Hoho's Log

More on my trip...

Here are more pictures from my most recent trip to Manila.

Here we are, relaxing at the beach house after our dives.

L-R: Me, Paulyne, Don (standing) and Apples, photo by Noel:

"Go fly a kite!", we told Don, and he did. That's me across checking my dive computer, and partially visible is Apples. Photo again by Noel.

Here's a shot right before we put on our gear, that's Cel, Roger and myself, again, the official photographer on my dive trips, Noel Dino.

That last day of diving was fun. Getting to the dive site was a bit rough with 2-3 foot swells getting to Maricaban Island. On the other side of the island, where we dove, the water was flat, since it gets shielded by both Maricaban Island and partially by Bonito Island.

Here we are at the Outrigger Dive Resort in Anilao, Batangas, our take off point for Maricaban Island, Noel finally gets his face in one of the pictures:

Here's what the view outside looked like before dark:

That's Taal Volcano. The restaurant, and the ridge of Tagaytay is the edge of the big crater. There's a smaller crater in the middle of the lake with another lake in the crater. Yes, that's a lake in a crater in a lake in a crater in a volcano. Whew. Stories told about the last time that Taal Volcano erupted was, that the eruption was so strong that it threw fish up from the lake down to the city about 75kms to the North. True Story? I dunno, maybe.