" Verde Island"

Verde Island lies south of Brg. Ilijan, Batangas City It takes 45 minutes by a boat or 25 minutes by a ferry boat from Batangas City Port to reach the island.

I can call this trip as my first ever escapade. It was my late, actually almost ending taste of summer that time, and I literally escaped from home since I told them I was going to school that day to fix some school records and sleeping over at my friend's house. I longed for some airtime out and I was so bitter because they chill and go swimming somewhere and left me home since I have something to attend to that time. 

I travel by boat on the last trip of the day, 9AM, from port of Leah beach located at Tabangao, Batangas. If I am not mistaken, the travel cost a hundred (100) pesos. Traveling by boat excites me more before I even reach my destination. I just love the waves and Thank God I am not sea-sick. 

Yes, I am not sea-sick but after I reached the seashore and approach the way towards my friend's house at the higher part of the island, I already felt sick just by seeing the way. They had this pathway, concrete but elevated so much that the gravity push someone harder to the ground. It's hard (you can imagine) but fulfilling whenever you reached the top. 

Verde island is an isolated Island with only generator to support their electricity. Power turns out at 10PM and resumes in the morning.                                                                                                       

By morning, as expected, it was literally a photo shoot. I just get my camera and photograph everything. The rock formations and the white sand stun me, even before I actually saw it up close when I am still in the boat. The island seemed very conserved cause it don't have any resort within range. So it was basically "my island" that day. Together with my friends, they taught me how to catch crab-like sea creature that hides on the sand we actually cook and ate it. Seriously I don't taste a thing cause I just swallow it (ha ha). 

When night time comes, we had bonfire and night swimming. It was my very first time to witness bioluminescence phenomenon where my eyes literally sparks with amazement to those tiny neon light at the sea. 

Leaving such beautiful scenery before my eyes, I take the first trip back to Batangas City at 3AM in the morning. 

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