Showing posts with label Boracay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boracay. Show all posts
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Boracay Photos
I wrote something earlier but it ended up in the bottom of the page after I uploaded the pictures from my hard drive. I cut what I had written with the intention of pasting it to the top of the page but found that I could not and lost what I had cut! The bitch I had if I remember correctly was that I could not upload pictures from Flickr from Blogger. In any case, the photos are up and I no longer have the patience to figure out if they can be rearranged once uploaded. This should be so much easier that it is. By the way, if anyone happens upon this blog, please drop me a line to let me know it was worth all the effort.
Boracay Revisited
This is my first time to use this Blogger and Fickr so this is an attempt which I hope works well enough to continue. I started blogging some time back on mostly travels and restaurants and this grew to 3 blogs and several websites until I just got sick of keeping them updated and completely gave up on them. I have since taken to photography and mostly posted these in Facebook to share with friends. I found that Flickr has a nice way of grouping and tagging the photos and I also discovered that it can be linked to Blogger. Great!
Anyway, I start with my most recent trip to Boracay. Actually, it was a very long trip that involved a drive down to the Batangas port (2 hours), a Ro-Ro ride to Calapan on Mindoro Island (2 hours), a drive across Mindoro to a place called Roxas (2 hours), another Ro-Ro ride to Caticlan in Panay (4 hours), and a drive to Iloilo CIty (4 hours). This was the first leg of the trip and me an my staff (it was official buisness) spent 2 nights in Iloilo. Then it was another drive back to Caticlan from where we went to the fair island of Boracay. After another 2 nights, I commuted to Kalibo (1 hour) from where I took a flight back home to Manila. The rest of the staff drove back/rode back a few days later.
This was my 4th or 5th trip to the island but having only recently gotten a proper DSLR, it was my first time to shoot there. Mind you, I think that the place is going to the pits. But just like Baguio, it beckons and it is hard to resist everytime a opportunity comes. I first visited Boracay in the 80's and already everyone was complaining about overcrowding and overdevelopment and I have watched it deteriorate over the years. Anyway, this is only my opinion and others, specially first-timers, still feel the allure.
In any case, I was blessed with a gorgeous sunset on my second day there. Titled God's Glory, one must wonder how there can be atheists with such beauty. So I hope you will enjoy the rest of the pictures when I figure out how to post the rest of them. For now, I am about to click this button that says POST ENTRY. I am doing this from Flickr and not from Blogger so let's see what comes out.
Anyway, I start with my most recent trip to Boracay. Actually, it was a very long trip that involved a drive down to the Batangas port (2 hours), a Ro-Ro ride to Calapan on Mindoro Island (2 hours), a drive across Mindoro to a place called Roxas (2 hours), another Ro-Ro ride to Caticlan in Panay (4 hours), and a drive to Iloilo CIty (4 hours). This was the first leg of the trip and me an my staff (it was official buisness) spent 2 nights in Iloilo. Then it was another drive back to Caticlan from where we went to the fair island of Boracay. After another 2 nights, I commuted to Kalibo (1 hour) from where I took a flight back home to Manila. The rest of the staff drove back/rode back a few days later.
This was my 4th or 5th trip to the island but having only recently gotten a proper DSLR, it was my first time to shoot there. Mind you, I think that the place is going to the pits. But just like Baguio, it beckons and it is hard to resist everytime a opportunity comes. I first visited Boracay in the 80's and already everyone was complaining about overcrowding and overdevelopment and I have watched it deteriorate over the years. Anyway, this is only my opinion and others, specially first-timers, still feel the allure.
In any case, I was blessed with a gorgeous sunset on my second day there. Titled God's Glory, one must wonder how there can be atheists with such beauty. So I hope you will enjoy the rest of the pictures when I figure out how to post the rest of them. For now, I am about to click this button that says POST ENTRY. I am doing this from Flickr and not from Blogger so let's see what comes out.
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