Where Have You Been Lately?

Day One
I don’t know if it’s us who were untimely or if it was the weather. It was partly raining but the sun was up the sky while the air was humid. Nevertheless, that did not stop us from enjoying the serenity of the place. There were some visitors but not as much during summertime. Some of us tried rock climbing. Unlucky me that the climbing shoes don’t fit my feet. Wasn’t that redundant? Haha. Anyway, I’ve always enjoyed wall climbing so I felt bad not being able to try climbing a real wall of rocks.

Trivia: Did you know that one person can nearly drown twice in two consecutive days? The picture below shows one of the two rescue moments, involving one person, that happened when we were there.

Day Two
Had breakfast at around 8am then proceeded to packing up our things so we could enjoy the remaining hours as we would be fetch by 1pm. We started our swimming activities by taking a dip in the clear waters of the river opposite the sea. We couldn’t really use the sea since waves are gigantic. Thanks to Agot’s underwater cammie and we had some underwater shots.

As we were about to get ready for our trip back to the shores of Pundaquit, rain started to fall as if the world’s gonna end that very moment. The wind blew so hard that our wet bodies (or was it only mine) begun to shiver and almost gave up to cold. The already-big waves became even bigger and angrier. A low pressure was just spotted in Olongapo, which is just a few hours away our location according to one of the residents in the cove.

End of story? Our group was 18 in total and the four boats we rented can only accommodate 16. We (I and Bien) had to get back to Pundaquit on a boat with people we don’t know. That made the four boats just about right for the remaining 16 in our group. It took me tears to embrace my mixed feelings that time. Fear of the boat being capsized and with people who don’t even care about you, shivery due to rain and strong winds, pain of making ourselves fit the seat which was designed for one person only, anxiety because all of our stuff are goddamn wet.

Despite everything, the vacation was worthwhile. I’d go back to Anawangin next year, hopefully by climbing Mt. Pundaquit, but definitely not during rainy season.

Tags: accidents, Anawangin, camp, cove, drown, low pressure, Pundaquit, river, San Antonio, traverse, waves, white sand, Zambales

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