For today, we chose the ingeniously named tour 'C', visiting four beaches and one catholic shrine. All of the islands looked somewhat similar: a white beach fringe, craggy limestone cliffs, and a dense forest on top - all very beautiful, of course.
As I usually run out of things to do on a beach fairly quickly, I was glad that there was good snorkeling off each of the four beaches.
However, having watched the live stream of the Ironman world championships in Hawaii in the morning, I was a little homesick - or rather triathlon-sick - all day. Getting absorbed in watching and photographing colorful fish was no cure for that, but most certainly a very good distraction.
During the hours spent snorkeling, I got a bad sunburn on my back once again. I will have to learn to always wear a t-shirt for snorkeling!
In the late afternoon, when we were almost back to El Nido, the captain suddenly stopped the boat and switched off the engine. At first I assumed that he was giving us the opportunity to enjoy the sunset without engine noise, but that wasn't the case, of course: we simply had problems with the engine. After floating around for a bit, we had to be towed in by another boat. On this occasion, I discovered that the flashlight app on my phone is able to turn any message into morse code and use the phone's built-in lamp to transmit it. We had lots of fun fooling around with that - just imagine deciphering someone's morse and reading 'we're bored, bring food and beer' ;-)
