August 9, 2007, Began our Filipino odyssey. We landed in Manila and then worked our way down to Boracay, Cebu, and Palawan before jumping over to Bali, Indonesia for a few days. We spent a lot of time hanging out in small beach towns looking for dive sites. On this trip was Matt, Chad and myself.
An old 1500’s church in Manila
Random Manila street shot
Two guys on the Highway proud of their chickens
He kept displaying different chickens
Tagaytay, We would end up walking down this mt.
A popular transport, a bike with a small cart
All three of us crammed into the cart
Boracay at our beach side resort
This is our bungalow, The beach was 100 yds right.
Us relaxing on the porch of our bungalow
Matt trying to do an anti-rain dance
A front view from the beach of our resort
A shot of the beach front bars and tattoo parlor
Matt and Me getting tattoos in said parlor
the other direction down the beach front
Boracay beach shot
More Boracay beach shots
Me attempting to get into the SI Swimsuit edition
Diving in Boracay
A sea turtle we spotted by some man made reefs
Matt, Chad and the dive master
I forgot what kind of fish these are. Snapper?
Crazy looking Lion Fish
Variety of Fish
My view on the tiny plane from Boracay to Cebu
Matt and Chad hoping for the best out of our plane
Shitty plane, but incredible views
Video footage in case the plane crashed
The miniscule airport in Palawan
On Palawan in Sabang we got a cheap bungalow
Inside the Bungalow. Mosquito nets are great
Matt and Chad demonstrating the nets
The view from our Bungalow’s porch
Preparing to hike 5km to the Underground river
The view from our Beach of the mountains
Hiking to the river, getting closer to the Mountains
Matt decides to take an Aqua dump in the ocean
Luckily there was no one around on that beach
The aqua dump drove Matt crazy, he hits Chad
Very rickety bridges on the trek to the river
Where the beach meets the jungle
jungle trek photos
This long “bridge” was at the top of the mountain
It snaked up and down very dodgy terrain.
Monitor lizards looking for food, or small children
The jungle was full of monkeys
This monkey was letting it all hang out
We took a boat into this underground river
Matt and Chad snorkeling
Matt learns the importance of sunscreen
Me and Chad doing what we do best, waiting
Our patience paid off, Bumped to 1st class
Our resort in Kuta, Bali, Indonesia
Us chilling by the pool side bar
A restaurant in Bali
One of the Bali dives was a walk in dive
A school of fish trying to look bigger than it is
A fish trying to hide from me
Bali Scuba shots
Bali Scuba shots
Hard to see, but there is a tiny fish on the right
Big, ugly, unknown fish
angry clown fish, cause I’m too close to home
Bali scuba shots
Bali scuba shots
Chad approaching a fish funnel
They make the funnel to fool predators
Up close to fishy funnel
Bali scuba shots
Bali Scuba shot
Bali scuba shots
Bali scuba shots
Bali scuba shots
Bali scuba shots
Bali scuba shots
The wreck of USS Liberty, sunk in WW II
