We moved to Moalboal!

After our almost 1 month lasting Davao adventures we flew back to Cebu and immediately moved out Cebu city. I couldn’t deal with the city anymore, wanted a place where we could walk to the sea and preferably had some mountains more inland…so we found!
Have a small looksee at our new place, Moalboal & the near vistas.
We plan to stay here for at least a year! Give us a visit!

Our open air kitchen

front view…we live on top of the garage

front garden view

view from our kitchen balcony…our bay and the mountains

view from our front balcony. In the distance you see island Negros

inside our studio…just one room, but spacy enough and all what we need is there

fresh coconuts at our kitchen balcony

the very near & tiny island Pescador…a (free)diver’s heaven

frogfish

huge school of sardines

jellyfish and it’s lightsignals

eel

thunderstorm behind the mountains, view from our kitchen balcony

our bay, about 100m walking

view from a higher point…very nice motorbike trail towards this viewpoint

how we do it…Shayne & Wolfgang

the building you see is a school…imagine!

view of the other side of southern Cebu island, Alcoy village.

macro from a few insects I found during a hike through one of the last forests in Cebu…pretty close to our place

So…What’s next? Aside of just enjoying life here, I’m planning a motorbike tour around island Negros. That will be quite a tour, around 10 days & hundreds of km’s cruising, trying to find some nice secluded areas and have a stopover in Bacolod during it’s famous Masskara Festival (see last year october).
Do I miss Belgium? Hell no! haha.

Davao Del Sur – Kapatagan – Padada

Wow, finally an update again…
Last 2/3 months (june-aug) there’s been happening quite a lot and I honestly forgot a bit about this blog. Anyway…
After my diving course in Davao we headed to Padada, a small town 2 hours away from Davao, where my good friend Czaldy lives.
On the way we stopped at several places, like Mount Davao (highest peak in Mindanao province), an arthouse of Kublai (famous artist in Mindanao), a pottery, a wildwaterriver where we tried out watertubing, etc…

Watertubing…Take a tube of a trucktire and just ride it down the river…mad fun, but painful for the butt…not for everyone I guess.

some work of Kublai

Batcave in Samal island

waterfalls in Samal island

on the road…

horseriding mount Davao area

cabelslide…fun!

coconut-oil farm

house around coconut farm…they brew the famous tuba there (coconut wine)

gunshooting with the mayor of Padada

pottery

surroundings

arthouse Kublai

my soar eye…believe me, you don’t want this…

Davao underwater: Samal island & Talikud island

The 8th of june we arrived in Davao, in Mindanao. Many governments (especially the US) still list this area in the Philippines as to be avoided and unsafe.

Not really true. To be honest, I felt even safer in Davao then in Cebu…The deadsquat from the local mayor is something to discuss about, but it’s definitely effective. Zero tolerancy. You fuck up, you get erased. Further, this city is clean as I never saw it before in the Philippines. And you can drink tapwater! Wow for that. People are softspoken, honest and hospital.  A city to keep in mind for living a while.

The more dangerous areas are actually located towards Zamboanga and the islands behind, in the Sulu sea. Better be careful there & know who you know, where you go and what you do.

Now, the real reason I went to Davao was diving & visit my friend Czaldy! I wanted to get certified as a Scuba Open Water diver, so I could spent more time underwater compared to freediving. I love freediving, but I love even more to study a creature and photograph it.
Well, I have my certification. I scored a smooth 92% on my exam (with a heavily infected eye).

Let my pictures speak to you…

Next is Padada & Kapatagan in Davao del Sur. Give me some time.