Saturday, August 08, 2009

Trekking to Taal volcano

Pineapple field on the way to see Taal

Church with large statue of Mary


A park we went to on the way to see Taal




View across the valley


Zip line across the valley

To the left you can see the people working the zip line




Vlad


Evie, Wes & Vlad




Interesting truck


Boats to Taal


Fishing village on the water


The gas "tank"


Vlad just got hit by a wave, the water was pretty choppy


At the island in the lake


Horses waiting to take tourists up the trail, we walked.






Steam from the volcano


At the volcanoes edge looking down into the crater at a lake
with an island





John, our driver


The trail as seen from the top


Wes & Vlad


Interesting contrast of grass and trees


Wes & Evie


Wes, looking like a thief with that bandana on his face,
note the tattoo


wild peppers


Security?


Walking back down the trail


getting back to the boat



After the ride back across the lake, we were all quite wet


Lunch @ Leslie's restaurant










Vlad brought his ukulele, he & Wes played for us on the way home.

Friday, August 07, 2009

Surfing lessons

We took surfing lessons at a water park

Blue shirts Vlad and Wes

Vlad is up! You can see Wes paddling out in the background.


Wes is on his board


Board gets away


Wes is up


Looks like he is standing on water, but there is a board there






I just couldn't get my legs to obey and stand up,
so later I swam and then took pictures


There's Wes' wipe out, it was great. He got applause from
the instructors. I missed the shot...of course! :(


There's Wes looking at his board


Vlad's wipe out...



It was great, feet up in the air, but I missed the shot.


Surfer dude!


Spider in the ladies' room, needless to say I didn't stay long