Last thing I remember I was running for the door.
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before.
"Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive,
you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave! "
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before.
"Relax, " said the night man, "We are programmed to receive,
you can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave! "
Despite the hour, we were met at the Pacay Coach Station by the usual 'wall' of taxi and tuk-tuk drivers, selecting one and agreeing a price it was grab a coffee and away. Good choice of driver, as not only did he get me across town to the right bus stop but also waited a full 20 minutes to see me onto the right bus and brief the driver.
All of this stems from what on the face of it looked like a great idea and region to visit via advice supplied by Langton's own Steve Smith, and how right he is! A little before 09:00 we arrived at the bustling, South Luzon town of Los Baños where having been shown the way to go by the bus driver my destination was now the
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looking around to assess my bearings, a young lad approached me saying the Bus Driver was pointing me in the right direction, and then asked where I was going. Needing accommodation as well as the forest the young man advised that it would be his Grandmother who I should meet and took me to her house only a few hundred yards away. Instead I was introduced to Uncle Al, the biggest, fittest looking Filipino I had seen yet. A font of knowledge, he described his plan, loaded me and my bag into his 4 x 4 and whizzed me off to the campus.
Some egg-laying going on here I fancy!
and then there it was - the first BIRD - but not just a bird, as the
STRIPE-HEADED RHABDORNIS
is also an ENDEMIC and
PHILIPPINE FALCONET
again ENDEMIC and of course new to me
'Flowers in the Rain' by The Move (first record ever played on BBC Radio One)
and yes it was raining!
and yes it was raining!