Beach Walk To San Jose
Back from that long walk along Aroma Beach, I took my second shower of the day at exactly 7:50AM! Just a quick one, on this hot humid day. Summer has started, I guess!
But what was I to do other than sit out at the beach-side tables of my resort? Itchy feet ruled again… I walked leftwards to town center via the beach – opposite direction of my stroll earlier on this same beach. Here we go…
Getting to be nicer (clearer) views as the sun inched up...
There are the islands again… Illin, Ambulong and little White Island…
Noticeably no people on this part of the beach. Why?
I walked faster hehehe!
Fishing boats anchored some distance from the shore…
Here’s the reason.. they are actually big boats! This one is on dry dock for repairs.
These boats just look small or regular-sized when afloat. They’re enormous, actually!
Here is another one… a boat-in-the-making! Can you see the man up there?
Hey I learned something new! See those pipes running along the hull of this boat?
Now am still imagining how that works! At least I already learned it’s a cooling thing!
I saw small boats darting between the shore and those big boats. What for?
Here’s an example: They were like running because the containers are heavy...
Another new boat…
See?! Quite a realization I learned having walked this way. Who needs a shipyard? In San Jose, they do their boats right on their yards - the beach that is! Lovely isn't it?!
Oh, And there is White Island again… ah it was like teasing me! Calling at me!!!
Aside from the boats, I of course also saw other snippets of life and industry in and around this side of San Jose. Here are some...
Unloading bamboo furniture from a boat...
These guys were willing enough to answer my questions...
And they do charcoal too! Owned, or being handled by the same bamboo men...
It got me thinking... sometimes education the way we in the metropolis have learned it, is actually dangerous to nature. Take their craft and their products for an example... if anyone got to them telling them how to find the "proper" markets, or how to sell "effectively", their products would have a lot of buyers causing them to make more, beyond what the life-cycle of wood and bamboo can provide, causing denudation of the forests! Unless they're planting those trees and bamboos, which I can't imagine!
Anyway...
There were children on this part of the beach too!
Saw this boat ready to depart for the islands and I was craving to ride with it…
Nearby, after a little island, was their public market where I walked to. I would have wanted to snap pics of this and that, but I was passing amidst a lot of shore-side huts where almost all men didn’t wear shirts and curiously looking at me. Afraid! Hahaha!
So I just briskly walked past everything and emerged on the street to hail a tricycle. Where to? Ah, that is a fantastic find I’ll tell you in the next entry. Promise!
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