Shells, Sea grass and Surfing

The next day we went to another beach that had bigger waves.  Siargao is a popular surf spot and my friend wanted to take a crash course on surfing... and it was a real "crash" course for her since she ended up crashing into the sea :D

I had no plans of joining her so I spent the day walking on the shore where I saw a lot of cool things.

Sea grass!

 

Beautiful orange coral

Sea urchin shell

 

and a boat with a dog on board :)

On our way back we saw rows of coconut shells drying out in the sun.  I always see this in the provinces but just recently found out that it was for making copra.

It was almost dark when we got back to the resort.  It was really quiet since we were the only guests at that time which was nice and a bit freaky.  Freaky since I kept thinking of aswangs.  LOL.  Just kidding on the aswang of course.

I watched the fishermen bring in their catch that night.  I found it really strange that they only caught one kind of fish. 

The nets were filled with these tiny blue fish.  Pretty amazing, huh? :)

Sun, Sand, Sea and Squid

I'm missing Siargao right now.  Siargao Island is about 2 hours away by boat from Surigao.

We stayed at a lovely and very peaceful resort called Danjug.

The beach is just a few steps away.  I spent hours just looking out and listening to the waves.

Watched the fishermen bring in the catch of the day...

which was a whole bucket of squid and octopus!

The cook prepared grilled squid

squid kilawin (raw squid cooked in vinegar)

and monggo with octopus for our lunch.

we had fresh buko juice too! Yum!

After lunch I noticed that the cook left our clean plates out under the sun to dry! Sun dried plates! Very cool :)