White Beach Puerto Galera

Monday morning Lorna began her surgery, so Laura and I took the opportunity to get out of Dave and Lorna's hair for a bit while she recovered and explore. Monday morning we hopped on a taxi to the bus station. From there we took a bus about 2 hrs south to Batangas to catch a boat. The bus ride wasn't bad at all, kind of like a Greyhound and it …

... It was a good time and the boys all had a lot of fun. Later that night we all roasted bread on a stick over the fire. This was an old Danish way of cooking bread that another camp counselor had introduced to the group. White Beach was a really good ...

... us. We went straight to the ticketing area instead and checked the different times and prices of a variety of pump boats going to Puerto Galera in Mindoro. After deciding which one to take, we bought tickets and paid for the port terminal fee. We just ...

... down maybe three metres and practiced breathing and maintaining buoyancy. I went to a couple drag shows as they were all over the beach every night. I went on four more dives going up to 18m. It was very cool, there hopefully will be videos to follow of ...

After a Marathon journey from Boracay I eventually arrived at Sabang Beach near Puerto Galera  which was a row of Hotels and dive shops along the beach and a row of bars behind.  After a bit of bargaining I managed to get a ...

... over here. Chad is getting hit on left and right hes loving it just jokin haha. Weve been eating like kings and our hotel on White beach was real nice with our own washroom cable!!!! (not that we even watched tv) and AC nice view as well for just ...

... a cool arty restraunt it rocked (apprently designed by a veryfamous filipino film set designer....) anyhow i then went on to the white beach of mindoro island ( afurther 4 hrs from manila!) it was ok but really it was so comerciallised it could have ...

Whilst staying in Batangas we decided to take a trip to a nearby island called Mindoro, and a town called Puerto Galera. With us were Len and their cousins Don, Daryl and Darlene. Dorine, Dennis,Dj , Diane and Darwin couldn't make it unfortunately.  ...

Water, beach, sun ;-) Well white beach and Small Laguna had been my second destination after Manila in the Philippines. So in the daytime I went I went diving and snorkling and on the evening I mostly had a beer on the beach and met mostly people who ...

2011-01-21: Arrived with the ferry at Sabang beach in Puerto Galera at 13:30pm. There's not much of a beach in Sabang, especially when the tide is in, and lots of sharp rocks in the water, so its not great for swimming either. A woman, Bing, met us at ...

... ! We got off boat and had to then get a jeepney, to which the boat folk would be free as we had already paid to get to White Beach, which we thought, believe that when we see it, so headed off to White Beach, and when we arrived we didn't have to pay ...