By DYAN CASTILLEJO-GARCIA

It's that time when the girls bust out their bikinis, the boys bring on their board shorts, and head to the most sought after strip of beach in the land: Boracaya

A gathering of top models, designers, directors, writers, actors and sun worshipers hook up to kick-off one of the biggest and toughest events Boracay has ever seen: "The Forever Summer Campaign" had the island all abuzz.

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Summer is synonymous with beach and fun under the sun.

Boracay and its mayor, Dong Cawaling made sure that the fun on his island will be talked about long after the summer is over.

Some say to "save the best for last," but the island of Boracay decided to "bring out the best first" by kicking off the summer with this forever summer campaign.

Top models, designers, directors, actors, writers and Boracay sun-worshipers hooked up to kick-off this one-of-a kind awesome race around the island.

All the participants in this awesome race were divided into six teams that could be identified by the bandanas each team member wore.

There was the Black team, the Purple team, the Blue team, the Red team, the White team and the Green team.

To start the race, five members of each team had to be tied together by their feet and race to a pole that was about 50 meters away.

The pole "marked the spot" where the team had to dig to find the map of the island.

Why did the team need a map of the island? That’s because they needed to go to 12 different resorts located from station 1 to station 3.

Each resort had a different task for each team to complete. Sounds pretty simple right? Wrong.

There were rules that had to be followed about how to get to the resorts and what had to be done before the team could start the task.

Rule # 1. The only way you can get from one resort to another was on foot. No flagging down of trikes. No riding piggy back on motor bikes. No pedi cabs. No getting on paraws, bancas, jetskis or speedboats. Nada. The only way was either to run or walk to resorts.

Rule # 2. The team can only start the task when all members have reached the resort. Only when every member of your team is in the resort can you start doing the assigned task. Take note, even if the task only calls for 1 or 2 members to do it, we repeat, all members must first reach the resort for the team to be allowed to start the task.

Rule # 3. Each team has the liberty to choose which of the 12 resorts they want to go to first but their time does not stop until the team gets to all 12 resorts and properly completes each resort's task.