Zambales '08 3: Subic Tour (Spanish Gate, Shipwreck)

Dec. 22, 2008: SBMA tour before our diving and the day after our unplanned mountain & cave hiking and education outreach program.

We went to three places that I had failed to visit during my first Subic tour a few weeks earlier: the San Roque church, the gate to the old Spanish naval yard, and a museum for a Manila-Acapulco galleon shipwreck, along with a ship replica by the sea.

Pagkatapos magliwaliw ng buong umaga, bumalik kami sa Boardwalk Dive Center (owned by sir George Ang Dy Pay, at kung saan kami natulog) para mananghalian at maghanda sa diving adventure...at nasa susunod na album na 'yun.

Halo-halo na dito ang mga kuha mula sa cam ko, kay Ynna, at kay ms. Beng. Pagpasensyahan niyo ang mga pangit kong kuha -- medyo bago-bago pa ang DSLR ko nito at wala pa akong muwang sa tamang composition, among others.

Full album list of our 12/08 Zambales trip:

• Part 1: Impromptu Mountain & Cave Trekking


• Part 2: Teaching Poetry, Mayor's Party


• Part 3: Subic Tour (Spanish Gate to Shipwreck)


• Part 4: Subic Bay Diving (Again!)

Trip background: Two years ago, the poets of LIRA traveled north to teach poetry to teachers & students in Sta. Cruz, Zambales under the "Sining ng Tugma at Sukat" program of LIRA & the NCCA, under the leadership of sir Michael M. Coroza & then-LIRA President Beverly W. Siy. (STS Overall Project Coordinator pa lang ako nito, and 2 months away from being elected LIRA President. Kaya mukha pa akong totoy!)

2nd time ko palang pumunta sa Zambales for 2008 (the first time for STS Subic, and yes, my first diving experience).

This album is a bittersweet reminiscing, too: this was the first and last time that we were on an out-of-town trip with poet-mountaineer Mark Schwab, who joined his creator in 2009. Pre, pakitagay mo na lang kami sa mga anghel ha.