach Talima, our last point and was still part of Olango island, we were surprised to know that it now offers a themed children park along its seashore.


The best part of each island visit is seeing so many species of fish underwater. I felt so excited whenever I get to see various schools of fish. They swim freely unmindful of unwanted visitors like me. Someone instructed not to catch them and not to throw our garbage on the water, to which I agree. I feel it is imperative to preserve them and keep them as clean as possible.

Too bad we don't have an underwater camera. How I wish I could capture them using a camera. They would really look great in pictures. Pictures of them would be very lively and colorful. Speaking of colors, I even saw a boat painted in my childhoold favorite color, pink.



The whole experience was nice and memorable.
At some point, my imagination flew again and dreamed of having an underwater wedding
then a honeymoon in an isolated island.
Whew! So much for impossible dreams...

When our group decided to go back to the city, the sun already started going down...

The sun may go down everyday, but my hopes and dreams of tomorrow will remain... ;')