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Well despite my previous entry, we got on to going to Bolinao this weekend. The place we went to was good looked good great facilities, but too expensive for my taste. I’ve got pictures at my multiply site, and also a full review of the place.
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Anyway, after trying to even out my tan lines I ended up having too dark skin. Hehehe it doesn’t show in the pictures I uploaded but you see, after we went to the resort, we visited my grandmother at Santiago Island and the boat trip and tricycle trips under the burning sun called all my melanin out.
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Anyway it was fun spending some time with my parents and my sister, I just wished we could’ve stayed there longer. I was a little disappointed with the beach though, it never got very deep, but the sand in the deep part was more like mud than sand, maybe because the beach was right beside the opening of the River Malinao. The waves never got to the beach because there appeared to be something blocking it off shore. We later found out that the place where the waves end is a deep drop. i tried to go there but I was stopped by the mud-like black sand which was really gross.
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Anyway I just confined myself to looking at the bottom of the about hip-high water where I found lots of shells, a few fish lurking in the dead coral and the newly sprouted seaweed and one dead fish floating into oblivion.
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My feet had it’s own share of exfoliation when we walked the beach into Puerto del Sol, which was only a few meters away from Punta Riviera. The waves hit their beach and as far as I know, they don’t have the icky muddy sand, weel that’s because before I got far enough out into the deeper  part of the water, I was blocked by a WALL OF SEAWEED!
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Here I was thinking that maybe we finally arrived at a better beach. me and my sister, with my neice went further, so as not to be scolded by the Puerto del Sol people, then while my neice enjoyed the deeper water which was full of dead sea weed, I tried to explore the deeper parts. With my goggles on I swam out but before I could get deep enough to practice my swimming skills, there I was tangled in a wall of seaweed. Seriously, I thought I was going to die, it was soooo gross and slimy, I felt like Harry Potter in Goblet of fire when he went thorugh the wall of sea weed, but this was icky and slimy and as far as I know, there were no grindylows.
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Anyway, I got home safely, but not without an allergic attack because I went into the pool. I think I’m allergic to pool chlorine, because i didn’t get any allergic reactions from the sea water.
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Owell that’s my Ilog Malinao adventure, hopefully we get to go to Patar beach this last weekend of April. Either that or I’m going with my higschool friends to Puerto Galera…. But I’m crossing my fingers because this kind of planned stuff almost always gets cancelled.

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