Post by Karl Welteke on May 3, 2010 20:12:25 GMT 8
Made another visit to Corregidor Island and this time alone. My goal this time to visit Battery Point and James Ravine and look at all the clearing work CFI has done. This time I also used the ferry because the Villa Carmen increased their fee because they joined the Cabcaben Boat association. This visit will be 4 days and 3 nights. Again like before I present my trip report in stages because it takes time to select the photos and write titles and descriptions to them. This is day one with 40 images:
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And here is my dairy for the 1st day:
Corregidor Dairy
2010, 26th to 29th Apr. Ravines
Day One, Monday the 26th Apr.
This is the 2nd time I traveled by bus to Manila and taxi to CCP to catch the Sun Cruise Ferry since Villa Carmen increased their fees almost double because they joined the Cabcaben Boat Association. Got up at 2:30 am, the bus left Olongapo 3:40 and I arrived at the CCP about 06:40. I paid 1000 Peso for a round trip as a commuter. 0730 is the cutoff time for signing up and they called me and I think, I was the only visitor commuter on this trip. PFW wanted to come but his finances are stretched.
Checked into MacArthur Café for a 750 Peso fan room, special price for me, settled in and got ready for my 1st goal, Battery Point. Fist I checked in with the hotel to tell them I want to return on Thursday and that the terminal at CCP didn’t give me receipt or roundtrip/return ticket. I also handed out some pictures I had printed for various people from the 65th Anniversary Trip with trooper Lopez.
Walked up to the Northroad near Eng. Wharf, on to the old road to Battery Point and then down that road. One can tell the Battery Point road is being used as a trail and it was fairly easy to walk, maybe 4 trees fell over the road at places but one could go either under or over. For good measure I cut a lot of branches to contribute in keeping this trail, on the old road, down to Battery Point open.
When I reached the Northroad from near the Eng. Wharf I had a close look at the 1 of 4 ‘mobile shelters’ (AJM and I know of) and that is what I call them. The Northroad is fairly clear and a Corregidor staff member used it with his motor bike while I was walking there.
At Battery point much is destroyed or grown over with grass or banana plants. What I seen, I’m not sure what it is. I think, I seen part of the two 75 mm gun empl.,(1935 map), maybe part of SL #1. I did see a substantial culvert under the road near the beach. There is a face of cemented rocks, at the water’s edge, was that part of the trench?
I did try to find the ‘Bombproof Inf. Tunnel’, walked a long way in and up that ravine and didn’t find it. Noteworthy is that water is still running out of the ground there and even into the concrete catch basin above next to the Northroad, even though we are in April of the dry season. About 15 feet up-ravine from the entrance of the culvert is another substantial dislodged box culvert. Why is that here, there is no road, was that for the Bombproof Inf. Tunnel?
Here is what I didn’t see, mostly accordingly the 1936 map: VII-M-3, S.M.S.H. No.6, VII-F-3, and VII-S-3, VII-M-6, VII-M-4 and none of the concrete beams.
I walked back up to the Northroad, then further towards west, passed the spring water catch basin to Road Junction 76, just above Battery Point, walked up that branch road and then short-cut down back to the Northroad to the spring water catch basin. I didn’t see anything on that road and when it got difficult I cut back down.
At the big bend of the Northroad, near the Eng. Wharf I took a set of images of the ‘Four-Post Shelter for a gun position. Because this a prime example that many concrete structures will destroy themselves eventually because of the rusting rebar in them. So it is not only the ‘Scrappers’.
Then I went up to VII-F-2 and the last Japanese gun still standing in the field and took sets of pictures.
After that I returned to MacArthur Café, cleaned up and met the Kwiecinski couple and had a pleasant conservation. As we often do we ordered the Carlos recipe (new word by Jose, the MacArthur innkeeper) aka as ‘Same Same’ or the ‘Carlos Meal’. It is 2 fried eggs with pork n beans and rice.
The weather today was hot and sunny, had NE (or about from that direction) winds and crossing the North Channel by outrigger boat wouldn’t have been a problem. The sea was only mildly choppy. In about 4 hours I drank 3 liters of water.
END
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And here is my dairy for the 1st day:
Corregidor Dairy
2010, 26th to 29th Apr. Ravines
Day One, Monday the 26th Apr.
This is the 2nd time I traveled by bus to Manila and taxi to CCP to catch the Sun Cruise Ferry since Villa Carmen increased their fees almost double because they joined the Cabcaben Boat Association. Got up at 2:30 am, the bus left Olongapo 3:40 and I arrived at the CCP about 06:40. I paid 1000 Peso for a round trip as a commuter. 0730 is the cutoff time for signing up and they called me and I think, I was the only visitor commuter on this trip. PFW wanted to come but his finances are stretched.
Checked into MacArthur Café for a 750 Peso fan room, special price for me, settled in and got ready for my 1st goal, Battery Point. Fist I checked in with the hotel to tell them I want to return on Thursday and that the terminal at CCP didn’t give me receipt or roundtrip/return ticket. I also handed out some pictures I had printed for various people from the 65th Anniversary Trip with trooper Lopez.
Walked up to the Northroad near Eng. Wharf, on to the old road to Battery Point and then down that road. One can tell the Battery Point road is being used as a trail and it was fairly easy to walk, maybe 4 trees fell over the road at places but one could go either under or over. For good measure I cut a lot of branches to contribute in keeping this trail, on the old road, down to Battery Point open.
When I reached the Northroad from near the Eng. Wharf I had a close look at the 1 of 4 ‘mobile shelters’ (AJM and I know of) and that is what I call them. The Northroad is fairly clear and a Corregidor staff member used it with his motor bike while I was walking there.
At Battery point much is destroyed or grown over with grass or banana plants. What I seen, I’m not sure what it is. I think, I seen part of the two 75 mm gun empl.,(1935 map), maybe part of SL #1. I did see a substantial culvert under the road near the beach. There is a face of cemented rocks, at the water’s edge, was that part of the trench?
I did try to find the ‘Bombproof Inf. Tunnel’, walked a long way in and up that ravine and didn’t find it. Noteworthy is that water is still running out of the ground there and even into the concrete catch basin above next to the Northroad, even though we are in April of the dry season. About 15 feet up-ravine from the entrance of the culvert is another substantial dislodged box culvert. Why is that here, there is no road, was that for the Bombproof Inf. Tunnel?
Here is what I didn’t see, mostly accordingly the 1936 map: VII-M-3, S.M.S.H. No.6, VII-F-3, and VII-S-3, VII-M-6, VII-M-4 and none of the concrete beams.
I walked back up to the Northroad, then further towards west, passed the spring water catch basin to Road Junction 76, just above Battery Point, walked up that branch road and then short-cut down back to the Northroad to the spring water catch basin. I didn’t see anything on that road and when it got difficult I cut back down.
At the big bend of the Northroad, near the Eng. Wharf I took a set of images of the ‘Four-Post Shelter for a gun position. Because this a prime example that many concrete structures will destroy themselves eventually because of the rusting rebar in them. So it is not only the ‘Scrappers’.
Then I went up to VII-F-2 and the last Japanese gun still standing in the field and took sets of pictures.
After that I returned to MacArthur Café, cleaned up and met the Kwiecinski couple and had a pleasant conservation. As we often do we ordered the Carlos recipe (new word by Jose, the MacArthur innkeeper) aka as ‘Same Same’ or the ‘Carlos Meal’. It is 2 fried eggs with pork n beans and rice.
The weather today was hot and sunny, had NE (or about from that direction) winds and crossing the North Channel by outrigger boat wouldn’t have been a problem. The sea was only mildly choppy. In about 4 hours I drank 3 liters of water.
END