Told you I took lots of photos.  These are the unglamorous backside of White Beach.

  You leave the beach and then take the scenic path back to the main road to catch a trike.

  The back side of the beach.  Hopefully they are looking for finds and not food.

  There were jeepneys but we walked to the main street to catch a trike.  The man on the left remind me of Marino, our wonderful computer guru at the Roanoke County Public library except Marino’s hair is way shorter.

  I call this blue sea and red truck.  You can see the maps on the wall one building over.

  Randal and this smiling boy were discussing who should give some money to whom. 

Everyone went on empty handed.  Kids are always asking for money, often it seems like a game.  I don’t give them any.  I do pay the kids who offer to carry bags at the public market though I carry my own anyway. 

  Here we are back in Puerto Galera.  Randal stayed in the trike to be driven to the barber for a shave.  You can see how squished in he is. 

  You can see how Randal fills the seat himself.  Picture both of us in it!  Picture us in it going over bumpy roads like the one to Sabang. 

  We picked a little place along the beach to eat lunch.  We sat to the left of the photo on the beach side.  This side opened to the little alley that paralleled the beach.

  Randal had chicken curry and French fries and I had an eggplant omelet and steamed veggies.  It was all quite good. 

  The top of the eggplant is visible on my omelet.  Yummy, mostly eggplant.  The banca model on the table is the one Randal bought from the beach vendor.

  Sitting on the beach side or open sides of any restaurant makes you prospective customers.  We don’t normally, but his boat were neat.

  They are made so that you can take down the sails.  Wonder how they get them inside those bottles?

  He was a good salesman with a unique (to us) product. 

After lunch we walked along the beach.  Remember Bob Marley?    Lots of little shops along the beach.

Part of the Philippines is Oriental and part is Muslim

  Massage anyone?  Lots of people offering to give massages, White Beach, Sabang, and even the streets of Olongapo. 

  Or you can get a temporary or permanent tattoo.

  A view of the landscape. 

Guess I’ll need a part 3

Randal and I went to visit White Beach.  We took a trike for 100 pesos about 15 minutes down the road from Puerto Galera.  It was a lovely ride that looked at times like the parkway to Yorktown, VA.  This map was painted on a wall near the walk to the beach from the road. 

  This was our ride home, but the ride to White Beach was in the same kind of contraption.

  Randal and I both squeeezzzzzeeeed inside. 

  This is typical of the waterfront.  Lots of bancas offering trips to places or just back to Puerto Galera.  I like the white umbrellas with the white boat and white clouds.  Might have to try to paint it.

Kids were surfing along the water’s edge. 

Watching their feet fly out from under them was funny since no one was hurt and they laughed too.

  These were attached by rope to fast boats or jet skis and you would go racing through the water until a sharp turn dumped everyone off.  It looked like fun.  We didn’t do it.

  This was the Hotel at the end of the beach.  It was less “fancy” but more interesting than the others.  The “jungle” covers lots of the landscape just behind the beach.

  The end of this part of the beach and this email.  I’ll send part 2 next.

ps……….

  The other half of the  map shows the other direction from PG to Sabang.  Maybe I’ll take some of those side roads near Sabang if we return to Puerto Galera.  You can see Big and Small La Laguna.