Palawan 2015: Matinloc’s Dark Secret
March 9, 2015: There’s trouble in paradise. I’m not talking about the amount of garbage left behind by the hundreds of tourists that descend on Matinloc Island every day. There […]
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Palawan 2015: Matinloc Island
March 9-11, 2015: Approaching the southern tip of Matinloc Island, we didn’t get much of a sense of what lay in store for us. Looking at our chart, we knew […]
Palawan 2015: Around Bacuit Bay
March 7-9, 2015: A week in El Nido was more than ample time for us. We were ready to get away from it all and see some more of the […]
Palawan 2015: Coron to El Nido
February 26-28, 2015: This is our third adventure into Palawan province, reportedly the most beautiful and natural region of the Philippines…although development is moving in quick as more and more […]
Palawan 2015: Subic to Coron
February 21-25, 2015: When Chris arrived back in Subic on February 17, he had a couple of projects to tackle before we could set off on our Palawan adventures on […]
Eighth Stop, Tara Island
February 4, 2014: When we were originally planning this trip (as well as the one we took in April last year) our target destination was El Nido on Palawan Island. […]
Seventh Stop, Culion
February 3, 2014: The next stop on our Busuanga Island circumnavigation took us a little off the beaten track to the town of Culion, just a short hop across the […]
Sixth Stop, Storm Shelter
January 31 – February 2, 2014: Tropical depression evolving into a tropical storm. Category two storm warnings posted for Northern Palawan. Storm expected to pass overhead on Saturday evening. Winds […]
Fifth Stop, Sangat Island
January 29-31, 2014: After a leisurely start to the day, with coffee and two gigantic fresh fruit platters for breakfast, we set off for our next destination, Sangat Island. It […]
Fourth Stop, Diving in Coron Bay
January 22-27, 2014: One of the attractions drawing us back to Northern Palawan again is a big cluster of shipwrecks sunk in and around Coron Bay during World War II. […]
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