March 14th 2015 Boracay Island Day 11- Last few days

Down by the dock where I originally got off the boat at.

Looking through the coconut trees you can see the dock where everyone enters the island from.

The dock.

This is Rony from Israel. He had just arrived to Boracay with his Filipina girl friend and didn't know where the sights were or anything. I was the first foreigner he saw so he immediately came up to me asking me where there are any reasonable or cheaper places to stay but I told him if he didn't reserve ahead of time there was very little chance of getting a decently priced place. I told him all the tourists were down at White Beach as he seemed clueless about knowing anything about Boracay except for nice beaches.

Cargo boats coming in here with guys pulling stuff off of them onto all the hauling trucks to send to various places.

This house is built on a very solid foundation!

San Miguel is one of the popular beers here as the San Miguel trucks do their rounds to the various businesses dropping off more stock.

I saw these so I thought I would try all the different colours. 5% alcohol.

Andoks is now one of my favourite franchised restaurants as I have seen them around and was in one in Bacolod. I usually come here for lunch and dinner now.

Lots of rice with chicken and other veggies along with noodles. This came to roughly 200 pesos ($5 cdn). Good value and good meal.

This is where I walked the other day exploring the rest of the island. Didn't take very long. Just a few hours.

 Well it has been awhile since I last updated the blog. Fact is, I haven't done a lot except swimming down at the beach and stuff like that. Nothing to write home about. I had read about people spending a few days on Boracay and saying that it was not enough time and they want to come back so I book 13 days to ensure I had more than enough time. Personally I think 7 days would be enough time on Boracay Island unless you like suntanning and beach stuff. It is a small island and I have walked everywhere already and have 3 full days left as I will be leaving for iloilo city on Tuesday morning. 

Boracay is obviously a big tourist place and I see garbage trucks everywhere picking up garbage each morning and lots of signs with fines for littering. Too bad the rest of the Philippines was not like that. It is funny watching the filipinas work at McDonalds as they all sing to themselves when there is no one there (except me). One girl was singing "... and if that mockingbird don't sing, mamma's going to buy you a diamond ring...". Haven't heard that one since elementary school! Karaoke is very popular over here as you probably know.

Met a guy name Rony from Israeli the other day asking me where the cheap accommodations are located. I had walked down to the dock where I originally arrived at and he was there saying he is paying 1500 pesos per night. He was clueless about Boracay and had ZERO information about it. He must have just walked off the ferry dock as it was close by and was wondering why he wasn't seeing any foreigners around. I told him most get tricycles to White Beach where they have already reserved their accommodations far in advance. He had no information about Boracay and was mad that they didn't give it out off the boat. Anyway I told him most of the good beaches are up the island and he should head there instead of hanging out in a little Philippine village town.

There was a brown out (Power outage) yesterday morning that lasted half the day so with my fan and light not working I headed to White beach to swim as it is much closer than Bulabog beach. First thing I noticed when I got there was that there was LESS algae this time. Much less! so obviously those workers are going down the whole beach and cleaning the algae out. It was 90% gone. It is now much better to swim here. The water is much deeper than Bulabog Beach.

For lunch and dinner I am going to Andoks chicken restaurant which is a franchise and has good value as you can see in the second last photo. I am now making these photos bigger where they over hang the webpage.

I will probably post one last time on Tuesday morning before I head off Boracay Island and grab a bus to iloilo city.