Central Luzon – Philippine-Sailor

Media Category: Central Luzon

This Central Luzon category will encompass all the provinces of this Central Luzon Region

Zg729

Zg729. (-07) this is the Bacolor Cockfighting Arena, partially buried by the Mt. Pinatubo lahar and it still stands today, just east of the east Megadike and just north of the Olongapo-Gapan Road.

Zg733. (-21) A view of Bacolor Town proper south of the Olongapo-Gapan Road that is the way it looked then. It has come back to life now! We see the famous church that is buried up to the upper windows, which serve now as doors. In the future I will make a separate album of […]

Zg732

Zg732. (-20) In this picture you can clearly see why the traffic to Bataan and Zambales stopped and you can see exactly where this was because the Bacolor Cockfighting Arena is visible and it stands there today, although partially buried. The DPHW is building a temporary bridge over the Pasig Potrero River which is now […]

Zg731

Zg731. (-16) A view of the Bacolor area north of the Olongapo-Gapan Road that is the way it looked then. It has come back to life now! I don’t have a picture but I saw a Mercedes Car lifted up high and pushed against the roof and the lahar under it kept it there.

Zg730

Zg730. (-12) this is the beginning of the new Olongapo-Gapan Road in Bacolor in 1995; it is at the same place only a few meters higher now. The new official name of this road is Jose Abad Santos Ave, a true Filipino Hero! Notice the Bacolor Church at right in a distance.

Zg423

Zg423. (-Images #00 to #02) are a Google map as to where the bridge is; the name of the bridge as engraved at the bridge and your 81 year young guide. For the purpose of these image descriptions, let’s accept that the bridge runs on a north-south axis! I happen to love wearing that Army […]

Zg427

Zg427. (-Images #45 to #48) are a round of shots, left to right, from the west lanes of SCTEC, on the Pasig Potrero Bridge, and mostly in the upriver direction.

Zg426

Zg426. (-Images #34 to #44) are views down the Pasig-Potrero River from the in-between space, between the west and east lanes of the Pasig Potrero River Bridge. There are two vista shots to the west. 8 shots are of the bridge pilings, important; they are the pilings under the west lanes because I was shooting […]

Zg425

Zg425. (-Images #30 to #32) are 3 close-up images, looking down to the Pasig Potrero River from the east lanes of the bridge. It seems the iron sheeting; perhaps put in place to stable the river bed level was not good enough. I speculate they have to something similar in the near future, but better […]

Zg424

Zg424. (-Images #16 to #23) are pictures of my approach to the bridge; I had entered SCTEX about ½ Km or less north of it. I was walking on the east lanes and the west lanes a truck came by and moved thru some road blockage and he was going on the proper side, heading […]