Woke up early to try and catch the 9:20 ferry to Cebu, shared a minivan to the port with some others from the hostel. Arrived at the port and there were so many huge and slow queues that we missed that ferry and the next one was 11:40 so we napped in the waiting room.

Got the ferry, then walked an hour to the bus terminal, got some odd local food and then a bus up to Maya port (bus took almost 5 hours!) then got the night ferry (local style boat that gets punted through the shallows), because of the bad weather it took about half an hour to get out of the bay.

Then it was really rough and wet getting to the island, it was around 11pm when we moored up, all the men on the boat tried to pull us in further, but the boat was really quite large so wasn’t going to get any closer, so in thigh high waters we waded with our backpacks on to the shore. Then someone asked where we were trying to get to, we said “Villa Sandra”, a place that was recommended to me. He was the cousin of the guy that owned it so lead us there. The island is beautiful and tiny, it takes a couple of hours to walk the entire circumference of beautiful beaches and a couple of cliffs.

This Villa Sandra place is an amazingly chilled rasta hostel. Sooooo chilled! The owner is an amazingly nice little local chap with dreads and a chin bearded that spent most of his time playing a wooden flute and lived in a treehouse in the garden, surrounded by hammocks and a few tents, in case the rooms fill up. All the people that worked there are good mates and everyone was so nice, thoughtful and chilled. Thankfully they had space for the two of us for the night because of two no shows. I slept so well!