Tuesday, November 5, 2024

3 November 2024 Cauayan Island: Exploring the Grounds and Preparing to Move On


After breakfast we explored around the grounds. We sat with the folks at the reception desk and talked through our departure.  Our original AirSwift flight was scheduled for noon and unfortunately they canceled that flight and re-booked us for an 8:45 flight.  That means that we will have to take the 5:30 AM boat shuttle back to the mainland.  This gave us a bit of stress for several reasons.  First we would have to use the back dock with the narrow pier and floating platform.  Secondly we would have to do this in the dark.  Lastly the weather forecast was calling for storms at this time and if it is too rough to take the boat, we will miss our flight and at least one day at the next destination.  We worked it through and they suggested that we check out later after we had made all of our room charges.  We then explored around the grounds until it got too hot.  We headed back to our lovely little pool.  We packed up our stuff, floated in the pool, enjoyed  the Palawan Hornbills foraging around the villa, had lunch and, boom, suddenly it was time to watch the sunset.  


The beetle in the pool


Green Imperial Pigeons flying by


palawan Crow is now our Pal


One man in a large body of water


Ashy Fronted Bulbul Lifebird #1


Fish in the lagoon


Very beautiful


Looking up at the hike from the previous day


Big seeds


Seeds soaking or just a soft landing?


Mr Snail


A very intricate crab


Very green 


With pink pinchers


Tye north side of the bay


The end of this walkway is the spa


Big rocks to get around


What might this be?


The Spa


No massages today


Heading back


It is a nice bay


The long walk back


I took the trail to the sunset point


Hanging onto the big blue rope


Cant get lost with this


Almost to the top and I have to walk the plank


The platform informs the treckker that they have reached the top


Great views from the top


Looking over to the sunrise point


I cant see our villa as it is straight down


Back down for the sunset


The sun is going to be blocked out today


Is that a weasel shaped cloud? 


Maybe it is a cat with a laser beam eyes


Or maybe laser beam snot


A fiery ball of gas


The sun sets on our last night in Cauayan Island


What a great place!



 It has been 2 years and 150 days since we began our Migration