Date: Jan 05 2001 20:20:20 EST
From: "Moalboal Mailing List" <starner@hotmail.com>:
Subject: [Moalboal Mailing List] Moalboal year 2001 mail #12
Moalboal beginning of 2001
Hello People!!
WEATHER:
We had a fairly strong typhoon here in the beginning of December. No big
drama, but Cebu was without electricity for 2 days. Sea Explorer and Globe
divers˙ boats sank down to the outriggers with their outboard engines on.
Savedras small boat was totally damaged. Austrian Nick had just bought 70
kilos of meat in the city so he was not too happy about the brown out.
ACTIVITIES:
The sunken island buoy is now installed (again). With a bit of luck it
might stay there for a year or two.
The concrete road that was to be ready in November is actually happening.
It˙s now 200 meters past the Islacom teletower. Once the election is over
they will probably stop, but we should be happy for every meter.
BIRTHS, SOCIAL AND GOSSIP:
The whale sharks here are spotted about twice a week these days. Globe
diver spotted 3 at Pescador and Clemens with customers spotted two at
Sunken Island the other day. I think I˙m the only one that have not seen
one (but then again someone told me that you actually have to be in the
water to see one :-) )
The soccer games every Monday and Friday are a hit. If you want to join
us: just show up at the grass field in Moalboal around 16:30. White beach
Sundays with BBQ, volleyball, sun and beer are being organized by Jack.
Just show up and have fun. Last Sunday Neptune came with their boat and we
were 23 foreigners/girlfriends and a few kids. I think most dive shops
should have their afternoon dive at white beach and then have BBQ there.
Moalboals oldest diver, Horst (77) is back again. Diving at Nelson and
always with a smile on his face.
LETTERS FROM ABROAD:
Rick Festa, Larry's brother, wants to tell us that he now has made a home
page for the Festa Fantasy Island resort. www.hompages.go.com/~festa . If
you want to check other homepages you can always go to the excellent
http://www.moalboal.org.uk/ that is designed and run by Simon.
PARTY:
We had many parties here during Christmas. I think EVE's had the best one
though. Everybody ended up in the pool, even Nelson and Jerry. Jack
thought it was so much fun to throw ppl. in the pool so he made several
trips to Lloyds across the street to find girls he could get wet.
Mark, Honda, Eugene, Steve and I started the New years celebration with
finishing one crate of beer under water (a Nelson dive shop tradition).
Around noon most of the ppl here made it to White beach for BBQ, Beer and
Volleyball. In the evening the biggest parties were at Nelsons and Visaya
divers who had a 40,000 peso fireworks display.
GENERAL:
If anyone has any information that they think would be interesting for
people on this list, please do let me know and I will add it in.
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Best regards,
Lars Starner,
starner@hotmail.com
http://www.moalboal.org.uk/
Copyright (c) Lars Starner 2001. All rights reserved
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