Sand, Ocean ... It Must be the Beach

Shelly shifted her holidays around this weekend. Rather than taking January 2 off, as her colleagues will in Maryland, she took today off, when not much is happening here, and we headed to the beach. It was officially a work day at the plant, so we had Bobby drive us to the beach. It would give us a chance to relax, and him a chance to sit around and wait for us at the beach rather than sitting around at the plant.

We headed to Matabungkay, about three hours south of Manila, and home to white sand beaches, if not to a lot of good snorkeling or swimming.

The beach was certainly scenic, but the water was too shallow to swim very much. We did find some water deep enough to snorkel. While most of the coral was dead, we did see more starfish than either of us had ever seen before. It was a nice day to get out of the city, we had a nice lunch, and had plenty of time to sit and sleep or read on the beach.