Day 24 - Manila to Boracay
The flight from Manila to Caticlan airport was only 45 minutes, but our ultimate destination of Boracay was on a different island. We had arranged a transfer so we were met by some very helpful staff from My Boracay Guide who drove us to the Caticlan Jetty Port. They then gave us our ferry tickets and helped us with our luggage as far as the stairs to the ferry. There are a lot of porters offering to carry our luggage onto the ferry (for a fee) but M decided he'd do it himself, nearly tripping and dropping a case into the water along the way.
The sky was dark and ominous, we were a little surprised by the wind and rain and was told it was due to a typhoon expected to arrive later today! This was news to us, we'd been keeping an eye on Cyclone Kalmaegi and the deadly Super Typhoon Fung-wong which hit the Philippines five days later. We'd been keeping our selfish fingers crossed that the worst would be over by the time we arrived. What we had missed was that Typhoon Verbena was on its way! It was due to pass over islands well south of us but Verbena's wide reach meant Boracay was also copping the rain.
It was a 15 minute boat ride to the island of Boracay, then at the other end it was more porters (which M avoided) to get the luggage back onto dry land, then another van for 10 or so minutes. We then parked on the road and our luggage was carried along the sand to our hotel Villa Caemilla. We had definitely done the right thing paying for the transfer, we could have done it on our own more cheaply but it would have been more stressful and taken a lot longer.
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