The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
By dinner time, I was willing to concede that the tables on the brightly lit beach did have a charm all their own. Still, not being one to enjoy life in crowded places, I kept wishing there was more to Boracay than what I had seen so far. That wish would be granted the following day when we went island hopping.
White Beach is nothing compared to the solitude and pristine beauty of Puca Island and Crystal Cove.
I’m back. Two nights in Boracay, one night at the Sampaguita Gardens Resort in New Washington, Aklan and three nights in Roxas City. We went island-hopping and snorkeling in Boracay, took photos, feasted on the food and did some shopping.
We photographed some Faberge eggs and a painting by Cory Aquino at Sampaguita Gardens, bought dolls, took more photos (it’s a picture-pretty place), enjoyed an Oriental dinner, had coffee by the roaring sea…
Eastern Philippines is listed among the most endangered coastlines in the world. Reason: “over-fishing and the conversion of mangrove forests into aquaculture ponds with low productivity.” The Caribbean and Phuket in Thailand are on the list too. The next list might include Boracay at the rate things are going. Read the story that accompanies the ... (more)
The third batch of the photos taken by my daughter at the Pawikan Conservation Project site. It wasn’t all work and study for the kids at the pawikan conservation site in Morong, Bataan. There was time for some soccer and beach volleyball. [tags]Pawikan+Conservation+Project, Morong+Bataan, beach+volleyball[/tags]
These photos were taken on the beach behind Gerry’s Grill in Subic where we had lunch just before we left for Metro Manila during a weekend stay last month. All are zoomed in photos. Above, the portion of the beach reserved for swimmers. The larger portion was for jetskiing. A lighthouse. I don’t know if ... (more)
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Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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