Mogpog (Sunrise)

a lovely view on the road to Mogpog .. very early to get the fast ferry to Lucena on time ..




islands in the bay near Mogpog





one of the ancient ferries that does the Mogpog (Balanacan Port) to Lucena (Dalahican Port) trips .. if you look carefully there are japanese names painted over beneath the newly painted filipino names .. i'd guess these ferries were scrapped in Japan a while ago ..





can't say the view isn't wonderful though!



our favourite power outage generator ..



and the friendly National Power guys who put their slogans on trashcans!
I think in the meaning of 'excellence' here is used VERY flexibly ..

Panoramic shots taken in Quatiz (Barangay Masiga, Gasan - Marinduque)

These are some panoramic shots I took near my construction site in Masiga, Gasan. They were taken as multiple shots and then stitched together, the one at the back of the house is over 360 degrees! They are mapped in a cylindrical projection, click the images for versions with much higher resolution (and still a lot lower than the resolution of the original panoramics .. the big one is over 18,000 pixels wide!)

Mito's photos - taken by a four year old!

I'd say the kid has a surprising eye for composition :)




and here is Mito himself, putting on a pose, and yours truly (with the 'Hungriest Cookie t-shirt) together with the engineer taking care of the construction work.

Construction - 2nd day

Construction of my new house in Masiga (Gasan Region) started yesterday, and today I went to take a look at the plot to see how work is progressing .. I was quite amazed! lots of people working at the same time, and seems that the foundations have already been excavated. I took a few photos while I was there, here they are

a couple of photos ..

this is the view from my plot in Gasan, looking out to sea ..



























and this is me playing King of the Castle (well .. the castle has yet to be built .. out of sand maybe?)



this is a panoramic photo of the beach, with the sun at my back.

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'