Day: June 20, 2008

Photo was actually last June 2 while I was on my flight back to Manila. I was already on the state of drowsiness (read: lack of sleep). The airline pilot just suddently tilted the plane to its left. I was seated on the Alpha seat, so I got really elated what I found from my window: Boracay Island!

Then my seemingly eternal need to hit the beach haunted me again. The clear blue water of Boracay Island Philippines is just sop tempting. The four-kilometer white sand on the world-famous Boracay White Beach is clearly visible from the aircraft.

It was only last January when I was able to visit Boracay again. During that time most of the tourists flocking to the island are foreigners. Most of them are staying away for the harsh winter climate in their home country.

But facts has to be told: the Boracay many people dreaming of visiting today is not the very Boracay we had many years ago. During the 80’s and until the 90’s Boracay Island Resort is what many people call a Paradise. A place that is so clean and the waters pristine.

Today, throngs of crowd go to Boracay every summer time as if it’s a pilgrim site. And because of the heavy inflow of tourist arrivals, it is also expected that the volume of garbage also increases. Worse some of these are just left right in beach. You get to spot some cigarette butts, bottle caps, barbecue skewers just left in the sand. Seaweeds (lumot) oftentimes appear at the beach during summer time. The very time when hordes of people are in this island.

And the unabated construction spree occurring at the other side of the island. Sometimes I would think that one day the island would just sink with all the large constructions being undertaken, the volume of the people coming in and out every day, and the garbage problem in the area.

I hope we can still maintain Boracay. At the very least maintain, or better if we can improve its present pathetic condition.

Cruising over Boracay Island