Barangay Tinago

November 8, 2012

This is a pedicab or putput

A lesson in how the political boundaries work here:

Nation-Philippines, province-Leyte (like a state), Municipality-Inopacan (like a county), baranaguy-Tinago (like a county within a county). Inopacan has 20 baranguys, nine coastal with one of those being the three islands.

In every municipality the barangay where the municipal hall and Local Government Unit (LGU) offices are found is called Poblacion.

A nice nipa hut

I decided to take a walk through barangay Tinago. I live in Tinago; on the street that divides Tinago from Poblacion.

Looking north towards town

I wanted to see how far I could walk along the sea wall heading south. As it turned out, it wasn’t very far.

At the end of the sea wall and where fishermen leave their boats in the protection of the mangroves

 At this point I had to cut through some yards to get to the the road but folks don't mind a bit and point the way.

Tinago mainstreet

papayas

orchids

looks sort of like hops

 

 I walked to where the road ended, looked right and discovered a huge dock I didn't know was there with lots of fishing boat activity going on.

looking back toward town from the dock

 

 

 

From the dock I could see the Bamboo Boardwalk/Nature Walk that runs a kilometer through mangroves; the nature walk I’ll be working on as an eco-tourism attraction along with our white sandy beached islands with Marine Protected Areas for diving and snorkling, waterfalls, caves, rhomblon weaving production, etc.