The next Gucci Gang haunt

Comes now the start of the demise of the beaches of Caramoan, with these ominous lines from an Inquirer story:

But the fourth-class municipality is expected to achieve celebrity
status soon enough, with foreign productions completing filming and
development projects in place. Even now it is being touted as the next
Boracay.

My emphasis. Even as we read those gleeful lines, Pinoy trend-whores and greedy real estate developers are making plans to slowly transform this place into a beachfront The Fort... but with a golf course. Yes, just like Boracay, which was once one of my favorite destinations back when it was a quiet little island. I remember envying a friend of mine who has been there before it had electricity; how she recounted the sights on cloudless nights when the moon was full and when there wasnt any moon you could see stars, millions of stars. I recalled the days before Mauban got its powerplant, how one night, on the way to the island of Patnanongan, near Polillio island in Quezon, I was trying to sleep off a hearty beer-lubricated dinner on the roof of the boat that was going to take us there at dawn, and looking up, saw the Milky Way for the first time. That was what I imagined Boracay was like when my friend went there as a kid.

They now call it Bora. You know a place is going to the dogs when it acquires a trendy nickname. Coming soon: Cara.