Boracay Activities – Island Hopping, Snorkeling, Parasailing and More

By on October 18, 2011

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Boracay, being a top tourist spot in the Philippines, is filled with fun activities that would ensure tourists won’t get bored. They have plenty of  both water and land sports and activities you can do. Here are some of them listed in no particular order.

 

Island Hopping, Snorkeling and Helmet Diving

Island hopping in Boracay is a lot of fun. Small boats that can seat 5 to 10 people can be rented at around 4000 to 5000 pesos.  You just have to ask around the area or the receptionist of the hotel or resort you are staying at.

 

There are plenty of  islands you can visit around Boracay. If you are early enough and the weather is good, you can even go dolphin and/or whale watching. While island hopping, you can ask the boater to stop at some designated areas where you can go snorkeling. Snorkeling is really fun around the island of Boracay as the area is teeming with marine life that is very colorful and enticing. You can bring some bread with you while you are snorkeling so the fishes would come near you. Snorkeling equipment such as the goggles and the snorkel usually go with the boat rental (you should bargain with the boater for them) 0r if not, they can usually be rented at 100 Pesos. Also, while island hopping you can ask your boater to bring you to the boats that offers Helmet Diving. Helmet Diving is an activity where you can walk on the sand under the sea while wearing a helmet so you can breath for around 30 minutes. The helmet is quite heavy but since you are in the water, it wouldn’t matter much. Under the water, the guides would give you pieces of bread so that you could attract the fishes and they would come close to you and you can feed them. During those times, the guide would take pictures of you feeding the fishes and might sometimes ask you to pose for the camera. Helmet diving costs around 500 to 1000 pesos depending on the number of persons that are going to helmet dive and the package usually includes the pictures under the water in soft copy.

 

Parasailing, Speed Boat, Jet Ski, and Banana Boat

Another activity that is done within the vicinity of the coastlines of Boracay is parasailing. It is an activity where you and a friend can go airborne while sitting on a seat that is attached to a parachute and is dragged by a speed boat to make the chute fly or float. This activity costs around 1500 to 2000 pesos per person.

 

Jet skis can also be rented at around 3000-3500 pesos for 30 minutes to 1 hour.

 

Banana boat is a banana shaped floater that can seat from 8-12 people and is being dragged by a jet ski. The riders are all wearing life vests so the ride is safe and if the riders are adventurous enough, they can ask the driver to flip them over and make them fall in the water. It is more exciting that way. :) The ride costs around 2000 pesos for the whole banana boat and lasts about 15-30 minutes.

 

These are the activities you can do on the waters of Boracay. But aside from water sports, there are other activities you can do that does not require getting wet. On my next post, I will tell you some of them.

 

Disclaimer: Prices are all approximates based on my last visit to Boracay, it may be lower or higher than what I indicated. 


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  • Cruel

    The gods placed us all into our own corners of the globe. As such for thousands of years we spent time and reproduced with out own kind.
    This is why mobilty/travel, biracial unions/offspring and partaking of other cultures is a sin::::
    Each has it’s own elements of disfavor, and by experiencing other cultures you are being exposed to these disfavors, which if people may adopt will make their state even worse than prior.
    The United States has been considered a “melting pot” where rejects from around the world were sent when kicked out of their motherland.
    Remember, this concept of cultural diversity is an element of the liberal platform the gods used to promote societal decay, revealed on the map with the “beast” that is the SanFranciscoBayArea and the spread of social deterioration that spread to the rest of the country and eventually to the entire globe.

    The gods positioned this global situation with a telepathic audience in the hundreds of millions to create the appearance/perception of an evil/wicked diety, thereby corrupting those unable to deceipher the clues and understand their true intent. This has effectively created a division between those with hope and The Damned, sentenced to dig a hole for themselves they may never recover from as they fall for temptation the gods test them with.

    xtainity is the true evil here, and why it depicts Lucifer as wicked.
    Lucifer is the Second COming. xtinaity used this tactic to protect the Biblical Apocalypse as it reads in the Bible. The truth is Lucifer is a prophet who teaches the meaning of life. You must follow my teachings if you are to ascend into heaven rather than the xtian “consolation prize” of 1000 years wuith Jesus on Earth.

    4.15
    12:30p
    “We’ll make it up to them.” is the empty promise the gods make to the people.
    The 20th century devestated our society and our cultures so severely to meet their strategy that the gods incurred obligation for what they did to the people. In compensation the gods gave the people this Situation, the Chosen One who teaches the “meaning of life”, which the gods defended vigorously, plus the “consolation prize”, the promise of 1000 years with Jesus on Planet Earth.
    Telepathically “pushed” into violating their values and morals the gods washed their hands of obligation to the people as cheaply and easily as they possibly could.
    The gods washed their hands WITH me then washed their hands OF me.
    MY “consolation prize” is “coming back”. Not reincarnation, for we ALL experience this being a matter of policy and procedure, but “coming back” on the scale of the gods:::A new “colonist” on the next Planet Earth. And, if they choose, they will manufacture a way to get out of this obligation as well.

    Let me share with you some of the monsterous things the gods have done in the recent past::::
    1. Treat Blvd. killings. Saw a beautiful therapist I recently brought up again. The gods had some delinquent white male plow his SUV into an Afghan man and his 9 year old daughter on a Saturday morning ride right in front of the building after I “foreshadowed” the event, killing them both.
    2. Discussed Haitian child slavery problem. Had a slavery complex in my family, perpetuated from parents into the next generation. Considered a parent’s possible reincarnation as a Haitian child slave. Shortly thereafter 25,000 dead in 2009 earthquake.
    3. Badmouth crappy Chilean fruit. 2009 Earthquake.
    4. 2002 Cozumel vacation. Wilma parks on the prime diving area (SW) of the island and hammers the reefs for 40 full hours.
    5. Hurricane Andrew
    6. Hurricane Hugo
    7. Trip to followed by the 2006 Hawaiian earthquake days later.
    8. 2004 trip to Bourbon Street’s hedonistic Fat Tuesday followed by 2005 Hurricane Katrina (name clue).
    9. 1999 trip to Grand Cayman. Hurricane Ivan devistates the reef, the Queen’s Garden and proceeds to slice up the middle of the state of Alabama months after my visit.
    10. The town I stayed in experienced a tornado which killed almost a dozen.
    This list goes on and on and on.

    The gods having fun with the Situation through killing playing their fucking games:::
    2. Salon Meritage, 8 dead
    3. Speed Freak Killers, dozens dead, which was used to inspire Beavis and Butthead.
    4. Costa Concordia, Sch captain, 30 dead.

    They treat life so trivially. Since we are all “coming back” through reincarnation I suspect this may be justified. However in light of the atrocities the gods inflict on humanity in the name of divine justice it rings hallow.

    8:45p
    The morbidly disfavored Mediterreanean was used as the platform for “Western Civilization”, promoting sexual deviacy to create an “Animal House” type of enviornment in our society, “leveling the playing field” for Europeans in preparation.
    The gods will enforce their positioning of xtianity/RomanCatholicChurch partnered with capitalism/UnitedStatesofAmerica. And we will realize when the gods execute the New Testiment prophecy under the guise of the perceived “one true religion”, xtianity.
    Two realities:::The god’s positioning and the god’s reality. The reality is children ascend into heaven upon repairing their relationship with the gods and fixing their evils from current and prior lives. The positioning will deliver “1000 years with Jesus on Earth”, justified with scientific and medical advances, and only the TRUE believers in Jesus (are there any?) will have “everlasting life” (recolonize next Planet Earth and continue humanity’s life cycle).

    The gods are control freaks who forced this Situation with Artificial Intelligence.
    Much as WorldWarII’s Unit 731::TSUSHOGO proves, it could have gone no other way.

    My life was devistated and I never even had a brief period of time to achieve to the best of my ability.
    You could have allowed a period of loss. Instead your control freak nature ensured total control and little progress.
    The Situation sucked for many reasons:::One so the gods would not be obliged to their Chosen One. A mediocre Situation ensured they could force me into MY “consoloation prize”::::Relegated to recolonization of the next Planet Earth. Tens of thousands of years of hard labor, “dawn to dusk” days, slavery, crucifixion, burning at the stake, torture, etc.
    They attempt a “Pavolv’s Dog” conditioning method like I was a lowly Mediterreanean, a consequence for the European West as well as a result of this Mediterreanean platform of “Western Civilization”. It didn’t work on me when you destroyed my childhood in preparation for this Situation and it won’t work now.

    Making me inactive in my youth was to enhance your positioning. They didn’t want any hint of respectability.
    I have decided the gods are wicked. They’ve taken too many liberties, crossed too many lines and have revealed their immorality. Convienience is their priority.
    My trademark:::The penticle. Guess I really am Lucifer::The sole source of disfavor used to initiate disfavor in the next “Garden of Eden”. “You’re coming back.” Bitter resolution for someone they selected as their “Chosen One”. Guess it is true all I will receive is a lousy “reach-around”.
    When you took my health you lost me.

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