Subic Bay No.1 Group – Philippine-Sailor

Category: Subic Bay No.1 Group

This is the first sub category for Subic Bay, if too many post are created I will add a No.2 sub category, etc.

SBFZ Perimeter Walk 22-11-22

Zg008. Pictures #045 to 065 are from my side trip to Brgy. Tipo. First of all we get a great view of the massive development/investment of the Xantheng Corp. thru their Tipo Hightech ECO Park Company. They have spread out from the SBFZ Tipo Gate at left to the Familiar Hill at right. We also […]

Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar and Grill, also a Resort and Hotel

Zf879. Vasco’s menu cover page. ——————————– Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar and Grill, also a Resort and Hotel Magellan’s Landing Maritime Museum The Vasco’s Restaurant, Bar, Grill, Resort and Hotel and the Magellan Landing Maritime Museum (it is really one place) is a very unique, interesting, relaxing and refreshing place, so is the owner, Brian Homan, an […]

The new Subic Bay Fire Station

The Subic Bay Fire Station This is one of 7 images of the inauguration of the newly rebuilt Subic Bay Freeport Zone Fire Station on the 20th June 2022. ———————————————- The new SBFZ Fire Station (on the former Subic Bay Naval Station) is inaugurated. The former Subic Bay Naval Base Fire Station was rebuilt at […]

USMC Green Beach, Hanjin, Phil Navy Home Port

Zf625. The Agusuhin River Valley was an Olongapo Naval Reservation Training Area, called Green Beach by the USMC. Local people lived here in a community called Sitio Agusuhin, part of Barangay Cawag in the Subic Municipality. The Marines and local people had a good relationship. This is an about 1989 US Marine Corps image. One […]

Nagsasa Cove Hike, 2022-03-15

Zf576. Pic #01: One of 5 images with my GPS track, and walking data from my Garmin GPS device and track account. ————————————————————— In this web presentation I chose these 9 images, picture serial numbers referred to, are based on the 155 images in the long Photobucket album. This is a challenging hike on the […]

SBFZ Fence around the Familiar Peak on SBFZ 2022-01-21

Zf510. (007) this is one of 13 images in the above album about my track of this -along the SBFZ Fence around the Familiar Peak- walk from Google Earth and my Garmin account and they give other relevant information. In new Cabalan I forgot to safe my GPS track, so the last 2 km of […]

Subic Bay Area Random Shots Oct.-Dec. 2021

Zf481. 004 This is one random shot of the Subic Bay area in the Oct.-Dec. 2021 time frame. This is an important item; the Sit n Bull Restaurant in Barangay Barretto moved, it is now along the National Highway, next to the entrance of Dell Pilar Street and in the same complex where the Dryden […]

A-20 Havoc crashed on Mt. Redondo, 9th Jan. 1945.

Zf092. A-20G Havoc displayed at the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force. Photo is from Wikipedia. A-20 Havoc crashed on Mt. Redondo, 9th Jan. 1945. The two men crew, 2nd Lt Bertrand E. Major, 0-760704 and Cpl. August F. Kenzora, 36757921 did not survive. Zf093a. The missing aircraft report by the Commanding Officer of […]

Subic Bay Area, various subjects.

Zo956. The Philippines was the host country in for the 2019 South East Asia Games. The games were conducted in several different venues including Subic Bay. This Subic Gym building is located along the Aguinaldo St., our sailor’s former Liberty Route to the main gate. It was built by the new Management, the Subic Bay […]

Ernest J. Gaines Grave Site 2021-Jan-31

Zd890. This is one of three pictures of Ernest J. Gaines Tomb in the Gains Beach area on Redondo Peninsular in Subic Bay on the 4th of Aug. 2006. Very few people were residing there then but my hiking partners and I wanted to see the tomb. ———————————— Ernest J. Gaines was/is a Legend in […]