There’s something beautiful and inspiring about people born and raised on islands. The resilience (maybe gotten from the direct impacts of storm surges and typhoons), the patience in the harsh sun (could be how it’s toughened their skin against petty pain), the choice to keep life grounded and simple—just the overall sunny attitude. The people of Romblon are the epitomes, being surrounded by the notoriously unpredictable yet biodiverse Sibuyan Sea.
Romblon is every thalassophile’s nirvana, a calendar full of barefoot days, truly made for ocean people. Stay along the western coastline of Tablas Island in the summer for a spectacle in the sky almost every sundown. Make it even better with silhouettes of the coconut trees on San Andres’ Agpudlos Beach, or just the mere fact that Santa Fe shares skies with Boracay.
It just really might be a geographical effect or something to imbibe or to whisper to the salty wind.
