Island Hopping in the Philippines
Yesterday, the internet here in Bogo City was very unstable. So, I used the downtime to work on some videos. I finally put together the highlights of my first Philippine Island Hopping outing. I don’t remember the name of the Island. We left from Mactan Island and headed to a nearby island. I no longer remember the name of the island that we visited.
The water was clear and the sand white. It was beautiful. We went with a group of expats and I had a grand time. What did I enjoy most though? I enjoyed most when Jessie and I slipped away from the group. I chuckle at Jessie as she, perhaps, for the first time asked “Were are you going?” Perhaps for the first time, I, the “Crazy Kano” went places I shouldn’t be going. Shouldn’t according to whom? I don’t think I went any place that I shouldn’t have. I do know by moving away from the crowd, I found the special part of the trip. I found the real beauty of the Island. Watch for yourself!
Island Hopping Video
For me, the scene looking out the rear of the boat, watching the shoreline disappear was unbelievably beautiful. Noisy but beautiful. Looking back at the video makes me really want to take up sailing but don’t see it in my future. Would be awesome though. To experience that when it is also quiet would be awesome!
However, the real beauty was found only when I left the throng of expats, walked down the beach, found the abandoned home and the Filipino children playing in the water. The children were taken with me and I was taken with them.
Launching Point of Our Island Hopping Trip
At the time and when watching the video, I noticed something though. Where are the teens and young adults? They are totally missing from this scene. Are they in their homes? Out fishing? Where are they? Not a single one. Okay, I’ll admit, I wondered where the pretty local Filipina were? I still don’t know the answer to that question.
While I was amused at Jessie asking where I was going, it foreshadowed much of our future. Me always going off to explore and she usually trying to real me back in. Its her shyness that cause her to do that. I hope though, should I be really about to head into something I shouldn’t, I’ll be able to tell the difference in her warnings. I’m looking forward to getting back out there. Back to wondering around. I have begun to venture out and it will expand. After all, its just my nature.
I told someone last night, I might just be crazy but, I’m stuck with me, so I guess I’ll just have to live with me. I’ve always been a bit of a loner. Not completely. I do like a few close friends. I like many but it usually works out to one or two at a time. Crowds, not so much. Well a crowd of Filipina would be nice. haha
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Hi Rusty, thanks for sharring your trip.It looked very invieting! My wife and I were in Cebu for only two days, but were planning to come back , take our time and go around a whole lot slower…….JC
Hey JC!
Thanks for saying hello.
I hope you stay in touch. You might want to check out my Cebu Experience site if you haven’t already.
so you think your a loner huh,they coined the term after me,i understand about what you said about jessie,my filipina g/f senses when i drift off [not physically] but i sometimes withdraw into another place and she knows very well when that happens and she also knows she can’t come,that causes her some distress,but you know what she understands me in ways that on one ever has,hmmm also she already knows why i often can’t sleep at night and be it 3 am shes up in a flash makes me coffee,then sits quietly watching me and doing her best to transcomunicate comfort to me
I haven’t been able to sleep at night all my life. I finally discovered that I’m not an insomniac, I’m just nocturnal. I can understand why some people think they are real life vampires though I don’t understand actually drinking blood. :) Other than that and the immortality, I’m vampire.
For me, there’s no reason I don’t sleep at night, its just the way I am made.
I am a loner but I have also been extremely lonely. Someone once told me, “you’re not a loner Rusty.” I replied with “I always thought I ways.” She told me “You are, when you have that special person.” Maybe she was right. My life became a barren wasteland for about seven years after that.
Its really kind of complicated. I’m certainly not one to seek out the company of guys, now women? I wouldn’t mind have a few dozen special someone’s. LOL :)
lol i understand and agree in part, my sleep problem is sometimes there’s too many people in my bed at night and their not of the invited kind
Yeah if that is a problem you have the wrong bedmates. haha