White Water Rafting in Cagayan de Oro and Zipline at Dahilayan

As a great travelistas and likes adventure, me and my friends decided to go water rafting and zipline. One of the most affordable package with zip all you can at Asia's longest zipline at Dahilayan, Bukidnon and white water rafting at Cagayan de Oro City for only P2000. With a great package - van service from cdo to dahilayan zipzone (vice versa), snacks and meals (morning and afternoon), this is the best package we got this summer escapade.

There are more fun trips and adventures Dahilayan adventures could offer like atv rides, horse back riding, tree adventure, zorb and many others. Too many adventures to join yet too little time left. But surely, we gonna go back there and go atv racing. :))

Here's a cute video snapshot of some flips and tosses in the wild rapids.

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How to go to Misamis Oriental Aquamarine Park (MOAP) and dolphin island?

Are you planning to go to MOAP? or to dolphin Island?

Last March we've been to Misamis Oriental Aquamarine Park to see dolphins and go snorkeling,

We left for Ozamis City from Iligan City at around 4:30 AM and you will arrive at MOAP around 9 AM. We just took a van to send us to MOAP but if you are a backpacker and want to go to MOAP here's what you do:

Take a bus to from Iligan City - Ozamis. From the Mucas Port, the bus will take a barge going to Ozamis City. From Ozamis city, you can take a van going to Sinabacan, a Municipality where MOAP settled. If you are from farther places, you can reach Iligan through a ferry where it has a direct ship from Cebu, Manila, Bohol and other nearby destinations. Or if you are taking a plane, you can go directly to Cagayan de Oro's Lumbia airport. From the airport you can take a cab going to Bulua terminal where they have several bus trips to Iligan City from 3AM to 8PM.

Its our unforgettable trip to the beach since we have a special guest from US - David. Hope he enjoyed his stay here in the Philippines.

Here's our pictures going to Moap.

The dolphin Island

Mga Laagan

Snorkel

Kami ni Ivy :)

I want a toy camera :)

Takashi FX521 Digital Camera, also known as the "digital Holga" is my new craving...

After wanting to have an SLR camera, I found Holga - the best camera for lomography which is a point and shoot camera BUT a very big but, this is much cheaper, yet produces images as same as with SLR photography.

Lomography contains lenses that are clear that makes it much nicer compared to digital cameras. Most Lomo cameras uses film but this Takashi FX521 is produced in digital format that makes it more accessible and handy so you can preview your every capture. Most of the lomo camera are toy cameras, some are waterproof, which has cases and lenses that are plastics, others were of key chain sizes and there are lenses made of jelly. You can notice this toy cameras are multicolored. This would alter the weight, color and dullness of a digital camera not to mention its prices. Lomo cameras contains lenses that enables users to set it to 4 settings: normal, monochromatic, noise, and vivid. But other lomo cameras provides much more settings. Moving on, lomo cameras also enables users to focus the subject which the normal digital camera limits. Furthermore, there are still many lomo cameras in the market the contains advanced settings to provide quality professional images.

Can you just image how powerful this toy cameras are...? and i am looking forward to have one ;)

Package includes: Takashi FX521 Digital Camera, USB Cable, AV Cable, Pouch, Strap, CD and User Manual Specification: Image Sensor: 5.0 Megapixels CMOS LCD Display: 2.4” TFT LCD Display Focus Range: Mountain - 150cm ~ infinity, Macro - 20 ~ 40cm Zoom: 4x Digital Zoom Focal Length: f =7.0mm (42.53mm equivalent to 35mm camera) Aperture: F/3.0 Color Mode: Normal, B/W, Sepia, Negative, Red, Green, Blue Resolution (Image): 4000x3000, 2592x1944, 2048x1536, 1024x768, 640x480 Resolution (Movie): 640x480 (VGA) Dimension: 110(W) x 66(H) x 48(D) mm

My new venture

I just started my affiliate program venture and Im trying to work this out. I hope so (cross fingers). If anyone interested hope you might want to visit my new blog site here http://hottestgadgetsforyou.blogspot.com/ but it is still under construction. Hoping to add more post this week so I can start my promotion to attract more $$$$$ lol

Super Moon

We witnessed "super moon" as we celebrate a friend's birthday in one of the Beaches at Opol Misamis Oriental last March 19, 2011. We were so excited to witness the said phenomena and stayed up late to watch the moon rise :p At the same time, it was a high tide that the waves hit til the concrete bridge up to the main road. We even thought it was raining as some of the water was spilled over the rela we we riding. At around 10 PM, the sky wasn't clear and I could sense there's a bad weather coming as the the waves from the beach was hiting at the break water and the shore badly. Luckily, after we finished dinner at around 12midnight, we came out from our cottage and see the moon at its brightest. Though I couldn't see the real super moon like those at the movies, I still am happy to witnessed one along with my friends.

 

 

Super Moon at its Brightest

The Red ring around the super moon

Environmental Issues and there Effects

As the saying goes "The energy you have put in the universe will come back to you", signifies that what you do as an individual and what you have given to the earth will come back to you.

The phenomenon that has now happening to the world shows the effects of how people use, manipulate and devastate the nature.

The recent tsunami and earthquake of Japan is the result of calamities that people couldn't do much about it. Pictures, videos and other footage has been claimed that Japanese people were too harsh to the ocean that it kills more than 20,000 dolphin a year. Others may say that the tsunami just happen were the nature's drawback to the Japan. Moving on, the Philippines has suffered flash floods, landslide and other calamities that kills thousands of individuals and hundreds of families came homeless. Also, Haiti has experienced earthquake that left Haitians the casualty of an earthquake that touch the hearts of people around the world. And now, Philippines is experiencing the rainfalls throughout summer. ITS GOING TO BE A RAINY SUMMER; NO DRY SEASON (source: Philippine Daily Inquirer). All this phenomenon are subject to climate change thus affecting the countries throughout the world.

Haiti 2011 earthquake

Haiti 2011 earthquake

I as a nature lover, climber and a concerned individual asking every concerned readers to take action to prevent this from happening over and over again. If, given the opportunity, I would also like to ask the government concern to lead the country. Just by planting trees, control all logging activities, saving endangered species, we might be able to help stop by increasing global warming effect. Given the country population of 9M and all these people will at least try to plant a single tree a year, we could then accumulate millions and millions of trees each year. In this case, we could save our earth from deteriorating and would help ourselves in saving lives.

I have been participating in tree planting activities as I start my interest in mountain climbing. I could say that many of Us Climbers already planted a lot of trees in the most bald peaks and mountains and yet we couldn't cover what been done and still been doing with some of our fellow individual. Just by simply making this blog, I could at least touch the heart of every readers and help save the earth.

2011 Tsunami Hits Japan and The Hidden Issues

The recent Tsunami devastated the not only Japan's local industries but telecommunications and nuclear power plant as well. A massive 8.9/9.0 magnitude earthquake hit the Pacific Ocean nearby Northeastern Japan at around 2:46pm on March 11 (JST) causing damage with blackouts, fire and tsunami (source: http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/japanquake2011.html). The large earthquake triggered a tsunami alert in some countries facing Pacific Ocean that includes  Australia, Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia and New Zealand. Even in the regions in Pacific including South America, US west coast, Canada and Alaska received high alert warnings for the wake of tsunami. Being situated in the earthquake belt, Japan, as the most prepared earthquake nation, faced the terror of the natural calamity that even the technological preparedness has been thrown.

The technological advancement of Japan have saved them during the recent earthquake alert and its aftershocks that lasted for several minutes. Their earthquake shock proof building danced its way to the beat of the quake and stand itself from falling. Their power plant has been shut down as they received a tsunami alert that would hit the coast of Japan making making some of the establishments unavailable. The social media and communications played a major role in informing the people across the globe. Twitter and Facebook updates have created its way in updating the status and keeping their situation updated. Needless to say, communication and networking were the key to allowing the information spread.

Why has Japan face this calamity of the years?

Dolphins, as one of the most intelligent and friendly creature, has been mass slaughtered by Japan through these years making humans its most dangerous predator. Some organizations have reached help to stop this cruelty and even ask for their hearts to stop exploiting the oceans and the creatures that live in them. Japan  This short documentary video is the proof of how these people show no mercy in killing dolphins. 

I found this video at youtube that says "The japanese kill about 20 000 dolphins every year, and their method is pretty cruel, as this clip from the documentary "The Cove" shows. It also claims that dolphin meat has dangerous levels of mercury, and the Japanese government itself advices that pregnant women should not eat it." (source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g8_3MS9x50&feature=related). These just proves that the Japanese Government does not care for the ocean life, thus giving them these kinds of calamities through the years.

"all the energy you put into the universe comes back to you"