Boatman Protecting the Cave and Our Boat
We were parked outside the Cathedral Cave which is a cave formed in one of the island of the Bacuit Archipelago in El Nido. The island itself didn’t seem to have any beach as it was only a dome shaped island, much like a turtle. The cave is in one side of the island and it has an entrance to let the water in. We stopped right at the entrance and we weren’t allowed to swim inside the cave due to safety issues. We were just starting inside the cave from the outside. As what you might expect, there wasn’t much to see from the outside and it was quite disappointing. Our boatman was trying to steady the boat, keeping it from hitting the cave, as well as keeping it from damaging the boat by physically pushing against the entrance of the cave.
The Entrance of the Cathedral Cave at El Nido
I would have wanted to see more of the cave but jellyfish sting isn’t really something I look forward to. Our boat, with its outriggers, was too wide to go in the boat, so we were content to just look from the outside. We did have a small kayak but somehow this didn’t seem to be an option for our boatman. Perhaps it is because of safety issues. Either way, we didn’t go in at all. There wasn’t much to see from the outside since it was too dark inside and we needed some darkness to see more of the cave. Perhaps some other time of the year where the jellyfish weren’t so plentiful that we would be able to visit it. For now, it remains a mystery for me.
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