Relaxing Day at the Beach

Our second day on Apo Island was a busy one and an early one. Since the island only had power until midnight we left all the windows and doors open to let the sea breeze blow through our room. With this all the sounds from outside also drifted in, the peaceful sound of the waves along with the birds waking up and the also the daylight. SO, at around 5:30am the kids started shifting around excited to go swimming outside. Ryan thought it would be fun to climb the huge rock jetting out of the water which he did with ease, copied by Brayden on a smaller version. They collected pretty pieces of corals and shells as we waited for a decent time to sit down and get some breakfast which was chocolate crepes, yum.
After breakfast we made our way to registration office where we paid our 50php ($1.00) snorkeling fee to head the Marine Sanctuary. SO amazing and warrents a post of it's own which I'll get on.
Getting up at 5:30am makes for a long morning. We were back at the hotel around 10:30am and cooled off in the water. The kids played in the sand, used the rocks as jumping points, slides and loved to pull the snail shells off and collect the sticky snails.

They took turns using the snorkel set and looked around the water for more fish and shells and pigged out on snacks. All afternoon we suffered in the heat until Madison went down for her nap and we decided to go back to the Marine Sanctuary for some more HD video footage and we went through the tunnel to the main beach. It was nicely shaded with the cool breeze blowing through. It was such an escape and if my bum wasn't so sore from the boat ride over the previous day I would have take advantage of the wooden bench and sat for a while.

We had fresh fruit shakes with our dinner and finished the day sitting on the beach watching the sunset. It was so beautiful. Ryan also took advantage of the quiet moment to climb the rock one last time. Such a great day!