The Blue Orchid Resort was
actually a dive resort, and since Em was old enough to do Bubblemaker (a try
diving thing for kids), she did. The dive master searched their equipment for
the smallest sizes of everything to put on Em. Even after all that searching
the gear was still too big. It was done in the pool and from what Emily tells
me, she enjoyed it. Like I said, the mouth piece was too large for her little
mouth and so she didn’t stay down for long.
During our time at the Blue Orchid we went on a boat trip. As with
most activities, it required a bright and early start. The first stop wasn’t a
stop exactly, you need to rearrange the letters to ‘spot’. WE SAW DOLPHINS! The
boatman took us quite far out, and we saw at least 100 dolphins! They went in
and out of the water so fast it was hard to get good photos.
After the amazement of dolphins, we thought nothing could impress
us, but at the next stop we saw 10 turtles (it was very funny, one of us would
say “Look, a turtle!” and then someone else would say “Yep, there’s three over
here” 😂), razor fish, barracudas and a sea snake! At
our last stop we were dropped off near our accom, and the current slowly
drifted us back to the resort.
“Hey {Insert Filipino name that I forgot here},
show these kids my chameleons”, and I’m just thinking, did he say CHAMELEONS!
So, the guy that was told to take us up to see the chameleons took
us up to see the chameleons, and they were very colourful, wonderful and
interestingful. We took them out of their enclosures and they clambered all
over our bodies. We even got to feed them crickets! If I could, I would have
stayed there all day with those chameleons!
On the last day of our 7-night stay, we woke up at 3.45 to go and
see, drumroll please! … WHALE SHARKS! 🐋 (I know this is not a whale shark
emoji, but there is none and this is the closest I could get). Fortunately for
us, our mode of transport was quite spacious and we were not cramped, even
though mum had to sit in the back.
There was a long line to see the whale sharks, the first line we
got in was to get our temperature taken and the second was to just get out. To
get out to see them, we got on a rowing boat with an outrigger. It was very
crowded and we weren’t allowed to go far from the boat or close to the whale
sharks. Still, seeing them was very cool. On our way back into shore, I glanced
into the water from the boat and saw, a turtle! #philipinesrocks
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