My
second time around in Talicud Island had me joining a specialized workshop on
tourism and travel photography as hosted by the Department of Tourism XI last
September 26-27. The venue was quite exciting, featuring a new beach resort in
the island, La Isla Bonita (LIB), which is owned by a good friend Miss Araceli
Ayuste, the same person who manages the famous Punta del Sol Resort in
Peñaplata, Island Garden City of Samal (IGACOS).
The
very purpose of choosing the island as the venue of the workshop is to make
sure that participants would be able to internalize photography principles as imparted
by our resource person, master photographer Rhonson Ng. We stayed for one night
in the place and we eventually succeeded our expectation to learn travel and
tourism photography.
The
resort is cool. It has clear blue waters facing the huge Davao Gulf and is uniformly
contrasted with the fine white sand, a trademark in Talicud. It also offers
panoramic view of two major mountains in Mindanao – Mt. Apo and Mt. Matutum and
the vast mountain scape of the south western Mindanao. The tall coconut trees
formed part of its charming beach landscape.
While
traveling to and from the resort as part of the itinerary of the workshop, we
were oriented to some interesting spots in Talicud such as the mangrove
sanctuary and the remarkable “friendship road” as locals would put it.
As
a portion of Kaputian, Talicud Island promises to be the next destination in
IGACOS. Although LIB is the lone resort in the place, it won’t be too long for
this place to be a haven of tourists and visitors because of its natural but attractive
beach attributes.
Thank you very much
to the Department of Tourism for inviting me there in the workshop. Photography,
indeed, gave me another way to play inside this beautiful part of the universe.
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