Archive for Boracay

Hacienda Maria Part 2: The Kawa Pots

We’re at Hacienda Maria on the island of Panay in the Philippines, our cave adventures complete. Back at the veranda, the family has cooked us lunch – rice, pork soup, adobo chicken (stewed in soy, garlic and vinegar), what looks and tastes like baked mackerel steaks, and Gold Eagle beer. We’re the only visitors today, […]

Boracay Island: From Polluted to Pristine

October 19, our second full day on the “White Beach” of Boracay in the Philippines, and such variations of blue! The turquoise sea, the smoky blue gray mountains, skies in silver, eggshell and azure. Yesterday evening on the beach a policeman climbed stairs to a shrine on the shore to the Blessed Virgin, and lit […]

Suzette Visits Boracay, The Philippines, 10/18/2019

Our first full day in Boracay, and we will tour the island by boat. The “White Beach” in front of our hotel, The Discovery Shores, is the most beautiful, long stretch of powder fine white sand I’ve ever seen, sand that is is so firm your feet don’t sink into it at all. Off we […]