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Zg280. The next village is Barangay Villa which had its annual Fiesta today and it was very busy and it was hard to drive on the road with all fiesta activities going on. I believe that is the village Lt Chapman operated out of. And just a little distance in the bay is the island […]

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Zg279. At Barangay Balicuatro I looked up the hill and this afternoon I will go up there.

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Zg278. What a surprise, the first Barangay around the Balicuatro Point, on the east side of the peninsular has the name Balicuatro. Notice the road, it is older here and narrower. It is like that all along the east coast of the peninsular.

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Zg277. Close to the end of the Balicuatro Point Peninsular the National High Voltage powerline seems to go underground or comes from underground and perhaps runs under the San Bernardine Strait.

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Zg276. Somewhere on the west coast of the Balicuatro Point Peninsular, this peninsular seems to have many of these large big rocks, port of its geology!

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Zg275. The peninsular is about 9km long from Port Allen and I drove up the west side of the peninsular all the way to about the area of Balicuatro Point. The road now is very good, seems to be relatively new and is wide enough. As you can see, I just left Barangay Victoria, a […]

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Zg274. The Balicuatro Point Peninsular where the Coast-Watcher Station for Gen MacArthur was set up. Where do I start? I only had one geographic name, Balicuatro Point but I had the description of Lt. Chapman from the interview, which follows here:

Zg273

Zg273. I drove to my hotel, the Victoria’s Sea Side Villa, about 2 km north of Port Allen. I arranged it thru Facebook. No TV but good internet, 2500 peso a night and the included breakfast was good.

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Zg272. The DapDap Ferry Terminal in Port Allen on Samar.

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Zg271. We landed at the DapDap Ferry Terminal. On the FastCat ferry it is only one way on and one way off so the trucks and busses back on to the ferry and are drive off at the destination. This was a tight landing spot and the ferry skipper had to twist it around to […]