The Rest of Cebu Island Trip

This is our fifth week back from the temple closure in July and we are having wonderful experiences in the temple.  The last blog talked about our swimming with whale sharks which was only one day of our trip around Cebu Island during the closure so we will now finish up with some of the other things we were able to see here in the Philippines.

We were at the beach several times and at this particular one as we were looking for sea shells we noticed that if you stood still for less than a minute many of the small shells started moving.  Baby hermit crabs were everywhere in the shells.  These two are in Elder Sorensen's hand.

This is Tumalog Falls.  We loved being here.  The volume of water coming off the falls was far less than other falls we have seen but with the outcropping of rocks and the water being dispersed in numerous directions creating a fine mist, it was just beautiful and peaceful.  Notice the large bamboo plants on the right side.

Elder and Sister Sorensen enjoying Tumalog Falls.  It's great being Senior Missionaries.

Sister Sorensen enjoying the peaceful atmosphere while soaking her feet in the pool at the base of the falls. 

There were all these little fish that came up and were giving Sister Sorensen a foot massage.

This is Kawasan Falls, much more commercialized than Tumalog Falls but beautiful.

If you wanted to you could get on a raft and actually go into the falls, for a price of course.  We stayed dry.

Walking back to the van from the falls we saw this Nanny with her Kids enjoying lunch.

The last night we spent on our trip was at the Virgin Beach Resort which was highly rated by some on the web.  As we continued down a long mostly dirt road we were beginning to wonder.

The welcome sign seemed to be a little damaged, what could that mean?

This was the resort.  We were the only guests there and survived the night but were glad to be on our way.  This area was hit hard by the earthquake and typhoon that devastated areas of the Philippines last year.  We could honestly say that "at one time" this was a nice resort.

We were at the North end of Cebu Island which is highly agricultural as can be seen in this picture.  We loved the open space.

This is one of the many sugar cane fields that we passed in this area.

This was by Bogo still in the North.  Cultivating a field using Carabao, which is an Asian water buffalo and the National Animal of the Philippines.