noel alanguilan

i’ve been wanting to post these photos for a while now. this was the time when tito pacing, rosie and randy came with us when we visited san pablo city. we took them to a short trek to lake pandin — one of the seven lakes in the city proper. we also had a ride on a large bamboo raft — my first in this lake. all in all, i think tito pacing and the others enjoyed themselves.

robin took a swim after the ride but with a life vest.

this post is an experiment in using a wordpress photo gallery plugin.

trek to lake pandin

it was drizzling when we started the trek to lake pandin.

we have arrived

we have arrived

yambo

lake yambo is just beyond that 'v' at the far end of the lake. pandin and yambo are often called the twin lakes.

horsie

tito pacing and randy

tito pacing and randy

tito pacing

randy

robin wants to swim

robin wants to swim and we didn't allow him to hence that face. rosie and cherry is at the back

bamboo rafts

we rode the bamboo rafts to the the far end of the lake.

fiddling with the camera

tito pacing on the raft on the lake fiddling with his camera.

other visitors

there were other visitors too

randy and the pose

nearing sunset

nearing sunset and about to take our trek back.

ducks

ducks. mates i guess

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first ride of the year. its a 20km (or thereabouts) loop in san pablo city. the pictures were actually taken 31 december 2007 but i took cherry out on the same loop on 02 january 2008 and i didn’t have time to take pictures then so…

i don’t know the total distance covered because i don’t have a computer on the bike and the photos were taken by a 0.3 megapix camera phone so quality is not “up there”.

(above) start of the ride. it was mostly cement roads but take note of the open runoff on the right.

(above) welcome to barangay dolores. start of a deceptive climb — you’d think its easy but its the type that does up sloooowly.

(above) palakpakin lake. we have seven lakes in the city. this is one of the smaller ones.

(above) i didn’t know we had rice fields within the city perimeter. duh. i should go out more often. it started to drizzle after taking this photo.

absolutely fun ride. cherry had a mountain bike so gearing for her was not really a problem. by choice, i was running a 42 x 21 most of the way. ugh. the burn. the burn.

i’d do it again though.