I walked up our little side road to the main road - twice. Walked 2 kms.
It was heating up gradually - by breakfast it was 27 deg C. Forecast rain but there is barely a cloud in sight at this stage.
At the water’s edge, the boats were unloading their catch and the nets were being folded. Quite a bit of activity. On the second loop of my walk, almost everyone had gone. At one of the houses along the road, fish were being scaled. People were now getting onto motorbikes or taking a V-hire van (= tuk-tuks) heading off - to work probably. Chickens scuttled along garden paths.
After fluffing about, we grab a Grab to go to Alona Beach - Tourist Central. It is over a half hour drive to the southern tip of the island.
In a round-about way we ended up at Kslipayan Beach after a saunter down the main drag - which is where I was aiming for anyway.
Very short stroll to Alona Beach. Lovely beach, bars, dive shops, restaurants. We had a drink under an umbrella on the beach as the clouds rolled in and it tried to rain. Very relaxing.
Food prices are high like we would expect - but cheap by our standards!!
The next batch of cloud is rolling in. Wow, it rains hard now! We had already moved up to the bar under shelter and are having our lunch there. Phew! Negroni, 2 beers, hamburger and chips - $A30.
The rain eased off and we enjoyed walking along the remainder of the smallish beach which is book-ended by luxury resorts. In between are all manner of establishments with throngs of people. It is not yet the high season so I think this would be somewhat over-crowded then …
We walked into town back to where we had got out of our Grab this morning. Had the most delicious ice-cream from the Bohol Bee Farm which I read is an organic farm and uses only natural ingredients.
Did some walking about to (finally!) find a supermarket that sells our sort of food - cereal, yoghurt and milk - for brekkie tomorrow as we are ‘over’ the breakfasts at the place we are staying.
We had an early ‘dinner’ if you could call it that as the heavens opened and we grabbed a Grab which drove through roads awash with water. 40 mins for 20 kms. Traffic everywhere!
No sunset tonight but still pretty with the cloud formations.
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