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February 25, 2005. As people were remembering EDSA in MAnila, I was in Sumilon, supposedly to clean up some crown-of-thorns starfish. Ended up walking around the island on the pathway right on the cliff. It was my first time to see everything (technically, not everything, since I still didn't get to see the lighthouse and the watchtower), because the last time, I just took a boat around the island after the dive.

The view overwhelemed me so much, I wrote a story (yes, a true one, on what's happening there now) on it when I got back home.

Comments

  1. Bugoy Traveler PHMarch 8, 2005 at 3:20 AM

    WOW! simply divine!

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  2. roland dcMarch 8, 2005 at 5:48 AM

    Thirst

    Dry...
    Hard...
    Stiff...
    And yet
    Alive

    = )

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  3. roland dcMarch 8, 2005 at 5:51 AM

    Joy

    Green
    White
    Blue
    All of them
    Add joy to LIFE

    = )

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  4. sunny castilloMarch 8, 2005 at 7:06 AM

    phenomenal shot! this is like postcard at its best!

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  5. sunny castilloMarch 8, 2005 at 7:07 AM

    my goodness, is this the philippines?! i feel so deprived.

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  6. sunny castilloMarch 8, 2005 at 7:11 AM

    ... so beautiful. just beautiful! the contrast between the blue water and the verdant mangroves is a feast to an artist's eyes.

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  7. Byron CanedaMarch 8, 2005 at 4:21 PM

    These are really beautiful pictures..
    U finally got urself a digicam? =)

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  8. Jeneen GarciaMarch 8, 2005 at 6:07 PM

    nope. still using my good old sturdy (and heavy) manual SLR =) but instead of having the pictures printed and scanning them myself, i have the negatives scanned at kodak so i can easily post the pix online. much cheaper that way too.

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  9. XXXX YYYYMarch 8, 2005 at 8:37 PM

    all these pictures are beautiful! each one is different...

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  10. Byron CanedaMarch 11, 2005 at 1:18 AM

    Pwede diay na? So you bring with you ur negatives and a disk, and they "scan" it and it comes out in softcopy?... wow, now pa ko =)

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  11. bella lunaApril 27, 2006 at 11:34 PM

    great foreground! Hey 'te jeneen, Mikael told me Andrea Teran got into Iyas National Writers Workshop. Late bloomer... Hehehe.

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  12. nonxpert ™June 19, 2006 at 6:49 AM

    amazing! walang ganyan sa states.

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  13. nonxpert ™June 19, 2006 at 6:54 AM

    is this where we can see when pass bohol straight going to tagbilaran, southern part of cebu?

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  14. nonxpert ™June 19, 2006 at 6:56 AM

    Wow!!! let's go there arv tog. with the our group?

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  15. January Kristi MigalbinSeptember 25, 2007 at 8:47 AM

    isa lang ba ang resort sa island? ka-mahal =P

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  16. Jeneen GarciaSeptember 29, 2007 at 5:22 AM

    yes. i don't agree with it, either. especially since it's public land :P but the island's so small, there's no way it can handle more resorts, or anything bigger. the government should make access more democratic, though.

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