A Night in Amambucale, Samar

I made the snap decision to head for the Guiuan peninsula on Samar before heading south and eventually out of the Philippines. I had a vague idea of going up the east coast of Samar and then crossing over the interior mountains and doing a loop back to Leyte, but a bum right knee has caused me to rethink that idea. I will probably go …

A Walk Down Copra Street on a Sunday

 
Sundays are very quiet days in the Philippines. Most businesses are closed, and I found all the copra warehouses closed and the streets empty of trucks. That isn’t to say that the streets were without life. There were quite a few people on that street and as I made my way along it, people asked me to take their picture and I stopped and took …

Photo Walkabout in Tacloban

On my boat rides to and from San Antonio, I noticed an interesting stretch of coastline in the northern part of Tacloban. There were two ornate churches there plus a lot of houses built on stilts out over the water. I decided to go there with my camera and see if I could walk around and take some pictures.
Before I went, I stopped at my …

Copra Warehouses in Tacloban and 2nd Visit to San Antonio

There is a wide street near the docks that is lined with copra warehouses on both sides. I’ve often looked with interest at the dirty men loading and unloading the copra from trucks, thinking they would be great subjects for a photograph.
I also wanted to learn more about copra, so yesterday I went inside one of the warehouses to check it out. This first warehouse …

Photos – Tacloban People, Markets and Copra Warehouses

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Second Prison Visit

My second visit to the prison began very much like the first. I showed up at 1:00 o’clock, and there was a lineup of about twenty-five women at the door, some with young children and many with bundles of food. There were far more motorcycles parked around the door and sidewalk this time, and the lineup was even more of a mess. It also seemed …

A Visit to a Local Prison

Visiting hours at the jail start at 1:00 p.m. and I arrived there at about 1:30 to find a very long line-up of women waiting to get in. I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised to see a line-up, but I was. I wasn’t sure if I had to register first or not, so I initially walked past the line and went right up to …

Boat Trip to Barangay San Antonio

When I left my hotel yesterday, I stopped by the jail to inquire about visiting hours and whether there were any foreigners in the jail. There were no visiting hours at all on Monday, but I did learn that there was an American in the jail. I didn’t find out his name, but someone later told me that he was a retired engineer and he …