Life’s Lessons

We wanted to go to the beach so much so we headed to the famed Isla Reta Beach Resort in Talicud Island. We were at Sta. Ana port before 9AM to catch the first trip of the boat going straight to the resort but it departed early so we had no choice but to ride another boat (not owned by Isla Reta) and waited for an hour until it was full. The supposedly 45 minutes to 1 hour boat ride was longer because we dropped off some passengers in Kaputian in Samal Island before heading to Isla Reta. Boat fare is 70 pesos for adults and 50 pesos for children.

We arrived Isla Reta around lunch and as expected, it was packed with people because it’s Black Saturday that time. Compared to beach resorts in Samal Island during that time of the year, it was not really full. It’s just that I am used to see Isla Reta during ordinary days and weekends and there’s not so many beach bummers during those times so about more than a couple of hundred people in the resort is too many for me.

We had lunch of fried Kitang and native chicken tinola that we ordered from the resort’s kitchen first (while waiting for our cottage to be ready for occupancy. Since it’s still hot, we had fresh buko juice (right from the coconut trees in the resort).

We all shared in one Buko? Nope! Each of us had one but after drinking the juice and scraping the young coconut meat (yummy!), Ace put all straws together in one buko and took that photo.

That afternoon, it’s low tide and everybody (except for Ella and Eman) are still not in the mood for swimming (because we are enjoying the sea breeze just walking in the sand), we took the chance for picture taking. After a few tries, Che2x finally got a nice photo of me and Ace

Eman can’t seem to wait to swim as he’s so ecstatic to see the water!

Ella didn’t waste a single minute. The moment we were all settled in the cottage, she changed to her swimming attire and head on to the beach all by herself. When we checked on her, she already made friends with other resort guests.

While Carol and Che2x are busy taking photos of each other, Ella was babysitting Eman and the little guy was enjoying the water a lot!

We spent the night chatting. Ace slept early (as usual. He’s such a sleepyhead everytime we spend a night at the beach) but I woke him up early to catch the sunrise but this is all we got. We were waiting for Mr. Sun to come up from the horizon but he was too shy to show up.

I and Ace had a dip in the water then had breakfast. After breakfast, everybody went swimming! Swimming is nothing without our picture taking so here are some snaps…

After lunch, we were informed that there will be two boat trips going back to the city (to accommodate everybody) and we listed ourselves on those who will be taking the 3PM trip. But when everybody’s ready, we changed our minds and decided to take the 5PM trip so we took time to go to the other side of the beach.

Laida (Ella’s puppy) must have been tired walking and running that he slept at a sand castle

We took a dozen or more photos and prepared to go home. Then took some photos while waiting for the boat. That’s me sporting my new beach bag!LOL.

The next weekend, we went back to the resort but this time with my HS classmates/friends so that will need another photo-filled post.