Flag and soldier from the island of Corregidor (a.k.a. The Rock).

It is advised that one wakes up early if one wants to make the most out of travelling. This also gives good opportunities to take pictures.

This was taken on Dacu island, Siargao during sunset. I had already taken over 20 shots of the setting sun and wanted to take a pictue of something different...I turned around and there I was.

Hermit crab from Siargao.

It took a while for him to come out of his shell for me to take a picture of him -- but it was worth the wait.

Cloud 9 is where the best waves are in Siargao.
Although September is the real surf season month, we managed to catch a few of the locals catch some waves.
I wanted to try it out myself, but after seeing all the jagged rocks, I decided against it.

The kids here have a different sport.
We were told that a lot of foreigners just leave their surf boards with the locals when they leave.

The island is called Hubad. Its part of a group of islands off the coast of Siargao. Its called Hubad because there's not much growing on this sandbar like island. The other 2 islands are called Guyam (small) and Dacu (big).

It took me 1 minute and 20 seconds to run around Hubad island. This gives an idea of the size of the island.

There's only 1 airline that flies to Surigao.

The plane was OK, but they were consistently late - 1 hour delayed to and from Surigao.

Bright side: at least there's a direct flight to Surigao. I found out that people used to fly to Butuan and travel 2 hours by land before Asian Spirit started flying there.

At first I thought Siargao was in northern Luzon.
Then I learned that it was in Mindanao.
Then I thought that it was just another name for Surigao.
Finally I found out that Siargao is a separate island from Surigao, but is still part of Surigao.

How do you spell it again? Bougainvillea? I like it when they come in 2-3 colors from one shrub.