Trip to Batanes, Day 4

So my second day in Batanes didn't end up as crazy as my first, but it sure does come close. So I got up early and took a jeepney to the boat dock where I would find boats going to Sabtang. I got there and to my luck, found one that was just pulling out. I quickly got on and took my first boat journey of the trip. The boat was a fairly small wooden boat compared to the waves we were encountering, but it was fun and was only about a 45 minute boat trip to the island. When we got off, we weren't at a dock, so you just jumped out into the waves. It was docked in the sand and thus couldn't help but get a little wet.

Well, I looked around and realized I knew nothing about the island. So I thought, I'll just look at my map and walk around the island. So I got out my map and started walking. Pretty soon though I realized the island was a lot bigger than I though and so after about 2 hours of walking and seeing beautiful sights, I decided to go back to the boat dock and maybe come back once I knew more about he island and could maybe get a bike or motorcycle. I got to the boatdock and sat down. Two men approached and the one introduced himself as the tourism dept. guy and the other was a canteen owner. The tourism guy said I had to pay a tourist tax of like 100 pesos and so I went to his office and paid and signed a paper. Then the other guy offered me a big meal for 250 pesos. I decided to take it because he said I'd get lobster :-D So I waited for a long time for my meal, but it was worth it. I had some great vegatable I don't know what it was, fish soup, pork adobo, rice, a drink, and LOBSTER! It was all soooo good. After the meal, I then took a boat back to Batanes. The canteen owner told me that I have to come back to Sabtang and he told me the places that I want to go and that I need to rent a bike or motocycle next time.

Anyway, back in Batan at the port I waited for a jeepney to come back to take me to Basco where my lodge was. None seemed to be coming and these three people with motorcycles/scooters came by and asked where I was going. When they heard, they offered me a ride. So to not pass up a ride on a motorcycle, I said sure. It turns out they wanted to be my tour guide. They asked me for places I hadn't been on the island. So I told them I hadn't been to Radar Tukon, Fundacion Pacita, or the wind turbines. So they insisted that they take me to those places. So off we were, two on one motorcycle, and me and this other guy on one. Turns out these people that took me are working on building a new lodge on the island. The guy driving my motorcycle was from Taiwan. He was friendly and spoke a little English. Well, so then the rest of that afternoon they took me around the island to those places....showing me all around. Eventually I got back to my lodge around 4pm and thanked them a lot and offered to pay them, but they refused. I should've known.

Then that night for dinner, they didn't have anything prepared at my lodge so they recommended I go to the grill haus down the street. I did and ordered some really good fish there. Yes, eating fish was a theme of this trip. The fish was soo good again. It was funny though, because as I was sitting there at the restaurant eating this meal all by myself, they put on some country music. It was the sad kind of country music and made me feel a little alone for once. It was all good though as my meal made up for it. Although the whole time there was a cat there that wanted my meal too. He'd jump up with his front paws on the table, but I'd always shoo him away.

After the great meal, I paid and headed back to my lodge for the night. I had no clue what I'd do the next day, but that was alright.