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Cebu has an excellent bus service running throughout the island, and what makes it fun is that you simply flag down a bus whenever it is coming towards you. For a very reasonable fare, you get an automatic seat on the bus, a helpful conductor, and if you have managed a lucky flag-down, a bus that proudly boasts a loud 80s pop playlist up on the TV screens. We noticed this last year and we are seeing it again: this country is playing 80s songs, everywhere, all the time, and we love it. We moved up the island mid-way to the town of Moalboal for a few days so that Troy could check out this top scuba diving area. After perusing several dive shops, and oddly realising that most of them were completely disinterested in selling us a trip, we found the right choice at the very end of the beach strip. All of the dive sites are very close to the shore, so we went out on three separate trips over the day; Troy diving, and Clare snorkelling. The state of the coral was pretty mixed, but we did see several of our favourite turtles, and swam through what is known as the sardine "wall". This sardine run, as it is formally called, is a formation of over one million sardines moving together throughout the water, and seeing this giant shadow with its occasional flashes of sardine silver is pretty dazzling! It is almost like watching an interactive art installation, and every angle is a different spin on beautiful. Never seen anything like it! Hoping to get one more scuba/snorkel experience in before we leave the Philippines!
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Caitlin This post made me think of two things... our awesome bus passes in London (too bad you couldn't flag down the buses there!) and waiting for the bus to pick us up from the Masonville Loblaws, and the Night Bus from the Prisoner of Azkaban (this reference is clearly for Troy, the cooler of the two of you). Love the picture!
Clare Hansen Troy says that is the only Harry Potter movie he has actually seen, did you know this? Ha ha, Masonville Loblaws! All I remember is always looking for good deals on Chewy Chips Ahoy cookies and Lucky Charms.
Caitlin Troy have you read the books? If not, what's wrong with you?! We all know there is a little something off with Clare (hardy har har!), but I thought you would have the good sense to read the series.
Clare Hansen He has not read the books!! Right now he is working his way through Game of Thrones, this is all basically the same to me.