i guess i ought to type everything out before i forget it...

day 1:
mmm, slept through most of the flight and got a really sore neck. there was a really cute marching band (who was not marching?) that greeted us as we got down from the plane tho. HAHAHA! and me and mama funny danced.

mmmm i don't remember much from the first day except the crocodile farm with the really huge crocodile bones and remains and the partial head of a sperm whale and holding the little baby croc that peed on me i think. ah well, sinasakal ko ata sya sa sobrang tense ko. hahahaha :P

oh and we also went to the butterfly farm with the annoying lady shaking the branches. biznitch.
and to iwahig with all the inmates just roaming around. :| hmmm.

and we ate in badjao seafront!!!! can you say NYORM? NYORM? NYORM??? nyorm nyorm nyorm...


day 2:
we went to the underground river! :] pretty beach there and i was still bleeding so i went emo-like and built a mound of sand somewhere and put a leaf on it and put RIP. and nicki was all. :| when she went to get me. the waves looked big and fun and i didn't want to be there while everyone else had wicked fun. nyarrr. drama drama drama happened..

anyway, gandaaaaaaaaaaa.underground river cave stuff was pretty damn cool. AND SCARY. in the total bleeding darkness, and i was holding the light and the water was i dont remember how many meters deep but DEEP. and the highest point of the mountain was like FTW SCARY I AM A SMALL INSIGNIFICANT BEING kind of thing because i have no idea how that shit formed.

ooooh and the outcropping with Jesus' face on it was pretty cool. even sandra was like woah. which says a lot. haha.

and there was a doctor person who died there in that beach just outside. around 10 years ago, at a doctor's convention and sina tita inday were there too! and swimming there just the day before he died. ftw.

and there were bayawaks and monkeys everywhere while we ate our lunch. (ate couldn't finish hers) and we brought our feet up on the table because there were like three or four which came around and went under our table and they are HUGE and EEWW and scary and fascinating and stuff. :D


day 3:
Honda Bay! so i went snorkelling. and hindi naman ako tinagusan on the way back so that's good. the fish feeding was crazy fun. i picked up a lot of sand dollars!! :]

there was this part where we snorkelled in the open sea. it wasn't that deep at the corals part but it was pretty daaaaamn scary you know.

and it was kind of sad and fun to see the corals recuperating and gaining life and coral in some parts! it didn't have to be that way. anyway mayor hagedorn (shit how do you spell that again) is the shiznit. more on that laaaater.

what is even more sad is Global Warming and how some of the corals were starting to bleach white. :[ now, that's something we can't really do a lot about anymore. :(

anyway, i have a funny tan line because i wore shorts all day. ewwww. hahahaha.


day 4:
dolphin watching!!!!!!!! is the shiznit.. went through kanas kanas (hhahaha) and then... peace! and many many pods of dolphins all around! spinner dolphins spinning spinning even the baby ones and they are jumping jumping out of the water and it was craaaaaazy! i especially loved it when they were beside the boat and i was like ZOMG they are right there. @_@

then we bought a yellow fin tuna fish from this guy in a neighboring bangka and it was like half the length of my body and around 10?? kg heavy. THAT IS ONE MEAN TUNA.

and then we ate sashimi on the boat. >:) nyom nyom nyom


day 5:
wala. went home! ate at kaya express for ate cam's grad thing. eugene couldnt come kasi wala raw kasama si lucy sa bahay nya. and i think lucy had too much fun over there with all the attention and little kiddies. hahaha. bakasyon rin sya. :)

saw my boyfriend and kissed him silly for being such a good boy and not being a needy attention hog. :]


ANYWAY MOVING ON TO MAYOR EDWARD S. HAGEDORN AND ECOTOURISM
the environmental sustainability projects there just BLOWS MY MIND. the waste disposal, the dual solar-wind panels for street lights are only put in spots on the roads where there are people living there. CAN YOU SAY BRILLIANT? no need for electric lines and dirty, wasteful energy.

God, can you imagine the amount of investment in those dual energy panels?! and shit, the city is so clean, the anti-littering ban is crazy.

the people of puerto LOVE hagedorn, and it's not hard at all to see why. im not a palaweno and I love him!

and SHIT, they don't support mining activities, they're not allowed to get bird's nest for soup, they limit and regulate tourism so that only certain groups can go at a time and it's not overcrowded... the local community BENEFITS from tourism. it's added income! shiiiit maaaaan.

who knew?! and the thing is they get so much support from IMF, WWF, etc because that's the global trend! GEEZ! if only other cities and towns and mayors could see that!

but then again, not a lot of big cities have tourism on their side. Haaaaaaay. Basta, all i know is that... im going back to palawan

El Nido to rock climb
Tubbataha reef
Tabon caves
Pawikans and dugong

when i learn to scuba dive. GOD IT'S BEAUTIFUL THERE.