So its Monday afternoon here in Manila and I’m just hanging out at this really cool café called Cerealicious (Erin D you would love it.) They have these really cool desserts here with sweet frozen milk and all different cereal concoctions. I just had one with kit kats and cherry’s and coco flakes. It was so good! Anyways, yesterday we went to this gorgeous beach near Batangas at Eagle Point. We took a boat out to this island beach to go snorkeling.  Snorkeling was really cool but a lot scarier than I thought. You have to start swimming as soon as you can off the beach because the coral reef starts and you can’t stand on it because it is super sharp and also it’s a living thing so you’ll kill it if you stand on it.  So we all got our snorkeling gear and went out to explore the reef. We saw so many brightly colored tropical fish and starfish. And we saw an eel which made me super scared but it just stayed on the bottom and didn’t bother us.  Swimming in was a challenge though.  At some points the reef gets super shallow so instead of being like eight feet above it you are like 6 inches.  And the tops of the reef are covered in these spiny sea urchins that sting if you touch them, so you have to be careful to stay right on top of the water and not stand up as you swim in.  We also swam in this salt water pool with small sharks in it! It was such a fun day. The beach was one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever seen and being able to hang out with everyone away from the city was so nice. Here are some pictures I took throughout the day! 

Christina, Me and Kyla

The water was so beautiful and clear!

This is the boat we took over to the island.

All of the girls in our group