Undeveloped Islands

The undeveloped Islands offer features not found on the devloped ones, like natural caves with bats, natural lagoons, seclusion on isolated beaches, and more.

Cuenco Island

The landing at the mouth of Quinco Cave is rocky.	From the landing, you see through the cave to the far side.	You can walk through the cave end to end. Before there were many bats living in this cave.	Farmers used to collect the bat droppings as a natural organic fertilizer for their field.
As we were exiting the cave, we saw a team of UPMSI scientists.	They are a part of a PTA project to	restore the coral reefs and giant clams within the national park.

Marcos Island

Landing on Marcos Is. is easier with its sandy beach.	It contains Imelda Cave, which is a vertical cave or shaft	about 6 to 8 meters in diameter and 8 to 10 meters high.	During high tide the opening at the bottom of the shaft is underwater.
A trail leads to the top of the shaft where	local boys sometimes dive to the pool below.	From here you can see stalagtite formations	from the perculation of rainwater and many bats flying around.
One time, I was at the top of the shaft and heard music from inside.	This was during low tide and the mouth of the cave was big enough for a small fishing boat to enter.	The fisherman was probably taking a lunch break, had his guitar, and was singing native songs.	He was enjoying the natrual echo and reverb of the cave and so was I.

Cathedral Island

Milagrosa Island

Virgin Island