The rest of our week followed in a very similar fashion, morning beach walks, exploring the island via motorbike, and hours spent at the beach (dodging the pushy souvenir vendors). We did sign up for a snorkleing trip, although this too was not quite what I had expected, and failed in comparison to the one I had done in El Nido years ago. The tour was supposed to las 3 hours and included three stops: the underwater cave, snorkleing in a coral reef, and viewing of a giant clam shell. The boat was much smaller than I had expected, although that added a bit of character to the trip. The cave was really cool and easy to navigate, despite locals trying to sell their guide services upon arrival, but the two snorkeling stops were frustrating. Both of our snorkel masks were continuously fogging up making it difficult to see much of anything, and we both experienced a few stings which we were later told "probably small jellyfish, no problem!"
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I could have stayed in El Nido forever, but my flight back was from Coron, so eventually I had to leave. I still had some doubts about the day ahead of me but there was really no turning back at this point. I was told to arrive at the pier at 7 o'clock (an hour before we were due to depart) but knew there would be a lot of waiting. Slowing a variety of other travelers gathered, but I kept quiet and enjoyed my morning of observance, seeing who I'd be spending the next 8+ hours with. I knew an 8 o'clock departure meant we'd be lucky to leave by 8:30, but many others seemed annoyed at the lack of urgency on getting us aboard. Finally, closer to 9 o'clock they brought us to our boat, loaded our luggage and then gave us the go ahead to get on the boat, "one by one" to which no one paid much attention and stormed the boat like a pack of wild animals. I hung back and laughed at the idiocy with two others, as the rest of them made their best attempts at sinking the ship before we even left the port, great I was about to be stuck on a boat with 30 morons.
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