It was on summer 2016 my family decided to go island hoping at my home town which is the San Andres Quezon located at Bondoc Peninsula. My cousins,aunts and uncles came home for our little bonding slash mini reunion. 4:00 A.M is the time we woke up and we arrive to the San Andres port at 5:30 A.M because some foods that we are going to bring needs to be cook. The sun starts to rise up but the motor boat wasn’t still not there so we did some pictures to avoid boredom.The motor boat that we rented is the motor boat of my aunty’s co-teacher named Mr. Michael “Dimboy” De Leon the boat costs 8,500 pesos.
After several minutes the boat finally came, at 6:00 A.M we started to travel to San Pascual Masbate to start our island hopping. The travel was really rough, the waves our big, we even get wet because of the impact if the wave to the boat and that time I was really praying to God to be with us.
It was a four hours motor boat ride to reach the farthest island which is the Animasola Island. I was mesmerized of its beautiful rock formations, there was a naturally made pool that is called “mermaid pool”, we roam around the island and take some pictures it wasn’t that easy to roam around because it is a rocky island. We’ve seen some tourist too that are having swimming rock climbing and snorkeling. The island is shaped like a church in far, the top of animasola island is green because of grass and it can be reached by rock climbing. The most remarkable of this island is the dinosaur like, rock formation.
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My family decided to go to the next islet, we traveled 45 minutes to reached the Tinalisayan Islet. It is famous for its very long white sand bar and to the building stones. We’ve only take some pictures then decided to go to the next island. It is not advisable to have an overnight here because it is small and dangerous of there is sudden typhoon or bad weather.
The next island is the Sumbrero Island, it is called Sumbrero Island because of its hat shape like figure. We took 30 minutes to reached the island. It has a crystal clear water,white sand and some rock formations. This Island is the most famous Island among the three and it is the most advisable island of San Pascual Masbate to have a overnight because there are cottages that is available to this island ( I don’t have idea about its price). We do not have any chance to roam to this island because it is big and we are running out of time, my nieces are waiting at the Alibijaban Island together with their nannies. We didn’t have chance to visit the Dapa Island or Snake island because my Aunties doesn’t want to, I heard that this island is famous at cliff diving and it is very rock and there are lots of sea snakes. Then we decided to go to the last island.
One and half hour motor boat ride we reached at the Alibijaban Island which is the nearest Island to the town proper of San Andres. It was the safest island to have an over night. It is reached at mangrove area. In this island you can do, snorkeling, swimming, kayaking, diving for the floating cottages and relax, it far away for the stressful life. After some snacks we decided to go to sand bar but unfortunately, it is not the beautiful when it is very low tide, we did only some pictures and decided to go back to our cottage (I don’t idea how much it is because it is owned by my father).
At night we did wash our selves (the water costs 100 pesos per dram) and also we have bonfire while jamming and do star gazing (it was my favorite part). It was very relaxing and refreshing. The next day we rented one of the floating cottage (costs 200 per hour), it is at the deep part and the water is crystal clear, you can see some fish,sea urchins and starfishes below the floating cottage. At the afternoon we decided to pack our things and come home.
NOTE:All islands do not have electricity, the only source of electricity is solar panels and generators, so if you want to go to this islands it is advisable to bring solar power banks. If you want to have island hoping there are some people and facebook pages who have promos and you can contact about island hoping to this islands.