Day 17 - Boracay (Philipenes) - A brush with death... again

THE DAY YEN ALMOST DIED! I have to make it sound dramatic because I went on a lot about the day I (Rob) almost died (that incidentally was 2 days earlier and involved snorkelling in the bay near the hotel, going out really far over lots of spikey poisonus scarey sea urchins... and then realising the tide had gone out leaving me to snorkel back with little more water than a careless splash on the toilet seat... needless to say I needed a toilet seat afterwards because I crapped myself snorkelling back over the sea urchins with barely a few centermetres between me and them!)... anyway, back to Yen. Today we went with our skipper's brother on a motor boat (just yen and myself for 3 hours, for only about 60 bucks... and good snorkells were provided... bargain). We basically did a lap of the island, stopping about half a dozen times to snorkel. Beautiful fish and coral (though the coral does cop a pounding from all the anchors and boat poles). The one site that everyone raves about is near Crocodile Island (no crocs)... and our skipper dropped us there... all was good and there were tropical fish EVERYWHERE... but one minute we were near the boat, next we were 20 metres away and getting further by the second. Yen started to panic and swim back to the boat, but the current this day was just too strong and we got no where. As Yen put it, I tried my "Baywatch rescue technique"... but even that wasn't enough... finally the skipper threw us a line and pulled us in... phew... from then on Yen sent me in first to test the current! That night we enjoyed another great sunset... and then got very pissed at an expensive resort we were willing to give our money to in exchange for a seafood dinner... their service sucked... so we left and went back to the old faithful Thai place!
LESSON FOR THE DAY: Always wear a life jacket if you can't swim well... and always check the water!