Wind, Rain, and Mud Water

Pig heads for sale at the local market.

Weather windy and bad.

Tropical storm just off the coast.

Possible typhoon.


For brunch, Taeko and Yuhka wanted to make ramen they brought from Japan. We first needed to get some eggs, and green onions. Since its Sunday, there’s a great local market just 5 minutes from my house in the town of Panglao. I’ve never seen it and it was the perfect time to check it out. All three of us drove there on my little motorbike.

Mostly live baby moray eels sold at the local market in Panglao.

The market was busy and there was a lot of fresh vegetables and even a small area for seafood and meats. Additionally, there were household goods being sold from different vendors. Taeko really wanted to buy fresh mangos because she fell in love with them. She told me that sweet mangos in Japan cost $300 USD! She better stock up now. Oddly, we couldn’t find a lot of fresh mangos.

I wandered off and visited the meat section of the market. I actually was a little disgusted of what I saw—pig heads, and live but dying baby moray eels slithering about. It was depressing to see the eels which were suffering and also to see so many of them when its already hard to find enough of them diving in the ocean.

Back at my place, Taeko and Yuhka cooked some very good pre-packaged ramen from Japan. It was so good, it was better then most ramen restaurants in Los Angeles. I was impressed. After lunch, we went to Alona Beach to see what was going on.

Lots of wind makes the look like mud.

Taeko at Oops.

Unfortunately there was a storm just off the coast and so there were a lot of surf which stirred up the water which made it look like mud. Not the best timing. Regardless, the sun was out at least which made it a windy but sunny day. We all just hung around the beach until nighttime where we went to Oops for some drinks and hung out with Ricky who’s a new dive instructor at Genesis.


- jason