The weather has been cool, dark, and windy which is just perfect for me! manila got stomped in the storm and everyone (including the President) keeps calling it a typhoon although it never once reached those wind speeds to rise from a tropical storm classification. But rain? Oh yea, it dumped the most ever recorded [...]
Ten years ago, I was in the Army and full of benefits. At year 10, they pretty much tell you to screw off and don’t call again so this was a good opportunity to have a personal celebration day. Around noon, I realized what day it was and headed down to sip-n-grip some purple drank! [...]
A few days ago, a dive instructor asked why I’ve only gone diving with Blue Mango during my two years on Boracay: They treat me like a family friend, not like a customer. Simple as that. Went on a excellent dive at Friday’s Rock with a young Australian couple, Dustin, and myself. We back-rolled down [...]
Went diving yesterday after a few months off – and now, I hurt. Thankfully the water was nice and cool with overhead cloudiness. I really do know better, but of course failed to use sunblock. It was a double dive with Blue Mango’s new instructor, Tom (UK). He’s spent the last 8 months with the [...]
Which is 3 more than I normally eat in a 24hr period. Insomnia had me out early and down at Blue Mango for breakfast, 2 eggs however you want them, wheat bread toast, bacon (or ham slice), and mango jam & butter. Wow, breakfast…. me….who would have thought?! A few hours later I got the [...]
WTF! Seriously, wtf is going on with me getting a head-cold? At first I though it was a hang-over since I stayed up almost 24hr drinking myself stupid, but this fucking hurts. Neck, eyes, sinus, shoulder and head muscles, headache…. took a Sinutab and tried taking another one an hour later but my throat seems [...]
Normally I would spend time making a good post on the crazy things that go one around here, especially the ones people have to tell me about because I blacked out, but since I have very limited time on the computer here Blue Mango–its gonna be brief. Red Pirates lost their boat, then found it [...]
I was sitting in Cocolocos yesterday evening (Boracay, not the resort island) and friend comes over telling how his illness cleared up and he could go diving again, unlike myself. Then he says that out near Virgin Drop, him and the shop manager/instructor of Blue Mango diveshop saw a dolphin just under 2 meters long [...]
I completely forgot I had these pictures until I saw Jung post this article. Its about a sponge crab that took a plastic bag as its ‘sponge’. This past month, I saw my first sponge crab (huge! carapace almost a foot wide). It was on a night dive with Dustin of Blue Mango. This thing [...]
There was this guy that left today….lets call him Lance…mostly because that’s his name. Well, this happinin’ cool cat spent a good amount of time here for his vacation and decided to throw a going-away party for himself after a month of dutiful service on the island. I found out the night before but everyone [...]
Guess I haven’t been putting my diving in here. I started the Master Scuba Diver plan with Dustin at Blue Mango. I’m filling up on cert cards and getting Tech I at the end. His big thing is that I get plenty of diving in and know my skills for the specialty certs. It does [...]
jeeze, i feel like crap right now. came home last night and it started raining again so those damn roaches started coming in … but i forgot that the posion was already down and they’d die in an hour or so. my dumbass started spraying again and with the few drinks in me, guess i [...]
Went diving with Dustin yesterday at Blue Mango and enjoyed the hell out of it. I’m tired and just woke up late as hell. Was supposed ot be ther at 08:30, it’s now almost 11:00. I was up all night watching movies and CRAP I’m still tired.
Brown out, black out, power outage; whatever you want to call it. I’m down at Blue Mango and sure enough, the generator is running. Supposedly for 2 months, the power will be out daily. How does this happen? After a typhoon, they can get it up after 5 days but now the entire island is [...]
Yes, I’m in a much better mood. Why? Easy…. I got myself an aluminum baseball bat. That’s all it took. Have bat, will travel. I bought 1 of only 2 for sale on the island. The other was a wooden thing that was made from a plank board – first hit on anything and it [...]
I don’t really remember when I started but it was around 04:30 when I woke up and left for Isla Baila, which is still closed for construction, which is OK because I had a tab there. So heck, now I’m just gonna have to bar-hop my way down the beach to all those tiny hotel [...]
Today, July 1st, 2008 marks my one year anniversary on Boracay. I had parted ways with Iraq and The Company in mid June 2007. No more contractor for me. They gave me a ticket going to Texas by the most lengthy and impossible route imaginable. I had no intention of going back to the USA. [...]
AaaaHooo!!!! 5 Days now the power has been out on Boracay. The typhoon “Frank” (I know) came in as a mild warning on Friday…nothing special expected here and was supposed to peak around 2pm that day. Whoops. I have too much cleaning up to do now that the power and water are back on so [...]
I should get paid for the amount of irresponsibility that exudes from my very essence. I was taking an easy day, so I thought. Nothing in the house that I cared to eat but I hadn’t been to the ATM in a while and 40 pesos wasn’t getting me anything near here. Buuuutttt, there is [...]
I learned a lesson. Life lesson. Never read Tucker Max just before going out unless you already know his shit. Poor decisions will be made. There was a line in there: “…because I am a bad person.” I used to be a bad person but somewhere between losing military rank 5 times in only 4 [...]
Today, I finally got back in the water again! Whoo Hoo! I had taken my gear down to Blue Mango a few days ago to get it back in the rinse tanks and check it over… re-seasoning it I guess we could say. We had some really good friends come in the same day and [...]