Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Philippines: Day 10

Went to Bolinao (sp?) with the family. Went swimming at this place called "Rock Garden." You can walk a couple hundred feet out into the ocean and the water is still knee deep.





While swimming around a few of the local people saw us and invited us over their little floating boat thing and showed us some sea urchins. They were diving and getting some for us... to eat! At first I was pretty hesitant to try but did it anyways and I must say that it is really really good. Tastes kind of like oysters but a few times better.


Also saw a few starfishes crawling around.


and this little tiny jellyfish. There was a bigger one the size of my head I almost stepped on but I decided not to get it. I didnt want to risk getting stung.
And I finally got to try some street food. They called it here "isau-isau." My mom got kind of mad cause shes scared I was going to get sick and thankfully I didnt. Time to eat a whole lot more of these. Soooo good.




Later that night we drove over to this city called Sual to hop on this boat to take us across to this island where we were going to spend the night.





For dinner










The island at night was pretty cool. Swimming in warm water till midnight. BBQ-ing in the rain. Making bonfires. Telling stories. Reminded me a lot of LOST since all the lights were out. We were going to walk around the island at night but then we ended up getting chased by dogs and had to run into the water. haha.

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