Tabo beach bliss

Let's see...hmm...it's July...yep, rainy season.

A friend went to Boracay recently, expecting a myriad of tanned bodies sunbathing in the nude, and parties till dawn. What he saw was a deserted beach and coconut trees swaying quite violently in the wind. The beach babes? More like middle-aged beached whales. Hehe.

Or maybe I'm just envious. I've never been to the place. I am an hour's plane ride away from what the rest of the world knows as paradise, and I've never even felt nor seen a grain of the legendary white sand.

They say that even at high noon in summer's hottest day, the sand is cool, light, much like baby powder. Is that true?

And that no matter how small the island is or how many thousands of tourists there are, you can still find yourself the perfect quiet spot to strip to nothing and live as Adam. Or Eve. Or both. Is that true?

Is it also true that child prostitution is so rampant there? That the magnificent blue water is tainted with E. coli? That if you're Filipino, you won't get the same quality of service from restaurants or hotels than if you were a foreigner? That the corals surrounding the beach are dead from so much human activity?

Somebody take me to Boracay!!!