I finally made it to the island of Siargao last Wednesday.  It is pretty underdeveloped and the locals haven’t yet been corrupted by money and are very friendly and seem very happy. The surf here is great and there are lots of breaks, as the Island is surrounded by reef.  I get a boat to the breaks and the boatman waits for me until I have finished surfing … it’s great.

The only downside is that the Internet is soooo sloooow here.  It is sometimes impossible to download a single web page.  I have work emails coming in and am finding it difficult to respond.  This is also why I haven’t made any posts to the blog until now … it is working faster right now, so I am taking the opportunity to do as much as possible.

One of about 50 little islands I flew over on the hour and a half flight from Manilla. They vary in size and I am sure that tourism will spread to them at some time.

I’m glad that firearms had to deposited by passengers before their flights

A man giving each passenger a parasol for the short walk to the terminal when we arrived in Surigao. I took a ferry from here to Siargao Island.