Chilled

What a wonderfully chilled day in a beautiful place!

After a series of adventure and emotion filled days we decided to make the most of Loboc River Resort to unwind.

We awoke to this view from our balcony, which only got better as the day went on and the tide came in.

A morning swim of course and then a beautiful Filipino breakfast by the water 

(Elijah chose the American breakfast of course).

Elijah couldn’t wait to fish from the jetty, and the hope was for this to provide tonight’s dinner, but unfortunately the fish weren’t so keen – which might have been a good thing as I wasn’t sure what to do it if we actually caught anything!   

I insisted we walk across the picturesque bridge to the village of Loboc – an assortment of various styles and standards of housing, and a lot of roosters (not sure where all the hens have gone).

We were sweltering by the time we returned at 10 am and when I suggested a bike ride the boys didn’t seem that interested, so we adjourned to the beautiful pool and even practised our snorkelling.

Then lunch by the river, where the colourful fish teased us by swimming in full view and then disappearing as soon as we stepped onto the jetty.

By now it was simply too hot to be outside and our skin needed us to have some inside chill time.
Then a kayak on the beautiful river before a resort tour.

Why would go on a the resort tour when you've already been here for 24 hours? To meet the resident monkeys and Cabanao (buffalo), as well as the new wing of the resort which is about to open.

And we rounded our day off wih yet another swim and a delicious dinner by the river .
'What was you high today' I asked? For Hamish it was reading by the river after lunch, for Elijah it was seeing the monkeys, but for me it was having a very relaxing day with my lovely boys. How very blessed I am.