Day 2 - Safari Experience and a touch of Water.
Caluit Sunrise Our 2nd day was full of excitement. We were informed a night before that we'll gonna leave Coron early morning, early as 3:30am. Then I set my alarm at 3:15, so that i'll have 15minutes to prepare myself. Yes! tumunog alarm ko, but I still feel like sleeping, Lolz!,, di kami nagising ni Gina (whom i shared a room) kung di kami ginising ni Willy (my bro-in-law).. we got ourselves ready at around 3:45am, then our Tour guide for the day, Stephanie, asked "Maam, di po ba kayo ba ininform na maaga po ang alis natin?" at dun nahiya na akong sumagot,hehehee, kasi kung di lang ako natulog ulit when my alarm rang sana on time kami hehehee..
Stop Over 1 - Calauit Island
Domesticated Calamian Deer Coron Town to Calauit Island is about 2-3hrs travel by Van, It was arranged by Darayonan since we get our whole itinerary from them in package, meals included. We arrived at the boat dock at around 6:30am and we had a boat transfer going to Calauit Island. We witness a great surise in the safari island. After we docked, the Island attendant (sorry but I forgot his name) handed us a registration sheet for the whole group. Then the tour started. When going inside we saw group of Calamian Deers, there are more or least 900 deers roaming around the island. You can easily identify which one is a male and female because males has horns while female doesn't have. Then we saw group of Giraffes and Zebras! WOW! as we approached the gazebo area to have our breakfast, Giraffes are walking on our way, it seems they knew they have visitors and one way of welcoming us is by walking through us.
Giraffe Lovers Giraffes are seems to be so friendly. After our breakfast, Our guide gave us a brief explanation about Caluit Island, how it all begun and how many species it has. He also gave us orientation of the behavior and characteristics of Giraffes. Now, our Safari truck is ready. It will be used for the whole tour, hence, we might get hurt or kicked by the wild animals, lol. Our guide get some leaves from the barn and we started to feed the giraffes while us on the truck. We had a great experience with them, feeding them, touching them, caressing them. Then we knew, they have names! oh yeah! , I can name few, there is Mylene called to be their "queen or star" then there is Athena, and Jerry.
eating zebras We don't have the chance to get more closer with the zebras because we are afraid that they would give us a loving side kick.LoL! We just view them few steps from us. They are so cute and adorable, i love seeing them in group, super cute. They are smaller then the ordinary horse, they are some kind of a pony in size, but that stripes made them so nice to look at, all they eat are grasses but sometimes they take antibiotics when they get sick. I forgot how many zebras are there, but I guess it's more than 20 or 30. They also have this rivalry characteristics, when two zebra men are fighting for one zebra lady. uyyyy! kahit pala hayop may rivalry din, hehehhee.. Cute!.
Civet Cat Caluit also have cage animals such as, Civet Cat, Turtle, Porcupine, Wild Pig and Crocodile, too bad their bearcat died due to loneliness when the male bearcat eaten by its prey, phyton. It's the Civet Cat that is really interesting, because according to the guide it has the capacity to hypnotize his prey and It can produce first class coffee called Alamid Coffee (if im not mistaken, as far as my memory is concerned, hahahaha) from it's shit or waste or whatever you call it. hehehehe
Stop Over 2 - North Cay
After Caluit, Our next destination was North Cay; it is a new proposed itinerary of Darayonan. Since I already have read so much reviews of the North Cay, I got so really excited. We drove down to Salvacion Town and we have to transfer a boat at the dock (all our transfers are already arranged by Darayonan). It took 30-40 minutes boat ride to North Cay, but the long wait is much rewarded with clear and pristine waters, tingnan mo lang yung dagat eh parang ang sarap ng maligo. North Cay should I say the best beach that we’ve visited so far, with a long stretch white beach and a fine sand that you will surely enjoy plus astonishing corals and fishes, I mean really lots of fishes. It is here too that we had a close encounter with the clown fish or better known as NEMO, yeyy! , We don’t bring any goggles, Good thing there were goggles for rent in the Island, there are cottages too, for you to hide from the heat of the sun. We had our lunch there, again prepared by our hosts, Darayonan. We had lato (seeweeds), grilled fish and adobo? (lolz, I forgot waaaaa!!), but one thing I didn’t forgot we had a full and tasty lunch (hehehe). We spent an hour in North Cay and we did really had a great time snorkeling.
Stop Over 3 - Maltatayuk Island
Our last stop was Maltatayuk Island, we supposed should have South Cay but we chose Maltatayuk instead. North Cay, South Cay and Maltatayuk is owned by one person, and they are about 5 minutes boat ride from each other, But I should say, North Cay is the best among them. Maltatayuk has no cottage, and you can just simply swim around, I don’t know if there are corals but just near the shore are sands and some stones. We just stayed Maltatayuk about 15-20 minutes, I guess because we already much time for snorkeling at North Cay that’s why we spent more time soaking and swimming at Maltatayuk. We ended our day tour with sleeping the whole way back to Coron, hehehehee. To sum it all, we had a great, great and super great time.
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