As is my custom, I finished yesterday evening beachside at Mango’s. Took a couple of photos attempting to capture the beauty of one particular moment in time but can’t decide which one is best. What do you think?
This……or this?
Well, I reckon beauty is in the eye of the beer holder, right? Although I’m faithfully sticking with my new diet of gin and soda water.
Tough but satisfying hike with the Friday walkers. We had my driver drop us off in the Gordon Heights section of Olongapo City and headed out (and up) from there.
The route we took from Olongapo upward over the mountain then down again and onward to Baloy beach for after hike refreshment at Johan’s Dive Resort. My fellow hikers Jim, Troy, and Scott.Heading out to tackle that mountain in front of us.Hey, wait for me!And so the climb begins…A babbling brook…And a green wall.A bridge of fools?Welp, this mountain ain’t gonna climb itself!Where in the hell did our trail go? Consumed by thatch grass it was! Poor Jim and Troy had to literally beat down a new path.The tall grass made the climb all the more arduous and dangerous……As Scott can attest after taking this fall. No injuries though. Other than to his pride.Looking back towards Olongapo. Slow and steady as she goes, right Scott?I don’t recall the name of this fruit at the moment, but Filipinas love it. Had any been along with us the tree would have likely been plucked bare.Troy enjoying a reflective moment on trail. If I could read his mind I suspect he is thinking “why are those old bastards so damn slow?”I almost always find a tree that speaks to me. I can’t understand a word of it though because I don’t speak tree.And then it is down, down, down.You don’t get to be as old as we are by taking unnecessary chancesWe passed by Mary Jane’s place, so I headed up to for a quick hello…Got to meet her sister too. Wowza!
A good day on trail all and all.
And this post proves it, don’t you think?
That’s it for this time, folks.
So may the sunrise bring hope where it once was forgotten Sons are like birds, flying upward over the mountain
7 thoughts on “Upwards over the mountain”
A Google search of your fruit image turns up a promising result: it’s called the amla in Hindi, or the Indian gooseberry (which also comes in lime-green varieties), and possibly the bangkiling karamay in Tagalog. The fruit can be golden, green, red, or even grape-purple. See here. The Latin designation is Phyllanthus acidus.
Your link looks similar, but according to the Filipina I consulted it is known as lanzones here:
Lanzones is a sweet edible fruit that contains numerous nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, which are beneficial to the body’s health. Lanzones is also known as Langsat and has a scientific name of “Lansium Parasiticum,” which came from the family of mahogany plant
Well, there we go, then! Lanzones!
Pretty girl. I am not digital smart. How do you put a link, picture into your text?
I’m not sure how to put a photo in the comment section. I just copy and paste the link here, although it seems Kevin knows how to do the actual link thingy. Perhaps he’ll enlighten us…
Kind of like a vision check at the optometrist. Optometrist says, “which picture looks better, this one(first one) or this one(second one)?” to which i respond, “definitely the second picture looks way better doc”. regarding all these walks through the bush(no pun intended) do they have ticks in the P.I.?
Soju, yes I have pulled a very occasional tic off the dogs but never had one on me. It was actually one of my surprises moving here that the creepy crawlers and pesty critters are not more in abundance. The mosquitos are not nearly as bad as I experienced in Korea for example. The worst bites I get on trail are always from those damn ants. They are everywhere!
A Google search of your fruit image turns up a promising result: it’s called the amla in Hindi, or the Indian gooseberry (which also comes in lime-green varieties), and possibly the bangkiling karamay in Tagalog. The fruit can be golden, green, red, or even grape-purple. See here. The Latin designation is Phyllanthus acidus.
Your link looks similar, but according to the Filipina I consulted it is known as lanzones here:
Lanzones is a sweet edible fruit that contains numerous nutrients, vitamins, and minerals, which are beneficial to the body’s health. Lanzones is also known as Langsat and has a scientific name of “Lansium Parasiticum,” which came from the family of mahogany plant
Well, there we go, then! Lanzones!
Pretty girl. I am not digital smart. How do you put a link, picture into your text?
I’m not sure how to put a photo in the comment section. I just copy and paste the link here, although it seems Kevin knows how to do the actual link thingy. Perhaps he’ll enlighten us…
Kind of like a vision check at the optometrist. Optometrist says, “which picture looks better, this one(first one) or this one(second one)?” to which i respond, “definitely the second picture looks way better doc”. regarding all these walks through the bush(no pun intended) do they have ticks in the P.I.?
Soju, yes I have pulled a very occasional tic off the dogs but never had one on me. It was actually one of my surprises moving here that the creepy crawlers and pesty critters are not more in abundance. The mosquitos are not nearly as bad as I experienced in Korea for example. The worst bites I get on trail are always from those damn ants. They are everywhere!