Philippines fish - a couple of photos from the Boac fish market

One of the constants about living in Marinduque is fish - power comes and goes, you can buy beef on a Sunday, but even on a bad day you can be sure that there will be fish at the market. Today I took my camera with me and snapped a couple of photos. It was slightly late, so the selection wasn't as big as usual, but still interesting.


The fish on the left of this photo, looking like mullet, are known locally as 'Bangus' and are very popular - I haven't treid them yet. The ones at the centre are Maya-Maya (red) and Lapu-Lapu (brown), two species of grouper. The slices in the pan to the top left are my soon-to-be supper.


an overhead shot - I have no idea what the fish looking like a big red mudskipper is, but it's bigger cousin now lives in my stomach - and it was really good! The red fish central to the photo is a maya maya, and the silver/blue ones next to it are small tuna.



Fish is very fresh, and suprisingly affordable. My fish today cost 120 pesos a kilo, 140 for the whole fish. Couldn't get those prices in Europe for sure!

Firefly, Firefly ..

the little lights that can be seen in the photo the trail left by a firefly .. it's a 6 second exposure. I was just testing my camera after having solved a long-standing battery problem (a couple of batteries I had bought off ebay have a tendency of blowing up chargers .. I fixed my last blown up charger by replacing the 12v power supply, and got myself a new battery, and all is fine!).

The 'firefly' was really a tiny light brown beetle-like critter .. about 8mm long.

A rainy day ...

it's been raining all day today, and when I say raining I mean really raining - very heavily. In the afternoon we went to Boac to get something for supper - I bought 3 small yellowfin tuna, total of 750g, for the grand sum of 90 pesos. The woman at the stall even filleted them for me!

This evening I saw the biggest gecko i've ever seen in my life, he was in our WC, probably came in to shelter from the rain outside - the WC roof is made of steel, and there are cracks a gecko, even a big one, can get in through. This particular gecko was about a foot long including his tail, and a sort of blueish colour with red dots - very beautiful for a gecko! There are a number of smaller geckos living in the apartment, they hunt at night and you can hear them calling. I let them be - they control the insects, which is a bonus.


a bit of further research reveals that this was a 'Tokay gecko'