Calicoan Surf Camp, Guiuan Revisited
Does this scene/place look familiar to you? It may look like part of our previous story , but it is not! This one is maybe 4kms south of the WWII US Naval Depo and the beach where I was, but they should look similar, since both are parts of the 'generally untouched' long Pacific shoreline of Calicoan Island ! I say 'generally untouched' because, although there are now 2 or 3 post-Yolanda resorts built along the strip, none of them made anything down by the water's edge - for they know, they'd be stupid to do so! In fact, that's what I'm about to tell you, the Surf Camp that I visited back in 2010. That luxurous resort (I estimate) occupied about 200 to 300 meters of shoreline starting from that photo going to the right. That sand down there continues all the way to the right too, and even beyond, but the then resort was nested atop rocks to avoid the battering waves during hightide. Yet all those were 'erased' by Yolanda. You see that bl