Rakitdakit Rock Formation
What is it? A rock! That's it!
But it's nice to see from a distance, and all the more wondrous when you go near it!
It could be anything to any visitor, but one thing was for sure this time - I didn't want to go any nearer, even if my scooter driver was with me and urging me to go further!
I said "nebir butig", at humalakhak ang insik! Yep, Tsinoy ang driver ko, sociel ako!
Let's start from the very beginning...
3 minutes after the fallen rocks, driver swerved left and entered a private property.
He was telling me about the owner of this place, I heard everything but wasn't, at all, listening. Well I think I remember him saying 'lawyer' and/or 'councilor', I'm not sure.
Anyway, he said there is always a woman-caretaker, who works on this farm, mostly alone, that's why we couldn't see anyone who'd collect our fees. We entered anyway.
It's a short walk to the beach (around 50 meters). Oh we saw the manang along the path, tending to her plants. Then you see a scene like the 1st photo above. And this:
I had fun like a kid, trying to find or make out, what my driver was telling, that people who come here, have named some of those rocks and stones, with their likenesses!
Example: that promontory in the middle of the photo, is a giant "pawikan". I zoomed.
Honga! It looks like some reptile crawling out to shore. Driver said 'turtle nga sir, eh'!
O sya tortol na kung tortol, pawikan na kung pawikan! I enjoyed the creative discovery!
Actually, because the driver kept daring me, I went a few steps nearer. A few lang!
You can compare this image to the first picture above. You will know I moved just a bit forward and to the right. So yes, the face and base of the rock was clearer to me.
No, I will not go further! Nebir butig, nebir iday, iyoha it hahaha!
Maybe if I was in a group, kahit 5 lang tayo, go ako! Why is that?
Well, the surface on foreground, 'the approach' (it's already part of that rock), is part smooth and part craggy sharp. I was not sure if my driver was "enough help" if I fell.
Oh, here was something amazing that 'kind of' invited me to go nearer, though I was not properly garbed: that approach, that area where you'll walk towards the big rock.
It is not solid earth nor compact stone. It is full of many holes tiny and big (imagine a sink hole), so that, when waves go thru them, water would spout out like geyzers!
Aliw!
They are quite funtastic to chance-upon, although a bit of 'patience tester' since you don't know when is the next one and/or how strong. Sometimes it takes forever. Da!
Now, imagine it is hightide, and all the beach sand you see above is under seawater, where little waves lap on that shore - while bigger ones batter the back of that rock.
Ayayay! Another photo and video opportunity! Sorry me, it was lowtide hehe!
But having seen it, I imagined many things, that could use the place as backdrop or even the main location of a story. I however realized from my driver's stories, that, it has been done so many times, by many visitors to this place! Hindi na pala ako orig!
Anyway, here was my limousine and chauffeur as we prepared to leave the place.
Again, this is a private property, although promoted by the province's tourism office. Well, maybe just this beach where we entered to view the rocks from, not the rocks?
Maybe. It is a wide beach area. But driver says, where we entered and paid manang the entrance and parking fees, is the best way he knows in approaching those rocks.
That entrance and parking area, by the way, has no signs nor indicators that it might be the way to visit those rocks. Good that a user already marked it on googlemaps.
Lucky that my scooter driver knows the manang and the owner of the place! In case you want to get lucky too, look for him at the Palapag Plaza. His name is Ricky Jao.
And no one would know who that is! He is known all over town as "Buyungaw"!
Well, that is according to him hehehe!
Tara let's move forward!
But it's nice to see from a distance, and all the more wondrous when you go near it!
I said "nebir butig", at humalakhak ang insik! Yep, Tsinoy ang driver ko, sociel ako!
Let's start from the very beginning...
3 minutes after the fallen rocks, driver swerved left and entered a private property.
Anyway, he said there is always a woman-caretaker, who works on this farm, mostly alone, that's why we couldn't see anyone who'd collect our fees. We entered anyway.
It's a short walk to the beach (around 50 meters). Oh we saw the manang along the path, tending to her plants. Then you see a scene like the 1st photo above. And this:
Example: that promontory in the middle of the photo, is a giant "pawikan". I zoomed.
O sya tortol na kung tortol, pawikan na kung pawikan! I enjoyed the creative discovery!
Actually, because the driver kept daring me, I went a few steps nearer. A few lang!
No, I will not go further! Nebir butig, nebir iday, iyoha it hahaha!
Maybe if I was in a group, kahit 5 lang tayo, go ako! Why is that?
Well, the surface on foreground, 'the approach' (it's already part of that rock), is part smooth and part craggy sharp. I was not sure if my driver was "enough help" if I fell.
Oh, here was something amazing that 'kind of' invited me to go nearer, though I was not properly garbed: that approach, that area where you'll walk towards the big rock.
It is not solid earth nor compact stone. It is full of many holes tiny and big (imagine a sink hole), so that, when waves go thru them, water would spout out like geyzers!
Aliw!
They are quite funtastic to chance-upon, although a bit of 'patience tester' since you don't know when is the next one and/or how strong. Sometimes it takes forever. Da!
Now, imagine it is hightide, and all the beach sand you see above is under seawater, where little waves lap on that shore - while bigger ones batter the back of that rock.
Ayayay! Another photo and video opportunity! Sorry me, it was lowtide hehe!
But having seen it, I imagined many things, that could use the place as backdrop or even the main location of a story. I however realized from my driver's stories, that, it has been done so many times, by many visitors to this place! Hindi na pala ako orig!
Anyway, here was my limousine and chauffeur as we prepared to leave the place.
Maybe. It is a wide beach area. But driver says, where we entered and paid manang the entrance and parking fees, is the best way he knows in approaching those rocks.
That entrance and parking area, by the way, has no signs nor indicators that it might be the way to visit those rocks. Good that a user already marked it on googlemaps.
Lucky that my scooter driver knows the manang and the owner of the place! In case you want to get lucky too, look for him at the Palapag Plaza. His name is Ricky Jao.
And no one would know who that is! He is known all over town as "Buyungaw"!
Well, that is according to him hehehe!
Tara let's move forward!
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