The Bauang Church Bell was returned 23 May 2016

Zc162. For decades this bell hung outside Most Holy Trinity Catholic Chapel at West Point, its history lost and forgotten. A ceremony at the chapel Friday, April 29, 2016, marked the return of the bell to its original home at Saints Peter and Paul Church in Bauang, La Union, Philippines, from where it was taken […]

Battery Ramsay

Battery Ramsay at Fort Mills on Corregidor Island. Zc119. This is the Battery Ramsay area, this is the direction you enter it. If you look very hard to the right you can see part of #1 Gun blown up onto the parapet. This is an April 2010 photo but now it is grown over completely. […]

Visit to the USS Stingray Memorial 2018-01-28

Zc086. Here is the location of the USS Stingray Memorial at the Caunayan Bay in Pagudpud Town, Ilocos Norte, here is a big picture. It also shows our GPS track getting there. A friend and I toured North Luzon and we put this Memorial on our schedule. It was a special thing to me, since […]

North Ilocano Province

Trip to the La Mesa Dam, Reservoir and La Mesa Park.

Ca064. This is the La Mesa ECOPARK entrance and visitor reception area, 2018-02-27. This was a trip with a friend to explore the eastern side of Bulacan Province. We wanted to look at all three water dams of the Angat River System because they are so vital to life of the people in Metro Manila. […]

Trip to the Angat Dam in Bulacan 2018-02-27

Trip to the Angat Dam in Bulacan 2018-02-27 Ca048. The Angat Dam and Hydro Power Plant 2018-02-27. This was a trip with a friend to explore the eastern side of Bulacan Province. We wanted to look at all three water dams of the Angat River System because they are so vital to life of the […]

Biak-na-Bato NationalPark

Biak-na-Bato National Park I live in the Philippines and its history interests me. On the 26th Feb. 2018 friends and I visited the province of Bulacan. Our first stop was the Biak-na-Bato National Park. Obliviously it is a large site and we only checked on the location, because we had other goals. But we made […]

2018 April Visit to Corregidor

2018 April visit to Corregidor My visit was 2 days long, 6th to 8th April 2018; I left early on the 8th. The purpose was to meet friends from the Valor Tour organization and a former Peace Corps Volunteer. I generated 13 subject albums such one of the Philippine Veterans Week. This 14th Album is […]

Infantry Point-Tunnel and Magazine

This tunnel is near the Infantry Point, is concrete lined, is not on any map and I say, it is a substantial size tunnel. It was most likely also a Magazine. We do not know the history of it. The storage chamber at the middle entrance has a no-smoking sign in Filipino, so it was […]

Officer Beach 2018-04-06

Officer Beach, a revisit, my friend Mike Ross pointed out a trail that went to the Officer Beach on Corregidor Island, the former Fort Mills. This trail runs along a ridgeline that divides the Officer Beach, then it descends to the Officer Beach Road from there are steps all the way down to the beach. […]