Malapascua Island, diving and snorkeling

So Filip, my new travel friend from Poland, and I made it from the overnight ferry 5 hours north on the bus to Maya, then on to Malapascua Island. It is a very low key diving destination north of Cebu Island. The main draw to the island are the Thresher sharks. We did a 6 am dive to try to see them, but only saw devil rays. We spent the rest of the day snorkeling the nearby reefs and exploring the island. The people there are great, like all of the Philippines. The children were the happiest. They loved speaking English to us as we walked through the villages. Life on Malapascua is very different, there are no roads, no cars only motor bikes. Most live in small huts with dirt floors. There were about 5 villages throughout the small island. The bones, well they are human remains. We had to walk through a cemetery for one of the dive spots and there was an open tomb and piles of bones with the bucket. It was on Halloween!