Milagrosa Shipping Is one option to use when traveling to Puerto Princessa from Panay. It’s handy for overlanders that are coming from Boracay and want to head to Palawan with out backtracking.
Milagrosa has 2 boats - the bigger one leaves Iloilo at 7pm Monday nite and the smaller one leaves on Thursday nite.
The pier is [...]
Meet Chaw - owner of Chaw Rubber Bushings under the overpass in Talisay Cebu. He recycles old truck tires by carving them into bushings for motor mounts, vibration dampeners, shock absorbers, and any other application you can think off.
Chaw
I always respect a man that is highly skilled and is proud of his work. Chaw is [...]
Buying Land in the Philippines
One of the biggest dangers in the Philippines - for the foreigner, is to get the idea to buy land with money he can not afford to loose. Foreigners may not own land in the Philippines - he must find someone willing to put the title in their name when they [...]
Super Cat Ferry
The Supercat Fast Ferry Corporation
Pier 4, North Reclamation Area
Cebu City, 6000 Philippines
TIN 215-277-474-001-VAT
www.SuperCat.com.ph
The Super Cat Schedule effective October 2009
Cebu to Ormoc 05:45 AM, 11:00 AM, 04:40PM
Ormoc to Cebu 08:20 AM, 01:45 PM, 07:15PM
Cebu to Tagbilaran 08:30AM, 12:30PM, 04:30PM
Tagbilaran to Cebu 10:30AM, 02:30PM, 06:30PM
Bacolod to Iloilo 06:00AM, 09:00AM, 12:00NN, 03:15PM
Iloilo to Bacolod 07:30AM, 10:30AM, [...]
Butanding Patay - It was a bummer that this 5 meter whale shark was found dead, bobbing up and down in the Manila bay last week.
The picture in the paper shows the whale shark wrapped up in a net but it had been used to tow the fish ashore, and the cause of death was [...]
Island hopping with a motorbike in the Philippines is one way to see a lot of the country.
Here is an account of a trip from Ormoc, Leyte to Balabac, Palawan.
A typhoon was approaching so I decided not to delay and got on the next boat from Ormoc to Cebu City. This is a run that [...]
There’s always a buzz of activity along the waterfront in the channel between Cebu City and Mactan Island. It’s the hub for transportation, shipping, and industry in the Visayas. Scrap yards full of iron to be recycled, oil tanks for Petron, fire boats, ferries, fishing vessels and bridges make it kind of interesting.
Here two police [...]
Shipwreck
In the words of Freddie Mercury - and another one gone, and another one gone, another one bites the dust!
The Abu Sayaf and the New Peoples Army are often cited as reasons for foreigners to fear traveling in the Philippines, but the lackluster attention paid to safe sailing between the islands makes sea voyages a [...]
Buying Goldfish
Only in the Philippines would you expect a vendor to be selling goldfish from a motorcycle with a side cart.
This mobile tropical fish store on wheels was well planned. Two large black rubbish bins held the water and tanks were set up on top on a piece of plywood. There was a battery operated [...]
Weekend in Catbalogan - Samar
I hopped on my motorbike and drove the 220 kilometers to Catbalogan in about 4 1/2 hours. There was no rain and the road was beautiful, complete with white center stripes and a gold painted edges.
This wouldn’t sound like a big deal to someone that has never been to Samar - [...]