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| Talk about a tropical getaway - Virgin island off Bantayan Island |
Day two on Santa Fe started with seeing the dawn break on the horizon accompanied by a friendly dog. It would be much later that we'll find out that the folks here go out to sea late, around 9-10am. Which explains why there was not much fishing action to shoot at sunrise. Getting my feet soaked shooting the locals scouring the shallows for shells on Bantayan Island the night before made my right big toe swollen. It will keep me from swimming all trip long but not from wandering about and shooting.We would be spending the middle of the day on Virgin island, about 30 minutes by pumpboat from here. Maybe the name fooled me a bit, leading me into thinking it was an uninhabited island. It was not. It was, however, a white patch that stood out from a rather overcast day coming from the sea. By mid-afternoon, the sun shone and made the white sand blindingly white. While the rest of the Oceana team snorkeled the clear, turquoise waters, I roamed around and chased a dog to the other side of the beach where the boats moor and no tourist wander to, save me, Cris (Yabes) and fellow photographer and best buddy, Ferdz aka Ironwulf.
