I spent two tours of duty at Clark Air Base in Angeles City and had plenty of time to explore this beautiful archipelago. This is my attempt to share some of the sights of The Philippines with you.
I learned to scuba dive in the Philippines and was certified at Batangas, southwest of Manila. The Cathedral Reef and Sombrero Island off Batangas offered two very exciting dive areas
I also had the pleasure of exploring and diving near Mindoro
Island and Tubataha Reef, in the middle of the Sulu Sea.
When I get the chance I will post more dive pictures here.
I also climbed two extinct volcanoes, Mt. Arayat, long dormant,
(pictured below), and Taal, with a lake inside the crater and an
island in the middle of the lake. Taal erupted only a month after I
was there!
I never climbed Mt. Pinatubo, which was just behind Clark Air
Base, although I have some beautiful sunset pictures silouhetting the
peak. Here's what it looked like when it erupted!
Corregedor Island, lying at the mouth of Manila Bay is the site of many historical events from the Spanish American War to World War Two. Here are some scenes.
The boatmen pull the boats over many of the rapids on the way up to the falls
This section will show some different pictures of Philippine paper
money. More to come soon.
During World War II, when the Japanese occupied the Philippine
Islands, the resistance forces used their own form of money. Here are
some samples of this "guerilla money":
Eventually I'll catalogue more of these and get the images loaded
for you.
©2005 Joe Azzato
Last update: 25 Jun 2005
