Phoneography challenge: my neighborhood
So this week’s photography challenge is “My Neighborhood”. To make it even more interesting, all the photos should have been taken using a mobile phone. At present, my “neighborhood” for most of the month is Bacuit Bay in El Nido, Palawan, Philippines. It’s got to be one of the most beautiful places in the world....
Waiting outside
When the water level gets too low, large boats can’t get into the Big Lagoon anymore. The boats end up outside the Lagoon and tied to a mooring buoy while their guests either kayak or snorkel + walk in.
PHOTOS: Fire on the beach
After welcoming the new year with fireworks, our guides and their supervisor decided to pull out all the stops and do a firedancing routine on the boardwalk. They were originally supposed to do in on platforms in the water but the Engineering guys decided to ignore their advice and installed the platforms too far away...
Fireworks to ring in the new year
What better way to welcome the new year than with photos of fireworks? These are my favorites from the bunch of photos I took, although I think my photos last year were better. And some words of wisdom from my favorite captain: HAPPY NEW YEAR!
My long absence and Christmas Eve on the island
My long absence from this blog is due to my graduate thesis. It’s all my thesis’ fault! I took 2.5 months off work so that I could work on it full-time in Manila. Unfortunately, those 2.5 months were not enough as my adviser had me do more analysis work to get the results we wanted....
Along the wall
I prefer taking landscape photos instead of wall photos but hey, if the view is nice, anything goes Thank you Sir Bobbit for being an excellent model! Lagen Wall, Lagen Island, El Nido, Palawan, Philippines.
Exploring Fuerza de Santa Isabel
After the 12 days straight of nature interpretation training in Miniloc and Lagen, we moved to Apulit in Taytay for Batch 4 of the training. It wasn’t included in our original schedule but we reconfigured it once we found out that the Pangulasian “Shark Squad” would be in Apulit and available to take over for...
Travel theme: Sunset
I’d like to thank Ailsa for giving me an excuse to post sunset photos I didn’t want to torture myself trying to decide which of the numerous (and equally memorable) sunset photos I’ve taken over the years to post, so I went with just the newest ones instead. I took these last August 17, 2012...
Soft corals on the wall
I willingly admit that wall dives aren’t my favorite kind of dive. I prefer wide open reef flats to hugging a wall and seeing nothing on the other side. Maybe it’s my claustrophobia kicking in: I’m also not fond of night dives, despite the amazing critters that come out once the sun sets. Despite the...
A full belly and aching feet in Puerto Princesa
The previous post is up here. Yes, it’s taken me this long to write about the second part of my Puerto Princesa adventures. This trip happened last July 8-9. *hangs head in shame* We woke up at 7am because we needed to get an early start for the day’s activities. The latest we could leave...
Eating my way through Puerto Princesa
I work in El Nido, a municipality on the northwestern side of Palawan. The funny thing is that people are always surprised they I tell them it takes 6 hours non-stop to travel from El Nido to Puerto Princesa by land. First: Puerto Princesa is on the opposite side of Palawan so you travel via...
Jeanne
Awesome! My kind of girl!
Macy
Thank you! It does feel good to be recognized for
Zezee
Lol yea, sometimes I wish I didn't leave lol.
