Subic Bay Freeport Zone – Page 12

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The former US Subic Bay Naval Base became the Subic Bay Freeport Zone in Nov. 1992

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Zg351. (-045 to 047) are pictures of Baloy Long Beach in Barrio Barretto, which belongs to Olongapo City and Subic Bay. The last two pictures are of the NW end of Baloy Beach. A new investor bought the rights to develop here, cleared all the people out, and demolished all the buildings. The 2 story […]

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Zg350. (-040) the middle building is the Mangos Resort in Barrio Barretto, the right structure is a new hotel; “iCove”. The owner of the new hotel and property owner is the nice person, we Vets call: “Ike” who is also the owner of the Arlene money changer and other hotels in Olongapo. He had rented […]

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Zg361. (-079) this is a view of the Baloy Beach Road it is almost completely concreted.

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Zg360. (-076) This is Barrio Barretto’s public beach, called Driftwood Beach, on weekends it is busy now since that virus from Red China is almost gone. Further down by the mouth of the Maquinaya River is a floating island resort.

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Zg359. (-074 and 075) are views of the former Subic Naval Station (NAVSTA), the former Ship Repair Facility (SRF), the Naval Supply Depot (NSD) and the Boton Pier area which are now, all now part of the Subic Bay Freeport Zone (SNFZ). I see a small and medium size floating dry dock, new big fuel […]

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Zg358. (-054) works is continuing to replace the former Subic Bay Naval Base Main Gate Bridge. Left is the Remy Sports Field, much has changed there. These bridge shot are shot from the relative new 5th floor of the 7 floor SM Mall just on the Olongapo side of the bridge.

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Zg357. (-061 to 071) are pictures of the Baloy Long Beach, part of Barrio Barretto and belongs to Olongapo City and Subic Bay. All the views here, I described before, so I leave it at that. On my walks it draws me again and again to the beaches of Subic Bay. I enjoy this beautiful […]

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Zg356. (-055 to 060) are shots of the Barrio Barretto Beach in Olongapo and Subic Bay. We are catching views of the Redondo Peninsular, the former Hanjin Shipyard, which is now a Philippine Naval Base and the rest is managed by US investors. We see Grande Island which used to be the U.S. Army Fort […]

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Zg355. (-053) is a sign of the Subic Runex Group gathered here at the Arizona Hotel, Barretto, Olongapo City for their annual meeting. They said most of them stayed about a week. I never heard of them or could find them in the www. Most of them are US Vets. The Arizona Hotel was our […]

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Zg354. (-051 to 052) are pictures of a bridge over the Matain River and a road to it from Subic Town. It is located about 4 km up-river from the National Highway, about the area of Baloy Beach. There is road construction going on; on this side of the bridge proclaiming to be a By-Pass […]