Danjugan Series 2 (Danjugan Island Marine Reserve & Wildlife Sanctuary is a privately-owned island under barangay Bulata in Cauayan Negros Occidental. It is open to those who pass the application process to experience conservation work for species and habitats.) WEST VIEW. A view deck at … Continue reading Incidental Marine Life Lessons
Danjugan Series 1 (Danjugan Island Marine Reserve & Wildlife Sanctuary is a privately-owned island under barangay Bulata in Cauayan Negros Occidental. It is open to those who pass the application process to experience conservation work for species and habitats. While it has board and lodging … Continue reading Meeting the Tabon bird
My article: “From terrorism to ecotourism” was published in Sun.Star Davao last February 17, 2019. Here is the link: https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1792911/Davao/Weekend/From-terrorism-to-ecotourism A screenshot as it appeared in the Sun.Star website. I’m copying the full text here just to make sure that it stays online even when … Continue reading The Liguasan of tomorrow
Like Cateel, Baganga is also an old town, thus there were still a few old wooden houses there, pre-Pablo. Not anymore. From Bislig, where we were assured of concrete and landslide-free road, Baganga is around three hours and 20 minutes father down south through the … Continue reading Baganga at last (More Pablo wastelands)
It was our first morning in Liloan, Cebu. I haven’t quite shed off the weariness of regular work, and so was not willing to wake up by sunrise to greet the morning hello, despite the encouragement of the caretaker outside our room the day before. … Continue reading A good morning
We're still underwater, from my collection of years ago. Since we've already tackled "connections", here are some of those photos I most treasure because of the subjects' seeming willingness to have their portraits taken. It's a joy to establish such connection with creatures in the … Continue reading Portraiture… of the underwater kind
I’m not into the occult nor into elementals. I cringe at those who dress up like gypsies and dance under the full moon. I just instinctively know that we, humans, are just sharing this world with everyone else and all it needs is for someone … Continue reading Conversation series: Curious cowfish
What will you do if the current was too strong such that it looked like there was a sand storm at the bottom? You simple fin back toward the beach and converse with a blenny. Yes, converse. And yes, a blenny. A fish. Hey, there. … Continue reading Conversation series: Imaginary monologue
The devil stinger fish wasn’t named such for nothing. Known also as demon stinger (Inimicus didactylus), it is related to the venomous stonefish. It is covered with venomous spines, but most of all, it is plain ugly. I usually see them black with yellowish, “snake-y” … Continue reading The devil
I was saving what I could from my Multiply account following the announcement that it will be chucking out social media type of service when I saw this entry about what we as children called “baboy-baboy”. Baboy-baboy was a favorite catch among us children then. … Continue reading Baboy-baboy alias antlion
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