Then, in the afternoon as the sun was finally shining for the day, we did a little work before hitting the beach for a couple of hours,

Chris preparing his bait

About to cast

Chris casting

Chris doing a little fishing whilst I pretended to watch by reading a book...

Relaxing and reading

He did manage to catch 2 fish though!

Yes, it's small but at least he tried :)

Ugly fish

That was however until the sky started to change colour and we wathched the rain coming in again...

Yucky rain clouds

The bar on Valentine's Day

The bar at night

Chris today taught the kitchen staff with me as his assistant how to make his delicious freshly baked bed and then made his legendary pizzas! I then re-wrote the specails board introducing them to the local Filipino guests and remarkably they went down a storm that we even sold out! :)

My valentine xx

Moi

written by  chrischarly on February 14, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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The busy street of Aparri

Today Trev took us out to Appari town about 90 kilometres away, which is the nearest town to buy supplies!

A motorbike with a carriage attached to the side

An extended motorbike

We really are out in the sticks here!

One of the many extended vans used as buses

A local bus/truck driver stood proud infornt of his pimped-up rides

We both had a great day just walking around picking up a few supplies and seeing some funny sights!

written by  chrischarly on February 15, 2011 from Aparri, Philippines
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Our boat tied up

The beach

Our speed boat

We took some staff with us as well as some were off duty and we all had the most amazing time.

Trev and I outside our hut on the beach

Paradise

White sand, perfect blue sea!

Fantastic white sand and the most perfect clear blue sea,

Burying Cora

Making it a little more realistic

Cora and Mary-Jane

Staff at Jotay

Authentic and O'Natural!

Chris, Pearla and I (you would never guess Pearla was a guy!)

the photos still don't do the pretty little island justice though!

written by  chrischarly on February 17, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Eating maize from the sisters

The sisters are so tiny, cannot imagine them using this!

Absolutely no idea how they fitted this jeep in a tiny room!

Me, Chris and Sister Irene

Trev and Sister Irene

It was a great morning and we were treated as V.I.P guests and the Sisters gave us free food and a tour of the museum as Trev is quite a celebrity here!

written by  chrischarly on February 18, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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Once I sorted out the fridge, nice and organised!

Wide load

Today we spent most of our day at the resort, Chris as usual in the kithen whilst I did some training out front...

Pigs in the back of a trailer!

Jordy, Melissa, Jill, Chris and I

good balance

the island

mini islands

resting after our mammoth climb

Last night we met a friendly couple Melissa and Jordy with tiny 5 month baby Jill who said we could join them on a fishing boat to another nearby island to visit a lighthouse with some breathtaking views.

The cliff

lighthouse

The lighthouse

Blue sea

The island

fantastic view

We had a lovely day after some climbing we went snorkelling again, but unfortunately I looked down and I was surrounded by loads of jellyfish! They really hurt! I don't think I have swam so fast in my life to get away from them!

Us

The view from the lighthouse

the lighthouse from the boat

lighthouse

A guy posing with his cute little kid

Trev's sister sent a huge box of clothing for the poor people that live in Santa Ana. So today after arranging all of the clothes and sorting through them we went down to the children's clinic and then walked around half of the town giving out tickets to the small children and their families so they can attend on Sunday to Jotay and pick out some clothes.

Kids playing basket ball...

It was quite faninating and upsetting at the same time to see so many of the children here living in poverty but we can imagine it will be pretty chaotic on Sunday! Still many more tickets to give out though as we had over 380 items of clothing sent from the U.K, which cost over £150 just in postage!

written by  chrischarly on February 22, 2011 from Santa Ana, Philippines
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