SOL #8 - Island Hopping

Last year (2017) in the summer, my family and I vacationed at the Philippines for about 3 weeks.

One of the last  things we did while there was to island hop at an area in the Philippines known as the “Hundred Islands”. As you can guess, there’s a lot of islands.

We mostly traveled by boat, but some of the other islands were connected by plastic inflatable bridges, which were really unstable but fun to walk on.

Around noon, we parked our boat on an island that had a small dine in. The cool thing about this dine in was that were was a small coral reef really nearby that you could swim in.

We ate our food (mostly some traditional Filipino foods like Pancit), then walked along the shoreline, our group planned on snorkeling near the reef. The water was about 8 or so feet deep.

Me and several of my cousins were fine, looking at the colorful fish and aquatic life that was in the reef. I noticed that one of my cousins were bleeding by their foot, so I suggested that he goes back to the shoreline to get it checked.

Curious, the rest of us followed him. Apparently he somehow got a sea urchin stuck onto the bottom of his foot!

His dad pulled it out, and for some reason poured vinegar on it. I know people pour vinegar on jellyfish stings, but not sea urchin puncture wounds.

After, he bandaged it up and we continued boating around the Hundred Island area.

^inflatable bridge
They were made of a hard plastic, but if the waves were to rough they were pretty scary to walk across.