After
being boiled in Tibiao, Antique, while it was already late when I left (about 3pm), I insisted that I go to Mararison island as I was already in Antique anyway. While I knew I may miss a trip to Boracay, but i did not bother as boracay is a mainstay.
Around 4pm, I was in the port in Culasi (just behind the municipal office). From there, I asked for the boats that go to Mararison; I was told to wait.
Just minutes later, i saw a group approaching a boat, and I immediately thought they will be bound to the island. And, in fact they are; It's Kapitan's boat actually and Kap himself is in it.
As expected, while in the boat, I was interrogated. I answered every question thrown and thank God it didn't take so much to get their trust (Later, I was told that Culasi is an NPA town and it's probably why).
Immediately when we docked, I asked Kap for directions on getting to the cove which he eagerly narrated to me. From the jump off, you could see the trail, so I walked quickly so I can catch up while sunlight is still there.
In less than half an hour, I got to a cove. I thought it was it, but later, kap told me i took the wrong way :-). Anyhow, the cove wasn't so bad, so I was cool.
When I went back to the community, since Kap's last words earlier was "meet me later", I asked for Kap's house. A drunk brother walked me through, and when i got to Kap's house, I told him I still plan to go back to mainland; He walked me back to Aplaya where he said to wait for his brother in law.
It was beginning to go dark; some were assuring me the brother in law would come as his kids are in the island and has to go back to Bayan (mainland); But, drunk brother is insisting that I stay for the meantime (and was offering all sorts of fish for dinner; other men around, not drunk though, were offering the same). The offer was quite irresistible, but I had the boracay parties behind my head, so I waited still. Moments later, I was hearing a motor engine from the waters.. it's brother in law. :-) I thanked and bid farewell.
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view of mararison (malalison) island from the coast of mainland culasi |
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sand of Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
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Mararison Island, Culasi, Antique |
Notes:
*All in all, I spent P20 to get to the island. Kap did not charge me anything for the boatride; There are no passenger boats going to the island, but boats going to the island would take passengers for P20. For guests though, the ordinance is to rent a boat for P1000 both ways.
*Anyone in Culasi would know where the jump off to Mararison is; Tricycle ride from Ceres station to Pier is P7/head. The ceres buses can drop you straight to the municipality (walk away from pier) but there's a stop very close to the pier. Instead of waiting, i took the trike instead.
*Be wary of the trip times. I was told the last bus coming from Ilo-ilo pass by Culasi around 7pm, latest (also depending on the day of the week; 7pm being probably on a weekend). In my case, it was already past 8pm when i get back to mainland; I waited for trucks that will go Caticlan (locals said they normally take stranded passengers), but wasn't so fortunate; Luckily, there was a tricycle that dropped (equally stranded) passengers from Pandan. The tricycle drivers in the municipality stopped him and asked him to take me. It was about 40kms to pandan (and I begged to pay only P50 for that ride :-) ). From there, I took a "single" habal service to Nabas for P150. From Nabas intersection, I caught a van for caticlan for P30.
here's where I head next
You stopped at the cove... And on the otherside of that is the rocks... We stopped at the rock then climbed on the area with pine trees and just got the birds eyeview of the cove...
ReplyDeleteYun nga po eh.. Sayang maling trail ako.i should've turned left after the elementary school
DeleteI'm glad and excited to go to Mararison Island. I thought I would enjoy the beautiful places there.
ReplyDeleteYou'd love the people a lot more
DeleteI'm glad they're planting Casuarina trees (the pine tree-looking trees) on the island instead of mahogany... :)
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