April 5th 2015 Bohol Island Day 4- Continuing around the island of Bohol

Where I drove on Bohol today. Headed to the east side of the Island to Anda and then continued north and around the island.

Trees growing out of the ocean.

 

I was lost at this point. I took a dirt road and then a trail and then came to this small cement bridge with huts on the other side.

 

Back on the main road heading to the town of Ubay.

This is buffalo's milk that was delicious that I had in Ubay. It was nice and cold.

This building was in the town of Talibon.

Another rice field. They are everywhere on the island of Bohol.

After Anda Beach I continued heading around the island heading east and the road turned into a dirt road and then into a trail and then into a rocky and rough terrain that was not meant for a scooter but more for a dirt bike and I saw no vehicles on the road and no people and no buildings so thought it might not take me around the island and was worried about running out of gas in the middle of nowhere as the scooter only holds 2 liters of gas so I turned around and headed back to Anda and then to Guindulman and from there continued to head north (See map). It is funny but this map here shows the road ending in Anda and my LP map showed the road continuing around the coastline and hooking up with the other main road to take me to Ubay. The paved road ended in Anda.

Once I got to Ubay I was low on gas again and needed to find a gas station. The town was small and it seemed I was leaving the town and still no sight of a gas station so I pulled into a place to ask where a gas station was when I see this German guy walking out of the store and I ask him where I can find a gas station and he tells me and sees me walking into the little store and asks if I have time to sit down and have a little talk and I said sure that my butt is killing me from sitting on that scooter for 4 hours and I want a drink. He tells me this place serves the best milk as it is buffalos milk so I buy a regular buffalo milk and a chocolate buffalo milk for 80 pesos each in one liter bottles (see photo). He said that the owners have a farm just down the road. It was awesome and the best milk I have had since I have been in the Philippines. 

He told me he is 50 years old and has been living in the Philippines for 6 years off and on due to work in Germany as a ship builder and spends the winters in the Philippines. Says he has been on Bohol for over a year and had a filipina girlfriend for a few years but said he had enough of her as they always fought and she was asking for money for her family too much. He also said "Never again!". I don't think he meets many expats here as he didn't even know what an expat (ex-patriot) is. So I told him and said it is easy to hook up with expats anywhere in the world as they usually set up online. I could tell by the way he asked me if we could have a short talk that he was in need of conversing with another westerner who thought like him as oppose to filipinos. 

After I finished my milks we said good bye and I headed on my way. He thought it would take me all day to get back to Tagbilaran but it only took me 3 hours from Ubay but then again I drive fast usually passing buses and other vehicles on the road. 80km/h all the way! I now drive like a filipino passing cars going around corners into oncoming traffic and I just honk my scooter horn signalling oncoming buses and other big vehicles to pull to the side of the road to let me pass. HAHA just kidding! 

I didn't spend a lot of time in the towns I passed through driving along the coast of Bohol. I got to another town called Inabanga and they had another CHECK POINT set up but it wasn't police but the military. The guy pointed at me to pull over which I did. He asked for my drivers licence so I give him my Canadian drivers licence and he looks at it and asks me "Is this an international drivers licence?" and I lied and say "Yes it is!". 

Well he looks at my Canadian drivers licence more carefully examing it for a few minutes reading everything and I thought he was going to catch me and say "This is NOT an international drivers licence and you are driving illegally here" but he didn't and he read BRITISH COLUMBIA (my province) on my Canadian drivers licence and said "So.. you are British" and I didn't say anything because I didn't want him examining the drivers licence anymore than he was. He asked for my registration and I couldn't find it and I told him it was a rental from the hotel and he said that is ok and let me go. There were about 7 military guys dressed in military camouflage fatigues and one guy was taking pictures of me while the other guy read my drivers licence and they all had machine guns strapped to them. It seemed like martial law or something so I said "So why are there so many check points on Bohol. I haven't seen any in the Philippines until I got to Bohol" and another guy said "It is because it is Holy Week where we bump up security for the holidays". 

I was in a rush to get home so I continued doing 80km/h which was maximum on this scooter or I would be going faster. I was going so fast that I went through another CHECK POINT but so did the car in front of me and the police there didn't seem to care or shout at me. They were probably thinking "Fucken tourists!!". 

I got back to the hotel at around 4:30pm.