February 22nd 2015 Guimaras Island- Day 2 Raymen Resort

This morning as I left the Monastery, my trike driver got 1 liter of gas.

A beached whale washed up ashore?

There is 3-4 resorts which hog this 100 meter stretch of a sandy beach. Each resort has a net with floating balls for the swimming perimeter. I was wondering why it was all netted. To keep sharks from entering where the people swim?? haha.

Another resort accommodations going up. It is Sunday today and saw no construction workers so it is probably there one day off.

Up the road 1km is another resort going in. These resorts are definitely little money makers because there are only a few of them and they are packed with people.

As I walked down this other road I was hearing a strange sound and thought it was a young kid but it was this goat. I guess a young goat is a KID!! There were a few of them on the side of the road just grazing.

As I continued down this road I knew I was getting close to the beach where there were no resorts yet.

Not really a sandy beach but a little harbour where boats were anchored at.

My PAD on the beach! Economy class on cheapskates row.

My Room with a fan.

Bathroom.

In the morning I packed my bag at the Monastery at around 11am after I had breakfast. I noticed they let their chickens run loose on the grounds and could tell I was eating FREE RANGE EGGS as the yolks were orange. Very good! Of course I was trying to check out and there was no one around again! There was a filipino woman also looking for someone at this monastery and then finally I ran into the father and told him I wanted to pay up and leave. As he was calculating what I owe at his desk I heard him say "ok you had the room 350 pesos and you had 2 dinners that is 250 pesos and um... that will be 420 pesos". I didn't understand his math but I didn't argue with the father and gave him 420 pesos. Maybe math wasn't his strongest subject haha.

I grabbed a trike outside the Monastery and had to haggle 50 pesos off his asking price and off we went. I got to RAYMEN RESORTS where I had a reservation for today but it was 11:30am and still a little early as check in time is 2pm so I left my bag with them and went for a walk around.

At 2pm I got back and checked into my room which was in a little nipa hut on the beach. There were a lot of filipinos at this place and they had big grills that people could cook their own food outside and I noticed the smoke was all going towards my nipa hut room. No wonder I got a deal on that room! So once I settled in I headed to the beach and swam for a couple hours. It was so nice. I have been in the Philippines for 22 days and this is the first time I have been to a sandy beach! It was nice to relax and enjoy the nice temperature of the water. 

I am going to book a couple more nights here as I like it and they do have wifi (Monastery had no wifi or internet connection). They also have brewed coffee so I am right at home here. As I lounged in the ocean I was thinking if I could get use to doing this all the time. I think I could.