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robbyI'm back from a little tropical island in the Western Philippines. I saw some amazing things and I plan to post some pictures. It's a wild place where you can swim out to a lobster trap in the morning and bring back rock lobsters for breakfast. Coconut trees and mangrove swamps, wild honey, monitor lizards and still a few wild crocodiles. Lots of cobras at night, on the roads and in the tall grass.
An indigenous tribe lives in the hills essentially like people did 25,000 years ago. You see some manufactured cloth and plastic containers among them, but they are still hunters and gatherers. They are light skinned people and the locals claim they are partly descended from Dutch sailors that shipwrecked about 400 years ago. I want to post a picture of a pretty, young girl from this tribe. It may sound strange, but her feet were remarkable, because she had never worn shoes.
Most of the people now, are not indigenous to that island, but have come from other parts of the Philippines and speak Tagalog and some English. They live in little communities called barrangues (sort of like the Spanish word barrio, for neighborhood).
You still see wheel-less carts being dragged by water buffalo. One of the guys who showed me around had three kids, but no job. His wife made the equivalent of $100 US dollars a month. They actually lived comfortably. He would walk out early in the morning, into the surf, with a 100-yard fishing net and catch enough fish for his family and to trade for other necessities.
Basic Tagalog was not too hard to learn, because it has a lot of Spanish and English. I need to practice it now that I'm back to retain what little I've learned. My pronunciation was terrible, but I met a Canadian that learned to speak it very well in about two years. He sells two-stroke motor oil make from coconuts, and his Filipina wife owns and runs a bakery. The only American I met was in the Peace Corps.
An indigenous tribe lives in the hills essentially like people did 25,000 years ago. You see some manufactured cloth and plastic containers among them, but they are still hunters and gatherers. They are light skinned people and the locals claim they are partly descended from Dutch sailors that shipwrecked about 400 years ago. I want to post a picture of a pretty, young girl from this tribe. It may sound strange, but her feet were remarkable, because she had never worn shoes.
Most of the people now, are not indigenous to that island, but have come from other parts of the Philippines and speak Tagalog and some English. They live in little communities called barrangues (sort of like the Spanish word barrio, for neighborhood).
You still see wheel-less carts being dragged by water buffalo. One of the guys who showed me around had three kids, but no job. His wife made the equivalent of $100 US dollars a month. They actually lived comfortably. He would walk out early in the morning, into the surf, with a 100-yard fishing net and catch enough fish for his family and to trade for other necessities.
Basic Tagalog was not too hard to learn, because it has a lot of Spanish and English. I need to practice it now that I'm back to retain what little I've learned. My pronunciation was terrible, but I met a Canadian that learned to speak it very well in about two years. He sells two-stroke motor oil make from coconuts, and his Filipina wife owns and runs a bakery. The only American I met was in the Peace Corps.
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Hmmm, lucky boy...
Date: 2003-02-05 12:46 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm, lucky boy...
Date: 2003-02-05 05:59 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm, lucky boy...
Date: 2003-02-05 07:12 am (UTC)Re: Hmmm, lucky boy...
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Date: 2003-02-07 10:49 am (UTC)Hunted like a crocodile, raaged in the corn!
Your crunchy slugs with heavy boots,
Attached to heavy feet!
Help!
Re: Help!
Date: 2003-02-11 08:07 pm (UTC)NO SCREEN CRACKO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!