20th February - the wonders of FB - Coron (Busuanga)

Friday 20^th February 2015

Yet another beautiful Coron sunset 

Facebook thus far has been a blessing.  I have re-connected with my Dutch cousins – Aad in Gouda (Holland), Liesbeth in Lincoln (UK,) Carel, her twin brother, in Reading, Pennsylvania.  I haven’t seen or heard from them, bar the odd very rare aerogramme (those were the days – do aerogrammes still exist??)

Last time I saw Carel, he looked like this…

And now here he is, prosperous, retired from selling real estate, and – sailing!

But now I am kept up to date, more or less, with their lives.  I am also able to see what many of our rallyfriends are now up to.  It seems that most of them are still in the Langkawi-Thailand area, happily spending time at Rebak Marina, or gasping at the beauty and lunatic tourism of Koh Phi Phi Don.

Coron from 2XS

We are staying in Coron for a few more days, and may do a circumnavigation of Busuanga Island tomorrow – it’s not very far, and we will be able to go to the safari park and see giraffes and zebras… Wildly out of place, but…I love giraffes and zebras!

They can fit a lot of people in one big blue dinghy

It is very busy here in the morning, and again in the late afternoon.  Dozens of bankas (the local sturdy outrigger boats) zooming in and out of the harbor, loaded with humans, dive tanks, life jackets.  They come very close to 2XS – maybe we are part of the tourist experience??