Tuesday 17th February 2015
11 degrees 50.763N
120 degrees 11.953E
Coron Harbour – Busuanga Island
Back on our faithful mooring
Depth 6.7m
At 3pm exactly we
arrived back in Coron Town, and found our faithful mooring waiting for us,
after all those days away – we left here early on the 8th. It almost feels like home…
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| Through the beautiful airy windows |
Yesterday we went
to Faros, the fabulous lighthouse tower resort, the one which looks like a
magical fairy castle.
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| Looking up up UP |
Jimmy, the owner,
builder, designer, formerly from Switzerland, was full of cheery chat and
information. He built this wonderful
little resort three years ago, with the help of 40 willing workers…most of whom
were employed simply to heave building materials up up UP the steep path, 40
metres straight to the top.
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| Jimmy walked down with us |
He says that yes
maybe he could install some sort of mechanism to haul materials up but…then the
40 willing workers would be out of a job.
“And,” he says, “they are very happy every Saturday to receive a nice
pay packet.”
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| Sandbags need to be lugged up UP |
We ate lunch –
extremely delicious. I had fish, fresh
and fabulous; Pete had chicken adobo.
And – we made use of Jimmy’s WiFi.
It kept going off because he kept getting phone calls and wandering off
to talk…I think his phone was the hotspot, so we had to wait for him to come
wandering back to get re-connected.
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| 2XS barely visible between the men, between the bushes, way down below |
Never mind…it was
just lovely up there.
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| Jimmy's workers were lugging green bamboo poles, very heavy, very long, right up to a new building site |
Jimmy and his wife
have just returned from a whirlwind two week holiday in Australasia. They went to Tasmania. I asked what they saw and he laughed and
said, “Hobart, and the old prison.” And
a wildlife park along the way, with some very fight-y Tasmanian devils having a
go at each other.
Three birthdays today
Cam Morrisby (Pete’s oldest friend)
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| Cam and Pete |
Nic Barnes (Michael’s oldest friend)
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| Michael and Nick |
Heather McKenny (one of my oldest friends)
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| Heather |
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