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Someone obviously believes that the deep and dark waters of Taal Lake are somehow similar to those of the famed Loch Ness and has taken the trouble to view endless hours of images from the IP camera (webcam) that is attached to the second coconut tree to the left of the Taal Lake Yacht Club lake-shore bar. They have captured a sequence of images that clearly show something that suddenly appears about 100 feet from the camera and then slowly proceeds across the screen, ducking and diving, before disappearing from view some minutes later. The video is now on YouTube (see bottom of this article for the link).

Certainly Taal Lake holds many of Nature's hidden treasures and some yet to be described creatures, trapped there after the six-month long volcanic eruption of 1754, but a monster like Nessie? It seems too incredible. However, as we have seen in other parts of the World, since the widespread use of cameras that do nothing but sit there and take images all day, where people are not so frequent, sometimes the incredible can be wi

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Under the auspices of the Philippine Sailing Association, the Saturday Afternoon Gentlemen's Sailing group (“SAGS”) plus the Subic Bay Yacht Club & the Lighthouse Marina Resort Hotel, will organize a yacht race from Subic Bay Freeport to the world-famous, white sand beach resort paradise of Boracay Beach.

The 205-mile race is different from anything that has gone before insomuch as the yachts will have a choice of courses to get to Boracay Beach. The traditional route to Boracay from northern Luzon is: South along the Batangas coast, through the Verde Island Passage past Puerto Galera and then along the East coast of Mindoro Island before (frequently) surfing down the Tablas Strait to Boracay. This year the race organizers are offering the option of taking the route along the West coast of Mindoro Island – a 30-mile longer route that avoids the sometimes mast-breaking Verde Island Passage and the infamous “hole” off Dumal

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The Philippine Sailing Team may have been the smallest team at the Mirror Class World Championships 2011, (held in Albany, Western Australia, over the New Year period) but they put on the biggest show and outperformed almost all others in the Overall, Youth and Silver Fleet divisions.

Ridgely Balladares and Rommel Chavez, previous participants in Albany, fought fearlessly for the Philippine Sailing Team. For much of the event they were in third place overall but on the final day inched ahead of rivals to finish in second place, with a total points score better than the first place finishers from Ireland. Scoring no less than three 1st place finishes out of fifteen races they flew the Philippine flag