HAPPY NEW YEAR ONE AND ALL.
No matter what you may all think we are not here for ever, but only until the wind and currents are right for us to head to Taiwan. In the meantime this is a pretty good place to be. We can't give our actual location...but we can give clues.....
1) we are tied up to building that houses a bar and a restaurant.....
2) the owner of the bar is a 'pirate treasure hunter'...now retired
The costs of staying here are many and varied.....we eat here once a day, Carol is intiating the kitchen into the delights of self saucing chocolate pudding, lemon meringue pie, lamingtons etc etc.
Subic Bay area was originally set up as a Pacific Naval Base by the Americans to compliment Clark Air Base. It is a natural harbour about the size of Wellington NZ with much to-ing and fro-ing by tugs as they lead in petrol tankers of varying sizes. The USA closed the base approximately 13years ago, but there is still a fair amount of USA activity.
On the far side of the bay is a Korean owned ship yard.We were fortunate enough to be invited to tour this huge, in fact monstrous, business. There are approx 12000 Philippines employed here, plus other nation
About Me
- yachtcharioteer
- In 2000 we start learning to sail. Then we started to explore the South Pacific. We have spent the last few years in Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, Korea,and one month in China. Now we are sailing back to New Zealand via Tasmania, Australia. Once we get home we shall repaint, redeck, revamp CHARIOTEER...and then who knows... We have one son,a super daughter in law and three grandaughters.