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Zd895. This is one of the first ladies I asked about the tomb site. She told me that the remains of Ernest J. Gaines have been removed and were brought to Ilo Ilo. She also said, that she has a pictures of his bones in her home across the bay in Matain Village. Where I found her was the wrong spot and I continued the search.

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Zd893. This is the grave/tomb plaque of Ernest J. Gaines on the 23rd of June in 2012; I went by his tomb again and it seems his grave plaque got cleaned up or was replaced.

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Zd892. 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.

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Zd886. The main features of the Grande Island Resort were these chalets, they replaced everything on the island north shore, of what the Army Fort Wint and later the Navy recreational service had there. But the large trees and other tropical landscaping are impressive.

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Zd885. The main features of the Grande Island Resort were these chalets, they replaced everything on the island north shore, of what the Army Fort Wint and later the Navy recreational service had there. But the large trees and other tropical landscaping are impressive.

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Zd884. That structure in back camouflages the wave making structure. The former Navy base ball field was converted to a lagoon but the wave making system was never used or a very short time only.

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Zd883. The resort has a very large pool but it is being cleaned right now.

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Zd882. This is the dining room in the resort main structure, it also houses the reception and a bar area. And the building has a function room and it is has mostly glass walls to the poolside.

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Zd881. This is an old resort map posted a few years ago, and is not available anymore. I marked it up to indicate that some roads are barely accessible anymore and one is completely grown over.

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Zd889. We are about to land where we started out this morning, the former Navy officer boat landing which is now the Grande Island Resort Terminal. I enjoyed the trip. After all, that was my goal, to get an update on this historical Island in the famous Subic Bay.