Visayan Islands – Page 7 – Philippine-Sailor

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This is for everything in the Visayan Islands

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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:

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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 […]

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Zg270. I am using a FastCat Ferry and we are steaming by the island of Ticlin just off Matnog Ferry Port.

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Zg269. First step was to get on a ferry with my car at Matnog. If you want to use the ferry service, you must stop about 9km from Matnog and register at a checkpoint. There they tell where to go next to buy the ticket and pay all the fees. For me and my SUV […]