It was a beautiful day...
After two days of beach and hotel hopping, and enjoying the afternoon in the turtle hatchery, we went to Las Cabanas as our next hotel to stay in for the night. We couldn't check in early so we just left our luggage there and spent most of our morning going to Taraw Cliffs and then Commandos Beach by lunch.
While we were on the Commando's Beach, Cory quickly stopped me from doing what I was supposed to do. To take off my underwear and go on commando.
"Anong ginagawa mo?" masungit nitong tanong sa akin. May kasama pang hampas sa braso ko. Tsansing lang 'to, e.
"Going commando? Nasa Commando's Beach tayo, obviously, you know what that meant, right?"
She rolled her eyes at me. "You know that's not what the beach meant. Commando's Beach is obviously the Seven Commando Beach and it was because there used to be seven soldiers who used to live here... ako pa ba ang magkukwento sa 'yo niyan when you've been living in Palawan for your whole life?"
I shrugged off. "It's nice to know that from someone like you. Ang galing mo, ha? You've done your research so well. Kakabilib!"
"That's I think common knowledge na around here. Niloloko mo lang talaga ako, e." I laughed at her remarks. "See? Ikaw pa na walang alam? You know too well to be dumb about it."
"Kaya nga sabi ko kakabilib, 'di ba?"
"E 'di, thank you! I appreciate that!" she said and a smile lingered on her face. "So, after this... saan naman tayo? We've still got the whole afternoon."
"There's the small and big lagoon," I suggested. "It was part of our itinerary today and if we could push through, let's do it! Balik na ba tayo sa hotel natin so we can finally check in our stuff?"
Hindi na naman kami naghintay pa nang matagal ng oras. Going back to our hotel, we took a trike for fifteen minutes and once we're there ay sinalubong na kami ng staff na pwede na namin i-check in ang mga gamit namin.
"So, saan na nga tayo?" tanong niya muli sa akin.
"Small lagoon," diretsyo kong sagot sa kanya. "You would love to be there... I'll love it there."
"Okay, sure... let's go there na! Baka wala tayong abutan kapag pumunta tayo ro'n."
Hindi rin naman nagtagal ay nag-ayos na kaming dalawa. We packed some of our stuff before heading out. I didn't let her bring her laptop there because it won't be safe. We'll be going to an island and wouldn't be wise to bring it there.
When both of us are finally ready, we ride on a trike heading to the port. When a staff there said that going to the small lagoon would be by an island-hopping tour which we missed. They said the island-hopping operation started by nine in the morning which we're way off the time already.
"Wala na po ba talagang chance na makapunta kami sa small lagoon?" tanong n Cory sa staff.
Kinausap ng staff na 'yon ang kasamahan niya at nagdiskusyon pa sila. We wait until she come back to us offering us something.
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