The adventure to Passig Islet (May 30, 2009)
It was Saturday morning around 8:00 am when me, arjay and some of his officemates rode a bus from Ecoloand to Sta. Cruz. It was almost 1 hr. ride to the destination. (hmmm… tama ba ko? hehehe) We dropped at the highway to take a shortcut, hmmm… I can say this where the adventure started, we started walking and took the path that leads to the mango trees. Then suddenly two of his officemates just realized it was not the right path to take… (there are lot of mangoes trees around) we almost circled the field but we made thru and it took us a half an hour walked… (hmmm… is it really a shortcut? lolz…!) though very tiring but we enjoyed it.
When we got to our first destination (gerelyn’s house) where we took our lunch. The viand hmmm… oh, yeah my favorite SHRIMP! After we took our lunch, most of us were eager to go to the second destination – the PASSIG ISLET. It was not that easy as you think… u need to take a fishing boat (lancha) it’s the only transportation. It’s about 15 mins. ride to the Islet.
Passig Islet is a man-made islet, a white-sand beach, located at Bato, Sta. Cruz, Davao del Sur. They only have 8-10 cottages, each cottages cost about 300-500 pesos each and no entrance fee and there are few coconut trees that was half-buried within the islet white-sand, it’s still not yet developed but there are lot of people went to swim and enjoyed the place. There is no big wave to expect, the water was just plain as a lake. And the perfect time to go there should be high-tide you can’t appreciate the place when it was low tide definitely the only thing you can see is the white sand and tires around the isle.
Though I am unfortunate to pleased myself just because we went there in low-tide. But I still did enjoy the place, the sky did accord with us the sun hide its face behind the clouds and you can feel the breeze (the rain is coming) but the wind blew it away from the islet.The sun tried to peep but still too shy to face us. But the low tide doesn’t overtook me, I still dip myself into the cold water together with arjay’s officemates (there some part of the islet shoreline that was dug by the wheel loader). The rain started to fall from the sky along with the wind that blew a cold air. (It was really freezing) Agnes (Arjay’s officemates) took a lot of pixes around the islet and I only got few pixes, my camera’s battery went low and even my spare battery too… (how pity…)
It was almost 5:00pm when we were ready to go home… but the boat that we expected can’t fetch us, it was still in low tide state, so we need to stay awhile in the islet and wait for the high-tide. After two hours the boat came and we took a ride back to gerelyn’s place (just the 4 of us me, arjay, gerelyn and jomar). It was still low tide so we need to used the paddle, the water was smooth as it was… the journey was a mixed emotion the wind that touched our faces make us feel freezing it was total darkness and you can only see a light from the seashore but there no need to be scared though something went wrong we can still survived. The water was just only 3feet high.
And lastly, me and arjay took a single motor or “habal-habal” to Digos City terminal it was almost 8:30 pm when we rode a bus home and arrived past 9:00pm in Davao. Though it was tiresome day just got very lucky I got escaped from the city and from work… lolz!
