Enjoying Snake Island at El Nido
Snake Island in the Bacuit Archipelago is probably one of the more exotic islands here. A look at the island and you would know why it was named such. Though, the use of the term island here is certainly debatable. Snake Island here is actually a long sandbar. I had previously been to a very short sandbar here in Palawan and that was two days ago at the remote village of Nacpan. While that one was very short and it is debatable if that was even a sandbar at all. There is no doubt as to the nature of Snake Island. It is a long strip of sand in shallow water so shallow that the water reaches only to the middle of their calves. From far away, it would seem that people are walking on water!
Visitors Enjoying the Beauty of Snake Island
Similar to Entalula Island, there was no official way to park the boat. Our boatman just head straight to the sandbar and we waded ashore. It wasn’t very deep at all, yet, the boat didn’t seem to hit the bottom. That would have been bad had the tide started to recede. The waters here a very clear and you could see right to the bottom. The white sand of the sand bar also help increase this impression. I noticed that the sand here is much coarser and the sand at Entalula Island. Perhaps there is some kind of complex mechanism going on here.
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