this time, though, only the outrigger boats were docking at the pier. the bigger stuff was all at the new pier.
once off the boat (having decided to let the crowd disembark first), i made my way to the local SiKat ticketing booth to reconfirm the return (to make sure we had reserved seats on the bus back, mostly). lo and behold! ticket maiden is missing. now, i could have hung around, but the instant we got off the boat, we descended into a cacophony of tricycle drivers all making offers to spirit us away to wherever we needed to go.
this was disturbing what little equilibrium i had at the moment, made all the worse by thinking about something that was said at the manila ticket counter -- that we could rent a multicab (kinda a small microvan converted to semi-jeepney configuration) for 150 pesos. the tricyclers were all offering 150 per trike and that could only take four at the most (and there were seven of us).
we therefore made our way to the main road a short walk away, and i inquired of a multicab parked by the waiting shed for jeepneys and the like. 300 pesos.
predators all of them!
now, it just so happened that there were trikes near the shed, and they offered 100 per trike -- so that we took.
after an unknown period of time (i wasn't paying attention, actually), we motored by the last access roads to white beach, and began to labor up the hill that separated white beach from the beaches beyond. um. good exercise, if we were to walk it, but i doubt that we'd ever do that (especially at night, likely no road lighting in these parts.).
up over the crest, and at a low point in the road before it began to climb again, we finally made it to our abode for the vacation stay:
the tamaraw beach resort
to be continued...
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