#289 - The orange sands of Jomalig.
It was our second day in this island and we woke up early for the day's tour. After eating our breakfast which was fried eggs and fried fish as my my memory recalls, we hopped in to two motorcycles, one for my wife and me with the drivers which are also from the resort. The contract was $20 for each head to tour the island for a day.
I think the price is fare enough already, we get to see all the parts of the island which tourists frequently visit and at the same time giving livelihood to these locals.
So with that we rode the rocky rough roads and our first stop was this resort with sn entrance fee of fifty cents or 25 pesos. You can spend all day here if you want and just swim the rough water. But we were just here to make a stop and we will be swimming somewhere else where the water is calmer and a bit warmer.
It was still early at around seven thirty in the morning. The sea water is still cold plus the strong breeze coming from the sea. That time we also saw these two fishermen riding their small boat. I think they just stay in the shallow part and not far beyond where the current and waves are bigger.
Their small boat makes it good enough for just two of them. The boat does not have any engine so they use paddles to move away. The shorelines here is stony, there are big bricks of rocks in the shallow waters which is not a good spot for swimming but still can do for kids who just stay on the shores.
The water here is not deep I think it is just below the waist line. But further away it gets deeper.
The orange sands here are bigger than most sands I have seen before. The diameter of a sand is about a millimeter, that big 😅. That is why when you stepped on it, your weight pulls you deeper in the sand creating those big crater like prints instead of foot print. That's my wife standing as my model.😊
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Shot taken in Quezon, Philippines.
Image/s were shot using Panasonic Lumix ZS110. ~rex