A guy lost on Boracay

Bitch, shut your hole and stop wasting my carbon credits.

I copyright this usage type of carbon credits note right godamn now.

All I need in life is a random weed in a coke bottle and a little rum.

Got up early Sunday for some swimming and snorkeling before the homies started acting like opening day at a trailer-park swimming pool…about 5:30 or 6am.

Annnnnnd….brownout, just as I step outside. No bother, not going to be home anyway.

Out swimming around was pretty good although visibility was poor. Got about 1.5 kilometers out and saw many schools, large schools of sea catfish both juvenile and young adult. Things should never be left alone so I dove down five meters to wave hands thru them. I’ve done that a hundred times and touch them always but never once getting pricked by the poisonous spines.

Turning south, I had to keep more aware of the surroundings because it was now the boat traffic lane closer to Angol coral gardens than shore… Whats that, 2 or 3km out? I keep looking up for jellyfish that’ve been edging in and I was glad for my long hair growth, half stuck under the mask like some cheesy 1975 yearbook picture.

It was out here that I saw some strands….then wiggeling strands… then small darts… then WTF is this trying to rape my mask?! In hindsight, it was a beautful example of a black/white flatworm about an inch long. Now, this was about 10 meters up and it was undulating wildly like a damselfish and seemed intent to land on my mask….but damselfish have tend to have fins, tails, heads, eyes….everything this didnt. Had to look it up later.

There use to be a lot of brain coral down on the south end but now it looks like its been used for construction platforms, not just dead on top from COT but also crushed and flattened like a standing platform. The new resort down there ripped out the cliff a year ago and now seems to have sliced into the cliff face and ground to hide a buried pipe that extends into the sea… tried following it but there’s all sorts of sand out there (where it was a rocky area before) and the fine, angelhair moss growing dead-centered in the sand. A type of moss that I’ve only seen growing around high phosphate areas like stagnant waters or drain pipes. I’ve never seen this type of moss/algae grow in the ocean with moving water, honestly I’ve only seen it in freshwater runnoff.

The surface over there had a nasty foam floating all over and it burned my eyes a bit. A small cut on the hand got infected pretty fast and still hasn’t healed many days later.

It was a good swim, almost 3 hours but when I came back we still had a brownout. Power came back about 9am and went out at noon again for 7 hours. Then out again at 8pm and back shortly before midnight. All total, Boracay had 15 hours of poweroutage in a single day…..again.