We’re having a fairly light day on Day 07 at Bohol Island: there’s just one itinerary activity today, and that’d be a river cruise and lunch at Loboc River. We’d be picked up at 11AM, and will be back at the resort by 3PM. With this much free time before and after the cruise, I was up early morning again at 5AM to catch the morning sunrise off Alona Beach where our resort is located.
Like Malapascua Island, the island was only just waking up at sunrise, but there were staff about already cleaning various segments of the beach. I’d already checked earlier yesterday evening with the resort staff if it was Ok for me to fly a drone around the beach area, and they said to go right ahead. Bohol is clearly becoming my kind of place as someone learning aerial videography and flying drones!
This side of Bohol – or more specifically of Panglao island – is also a significantly more built-up than Malapascua. We checked out the Alona Beach road yesterday night to look for dinner, and this beach stretch was filled with restaurants with live bands playing, shops, a 24 hour McDonald’s with a Jollibee right beside it – the kids said the two would be eyeballing each other all the time while vying for the same consumer group. I’d initially thought that few tourists would want to visit Bohol and much less stay overnight: and boy, was I completely wrong on that. The Alona Beach area is filled with visitors, both domestic and foregin. Thankfully, our resort – the Blue Ocean Bohol Beachfront Resort – is located at the far end of Alona Beach, and away from these lively restaurants.
Picture, with the morning sunrise video to follow once I get the Internet bandwidth to post it up. I’ll be doing an evening aerial shoot later in the day, so more to come soon!
