BIRI: Island Rocks and Mountain Waves

We went to the Island of Biri in Northern Samar this Holy Week of 2007 and it was awesome! In case you don't know the place, take the route to Google Earth, see how the map looks like and you'll begin to appreciate how it will look the real thing.

We found these two majestic rock towers, I would say the height of a 10-storey building, stairs carved out by the winds and salt water, after traversing the seas by a little over than two hours. And boy, I never really saw big waves until that day our two little motoboats were tossed like paperboats! Picture this. You were sandwiched by walls of water, and your pumpman had to turn-off the motorboat engine to disengage the rotor, just about when the boat is riding the wave. Exciting albeit dangerous! I took the liberty of researching and found that these rocks were used by the British to scout for enemy ships approaching the islands of Samar.

So, what's more in the island?

Not so much. We just found a lot of mini-pools and large pools below the rocks teeming with marine life. First time I saw seasnakes and moray eel. There you'll find Nemo, seaurchins (this blog named after it), abalones, sea worms (imagine giant leeches in King Kong), and a host of migratory birds wandering on the mangroves. Danielle and Julia really enjoyed the trip.

Sarap ulitin!