Last Saturday I walked over to the Olongapo Cemetery to take race photos.  I didn’t get any race photos, but I did get some river photos that I like.

  The Kalaklan Gateway, one of several gateways into and out of Subic.  It is an odd experience; but one more of an issue for Filipinos than westerners.  I just walked through either way, any gate.   This is looking out from Subic towards Olongapo.

  The Olongapo side of the river

A boy and his small banca. 

A very reclusive scavenger.  Not far from here, around the point on the bay side is a public beach. There is a tower with a navigation light overlooking the bay entrance and it was there that I tried to go for photos.  But it was closed to the public and had a guard. 

This might be one of my favorite photos of the area. 

How many guys does it take to move one thin line?  These 5 plus 2 others.  You can see how they keep the sun off; they do look like terrorists!  But obviously they aren’t.  They were parading along single file holding the wire over their heads.  When they saw that I had taken out my camera, they preferred to pose.  At this point I had already crossed back into Subic and was on my way down Dewey Avenue back towards the yacht club. 

  Two of our favorites; Magnolia ice cream and San Miguel beer.  This was the distributor where we go to stock up on beer. 

Hi Everyone,

  These are just some recent, semi-related photos.  By the way, the photo with the sailboat Purpose Driven was an oxymoron because the image of the crew just sitting there waiting to do something was just the opposite of the boat’s name.  Oh well.

  I was testing the 6X zoom on the Canon.  The local police department was out for a morning jog in the heat.  The front of the group was smiling…..

  Back of the line needed help from their buddies.

Usually the police, (pulis here in the Philippines,) are on bicycles.  There were lots of people here over the long Easter holiday, but nothing needed crowd control which is what horses are usually for. 

  I guess their speed was being monitored.  Good guys with black hats!  Nice horses.

   Across Rizal Highway from the SBYC pony rides are now available. 

I’m taking a pass after my Chinese experience. 

These 2 kids don’t look like riding with be their thing.  The little girl in her pink Easter bonnet is adorable.

Anxious moms. 

My mother had a huge red bag and by the end of any outing everything no one wanted would be in that red bag; sweaters, you name it.  One home movie shows my mom with the loaded red bag and holding our  dog on a leash.  We were visiting Fort Ticonderoga in New York State.  My sister and I are skipping along unencumbered and my father is taking the home movie.  This image of the lady on the left loaded with bags reminded me of that.  Plus, when we were about the size of these kids,  it was my mother who took us for riding lessons. 

Yesterday morning one of the racing boats had its huge spinnaker flapping in the very little breeze. Maybe drying it out from yesterday’s race. 

The sail is designed to look like the Philippine flag.  The Philippine boat, Full Metal Jacket did win the Hong Kong to Subic race, but I honestly don’t know if that is it or not and I am honestly too lazy to walk over to the other dock to look.