Tuesday 30th September
The tricycles in
Coron make up about 90% of the traffic. There are a few motorbikes, and VERY
few cars. We went walking today, because
there was a light drizzle and it was therefore not too exhaustingly hot. So…no trikes for us. But I did manage to spend a lot of time
observing the traffic, and the wonderful names emblazoned on the
tricycles. My favourites today were:
DOUBLE ‘D’
Shapely Meek
Saint Monique
(nobody in my family is in the least saintly
– my sister Monique included)
We were able to
walk around the steeper back street – thank you, light drizzle – and we found,
to our astonishment, an Austrian resort. My other sister Jacqui (also not
saintly, although much loved,) was in Vienna last week, and her Facebook photos
are glorious. But it could not be more
completely different from Coron if it tried!
We were so gobsmacked I neglected to take a photo of the shining
gleaming bright red Porsche parked in the driveway… Can you imagine a shiny new
Porsche driving around the narrow bumpy roads of Busuanga, full of tricycles,
children, motorbikes, chickens, dogs, potholes??
One of our
missions for he day was to get our tickets from Busuanga to Manila – the vital
first leg of our journey home next month.
The internet was very much Go/Slow today so we set off to find a travel
agent. Pete found a very helpful and
efficient young bloke while I sat outside and looked at…tricylces…
Coron is lovely,
and very interesting, but it is NOT a shopping Mecca. This is very good for my bank account… Pete
finds much to fascinate him in the shops.
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| One of the eight local hardware stores |
Me…not so much…
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| A local boutique on the main street |
The food here, on
the other hand, is just amazing. I have
eaten seafood each time we have been out to lunch or dinner and it has been
invariably delicious.
Today I had fish
and chips which was so fresh and so perfectly cooked I nearly cried. (I have been craving fish & chips after
many months of nasi goreng…) Not only
delicious but…cheap. We were in a very stylish
little café and my meal was $4.56…
In the back
streets we found some beautiful houses made of bamboo.
And a fence made
of enormous slabs of wood.
This house is the
Philippines Red Cross Centre.
When we got back
to 2XS I wanted to go and have a big long sleep – how pathetic is that! Instead I went for a big long swim, about
200 metres from the boat, out to a reef.
200 metres as the crow flies… I never swim in a straight line – somehow
I zigzag madly, adding much to the distance covered. And this afternoon the current was quite
strong so I had to fight against it to get
where I wanted. But it was worth
it! This nearby reef is lovely, with
some big bommies, and quite a large patch of different coral with many small
fish. This was much better than an
afternoon nap!
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The fisherman in
his little outrigger - just visible in this photo - kept an eye on me as I swam around the reef near his boat.
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In the late
afternoon – a lovely dog coming home with his crew…
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