Bulusan Lake

About 630 kms south of Manila, 350+ MASL and at the heart of Bulusan Volcano National Park (BVNP) lies the Green Lake Bulusan. This is one of Ravenlock's fave place since its just a few kilometers away from his home town, a place where he can relax and escape from the tiring urban life. It’s a nature trip, tropical rainforest surrounds the lake, you can hear bees humming while they collect nectars, you can hear sounds of “duli-duli” (cicada) all over the place and from time to time, different kind of birds can also be seen flying around the lake. A cement path is built around the lake for visitors who want to trek and enjoy the scenes.



Kayaking is also available in the lake.



The lake is currently managed by volunteers from Aggrupation of Advocates for Environmental Protection or locally known as the Agap-Bulusan.

From Sorsogon City, the lake is accessible either through the town of Irosin, passing the towns of Casiguran and Juban. From Irosin, it is another 10 kms to the site. The other is passing through a very scenic route overlooking the Pacific Ocean through the towns of Gubat, Barcelona and the poblacion of Bulusan town.

Update

Toinks! It's been almost 8 months since I last updated this blog.. been lazy. Anyway, today I decided to put some stuffs here.. wait for it.. :)

Driver's License Renewal

Ravenlock went to LTO Sorsogon today to renew his expired driver's license. When he was about to pay the registration fees, he found out that he needed to pay to MMDA for some traffic violation he committed dated Feb 2007. That was crazy and he can't believe it coz as far as he know, he doesn't drive around Manila that time and he don't own a car. It was so unfair.

Anyway, he was oblige to pay to save any further trouble, and will have to wait for 3 days to clear his name and proceed with his license renewal.

Domain and Web Hosting

Ravenlock’s been thinking a lot on registering his own domain, so he’s been browsing the net looking for local, cheap but good and reliable web hosting service for starters. He’s been considering philhosting, but found out some bad feedbacks regarding the company.

A few days ago, Hostingphil added Ravenlock on facebook and it looks promising. So he looks for reviews about the company through “google” and found few (and it doesn’t have negative feedbacks) so he just assumes that it’s offering good service. For now, it’s his top option.

One of these days, surely, Ravenlock would go buy his own domain and build his own website that is within his full control.

Back to Bicol

Ravenlock is back here in Bicol. He just spent his new year at Lucena City, at Sheki’s place then went to Manila to attend Chyi’s (a college org sis) wedding at Mango Farm, Antipolo.

On his way home, he watched “Ang Panday” at Ali Mall, Cubao to kill some time while waiting for the bus going to Bicol. The film was ok and Iza Calzado looks great!

Bought some upgrades for his M4 CQB (a 145 spring and spring guide), needed more power for airsoft wargames (plans to buy more upgrades). Hungers for M4 Stubby Killer.

Happy New Year

Ravenlock is off to Lucena/Manila and will be back next year. Happy
New Year!!! :p

Mayon Volcano

Yesterday, Ravenlock drove himself to Legazpi City, Albay on his bike, hoping to take photos of the hyped Mayon Volcano. He arrived at Ligñon Hill around 3pm, this nature park on top of the hill they say offers the best view of Mayon around Legazpi City. The hill indeed has a grand view of Mayon Volcano on one side and on the other side, Legazpi City with the Albay Gulf. He was so glad he was on his bike or else he’d walk all the way up, large vehicles are not allowed uphill coz parking is full.



The upper half of the volcano is covered with clouds and smokes and what Ravenlock saw was just a few traces of smoking hot lava flow on the mid section of Mayon. Disappointed, he decided to wait until dark hoping to see the “glow in the dark” lava flows live. So he strolls around the hill taking pictures especially of the rappelling people going down. Zipline here offers rappelling for 200 pesos.



Darkness came, there were so many expectators around (local and foreign) but the volcano disappoints them all. Still, there were just a few visible lava traces to be seen, the volcano seems to be taking a break now.

Anyway, here is another shot of Mayon Volcano during sunrise, (got this shot a year ago).