Posts published during November, 2010
My parents had my sister, Tisay, baptized last October 30 in our maternal hometown in Bulacan. It was like a debut of sorts for her, since she’s now legally a part of the family, so my parents invited more than a hundred guests to a post-baptism lunch banquet of sorts.
October 23, 2010. We went back to Coron town after the day-long tour of Coron island. We had the entire late afternoon off to rest.
After breakfast the next day, before we proceeded to the airport for our flight back to Manila, I walked around town to take photos.
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October 23, 2010. Our last stop in our day-tour of Coron Island was Twin Lagoon, a pair of emerald blue lagoons of clear waters enveloped by towering limestone formations. The two lagoons are separated by a small hole which sinks underwater on high tide. It wasn’t high tide at the time we were there so we were able to swim through the hole and get to the other lagoon hiding behind the limestone wall. There’s a wooden platform right above the hole in case guests would like to get to the other side on high tide.
The waters of the lagoons are, like that of Kayangan Lake, brackish, a mixture of salt and fresh water. More noticeably, the waters of Twin Lagoon are a mixture of cold and warm water. For the most part, the lagoons’ waters are warm, then there are parts when currents of cold water would swoosh beneath. There are parts when the opposite is true. It was quite odd, but an interesting feeling nonetheless.
I wasn’t able to take photos of the second lagoon, behind the limestone walls. Our banca was parked several meters away from the access hole, and taking my non-underwater camera while swimming in waters a dozen meters deep would be risky.
Swimming on your back with your floaters on at the second lagoon can be quite a serene experience. Shadowed and walled in by the towering limestone cliffs, there’s that certain feeling of calmness and security as you wade through the brackish waters of the lagoon. It was a good end to a day-long tour of Coron Island.
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October 23, 2010. After spending almost an hour basking and swimming in Kayangan Lake, we proceeded to Banol Beach in another cove within Coron Island. It took us around fifteen to twenty minutes by boat to get to Banol Beach from the cove where we docked for Kayangan Lake.
Banol Beach is a small beach, but no less stunning and awesome as the many white sand beaches in Palawan, or in the Philippines for that matter. The beach is made up of a short stretch of white sand (no, not powdery, as some travel blogs exaggerate) interrupted by limestone boulders jutting out from the cliffs that wall out the beach from the rest of the island.
law student, national democracy activist, film school graduate, photography hobbyist