Boracay the Beautiful

Imagine with me right now standing on the soft sand beach of Boracay with the warm island breeze caressing your face.  You take off your flip flops to feel the softness of the sand and the blue salt water rushing over your feet.

          The sun is setting over the ocean and the silhouette of sailboats dot the horizon and the waves shimmer in the colorful display of the suns last rays.  

        As you turn to walk down the way you look inland to see towering palm trees lazily swaying in the soft breeze and the lights along the beach light up the night's darkness.  

       Couples walk by hand in hand and while vendors try to strike up a deal and give you "a good price" on a pair of sunglasses that you really don't want right now.  

       Ah! Bliss! The kind that only happens on a visit to Boracay.  The people friendly and not afraid to get brown.  The international foods and tons of activities to... and so little time.

Here are some pictures from our short 2nd Honeymoon.  Thought you would enjoy it as much as we did.  Although we regret that you can't imagine quite fully what it was like.  The scenery was breathtaking and the various activities we did together enduring memories.

Our excitement heightened when we started to see the edge of the island. Caticlan would only be maybe 5 minutes away.  The lush green jungle like forests and sandy coast lines looked mysterious in the fog.  The water was so blue and the tree were so green.  

When we got to Caticlan, our guide from the Boracay Beach Club met us at the airport and took us on  a boat over to Boracay and then over to the Resort. The people were sooo friendly. Here is what our first night looked like.  Isn't it beautiful!

This was our first day on the beach. The sky and water was the bluest we had ever seen.  Talk about a sunny hot day... This was a sunny hot day! We burned! Even Nessie did!  But we had so much fun swimming in the ocean and sitting on the beach just far enough in the water so the waves would wash sparkling white sand onto our legs.  Ahhh! It was so refreshing.   Wish you all could have been there!

Here is Robert and I on ATV's going up to get the mountain top experience of the island.  It was really adventurous and the scenery was amazing.

This is the halfway point up the mountain.

This here is Ian.  He was our guide from the resort we stayed at.  He took us around everywhere!

At the top of the mountain, it is privately owned by a family who owns lots of different animals from off the island.  Here is their pet monkey that was there to greet us.  Mirror mirror... Tell me who is the fairest one of all.  Isn't he cute.  He was the size of a kitten.

Ian took a picture of us at the look out point. You could see all around the island. All 7 kms of it! Like we said, "the water was very blue!" Yeah! We really wished you all could have been there with us!

After our adventure up the mountain  we took a casual stroll back to the resort along the beach. This is what it looked like.  And there weren't lots of people on the beach!

Low tide... Sunset... How beautiful!

Talk about a romantic walk along the beach! This was very romantic! The sunset... you know... "It's soooo romantic"

I can't figure out how to rotate the pictures! If anyone knows how let me know :)

Here are the rest of the pictures from our trip.

After horse back riding, we went island hopping!

On our way to Crystal Cove Island

This was the boat we travelled from island to island on.  We also went snorkling at crocodile island but we didn't get any pictures really from it.  We went again at Matabunkay with the Senior Class at the end of the trip.  That was much funner.

Flaming Mango at Cyma's Greek restaurant! 

We thought it was very impressed... It tasted really good too.

Here is the resort we stayed at. We recommend Boracay Beach Club to anyone.  It was clean, nicely decorated, had friendly staff and good food.

And so concludes this update which is long past when it should have been done.  But better late than never!