Swimming in Mint Island-An Oasis of Broken Corals

The snow-white beach reflects the distinct sea, with light green in the vicinity and deepening blue in the distance. Thin waves swept across the sky, and thin clouds fluttered with the wind like veils scattered to the horizon by the weaver girl. At this moment, the sea turns the sky into a mirror, and the breeze conveys the whispers of waves and white clouds.

This is Bohol Island in the Philippines, 70 kilometers away from Cebu Island. This is a coral island and one of the famous diving spots.

Mint, it's refreshing to hear this word in hot summer.

Actually, it's really cool. Although the sun is big, the sea breeze blows in waves, which is very cool, and you can't feel the heat sitting in the shade. The sand is not as fine as flour, but it is still cool to step on even in the sun. Have another local ice cream, there is nothing more suitable.

Mint is a place suitable for leisure travel in Xian Yi. There are beautiful beach scenery, such as Casa (the best snorkeling spot) in Bali, underwater coral groups in Yushu, and strange underwater cliffs; There is also going out to see turtles and dolphins before the sun comes out in the morning and going to Nudao. Visit the tropical rain forest to see the tarsiers, including the time on the road, 6 days is enough to play and the trip is easy.

Many people go diving in Bohol and get a PADI diving license. There is a diving school on the island, and licensed people can rent crab boats to go deep diving. Although you can experience diving at one time without a license, the depth is limited to 12 meters, and most underwater scenery is more than 20 meters deep, so you need a certificate.

I'm more interested in swimming by the sea. Rare glass seawater is clean and salty enough. When water splashes on my eyes, I don't feel particularly stinging or jealous. There is a large beach suitable for swimming here. So that the feeling of swimming in several sea areas became the most pleasant memory after the whole trip.

On the afternoon of my arrival, I ran to the seaside in my slippers and went swimming. The shallow water area is transparent glass seawater, and aquatic plants, sand stones and broken corals can be seen at a glance. I saw a few small jellyfish at my feet, transparent orange and pink, like gel cream and fruit fudge, but much better, elegant and elegant. I can't help holding them gently with my hands. It's interesting to watch them dance in my hand. The little friend said, "Aren't you afraid of stinging?" Scared, I drew my hand back, as if it were itchy. Seaweed is hard and broken coral is stinging, but I'm not wearing slippers.

I had to put on goggles and swim out quickly. The feeling of swimming is simply great! Although the small waves came and brought two mouthfuls of salt water, it was really salty, but swimming in the blue sea under the blue sky had a happy feeling. The sky has never been so low, and the thin white clouds are like cotton candy, as if they are within reach. The buoyancy of the sea allows me to swim along the long shallow water without feeling tired, which I don't feel when swimming in fresh water. I clearly see two colors of sea water, one is emerald green when I take a breath, and the other is blue from shallow to deep, blooming layer by layer. Of course, all this depends on one premise-when it is calm!

On a clear night, the starry sky by the sea is beautiful. Stars are like broken diamonds, covering the sky. If you are not careful, which one will fall into the sea. I can't tell where the sky is and where the sea is. I only heard the songs of the tides and saw the white waves rolling by, which was more joyful than during the day. Blowing the sea breeze and stepping on the fine but cool coral sand, I can't help running, and running on the beach is also very cool. I used to run in Dadonghai and Guangdong.

The starry sky here is different from the Temple Bay in Zhuhai. The starry sky in Temple Bay is high and deep, and the Milky Way is bright and magnificent. This is a great event. The mint here is quiet and delicate, like the girl next door, and because it is close to the open sea, it looks very close to the sky, and it seems that meteors fall at any time. I don't know how close and far it is from here to our South China Sea. I wonder what the starry sky in Xisha is like? I hope to have a chance to take a cruise to see that deep blue.

At night, the beach is lined with long guns and short guns driven by photographers. Every bar has three or two singers who sing all night, and the local girls are singing all the way with their guitars. Music, singing, and people are buzzing. Music has entered the blood of Filipinos, and almost every family has a bunch of children who can have a choir.

As I planned to go to chocolate hills and the tarsier monkey reserve the next afternoon, I went to the seaside the next morning when everyone was still sleeping. There is a hazy beauty on the sea in the morning. The low waves rolled from the horizon layer by layer, and the sea breeze was salty with a little coolness. The sea is unpredictable. Yesterday it was as blue as a gem, today it is gray (gray-blue sea with white waves). A row of crab boats waiting to go to sea has assembled on the shore.

It's rare for a small partner to come out together, but she just wants to sit on a free recliner and read a magazine blowing sea breeze. I left her alone and went swimming by myself. Lang is happier than yesterday, but it doesn't affect swimming. This time they swam further.

After landing, I asked her, "Have you been reading magazines for so long?" She said, "No, I also watched others play beach volleyball. There is a girl with a great figure. " It turns out that she came to see the scenery. No wonder someone put her in the water and she quit.

Next is a trip to the rainforest. If you can row a boat, renting a boat to row by yourself is much more interesting than taking a cruise. But I'm less interested in it than going to sea. Now that everyone has set the itinerary, I have to follow the brigade.

The next stop is to go out to sea to see turtles, and go to Baricasa to see corals and underwater cliffs. Before leaving the hotel on the third day, a dog came to say goodbye early in the morning and put a stone in front of us. We stayed for two nights. It came for two early hours and looked very sensible.

There was another episode in those two nights. The leader's little daughter suddenly had a high fever. In the evening, she rushed to the town clinic and brought back a few pages of illness report, 1 including medicine and doctor's encouragement. Go back and forth for two hours, and the fever didn't go down until the early morning. Fortunately, the little girl's grandmother brought a pioneer from home, and the fever finally dropped the next day. Let's look at free medical care in Commonwealth countries.

Pay attention to traveling in the Philippines. Their entry and exit are not printed on your passport, but on another piece of paper. Be sure to keep it safe, and you will release it with this paper when you leave.

As the Philippines is a real archipelago in the Pacific Ocean, there are flights from Manila to the main islands, and there are also ships sailing between the main islands. Considering the inconvenient transportation in the island country, the trip to the Philippines is still the main one, and the route should not be too long. Most of us don't have long holidays, so it will waste too much time to take a boat and change planes frequently, and people will be very tired. For example, after you go to Mint Island, you will go to your mother's Rufa Island (Malapaska Island, located at the northern end of Cebu Island), so you will spend a lot of time by boat on the way, and you will have to budget the length of your vacation and the age and physique of your accompanying companions.

Luffa Island mainly allows divers to see many marine life, such as long-tailed sharks, baiji dolphins, devil fish, sea snakes, sea eels, lionfish, Pippi shrimp, seahorses, sea rabbits, spiny dolphins, hermit crabs, clown fish, and colorful corals that cannot be completely recorded by the lens.

The next article is about the sea and snorkeling, to be continued.