Alava Wharf in SBFZ, Subic Bay, notice that MSC oiler and white MSC Research Ship. Notice all the sand along the sea wall; soon we will have a beach here, right? That landing in front is special to me. This was the enlisted boat landing; I stepped ashore here, for the first time in the Philippines in 1962. And I remember my first night ashore because I had Shore Patrol duty. At that time the Alava Wharf did not exist and our many ships always had to anchor.