The Sights at San Teodoro
Life at San Teodoro is very quiet.
While Dennis and I were out, we saw this kitty cat on the neighbor’s sill. Nothing can best describe how quiet and simple life here can be.
That doesn’t mean, however, that nothing ever happens at San Teodoro, nor that there’s nothing to do or see there.
Corrine spent her grade school years here in San Teodoro. Her school was just a couple of hundred meters away from her home. As Dennis and I walked around the town, I tried to imagine how it was for a child simply walking to and from her house to go to school.
I’ve always lived far from school; there was never a time in my early years that I had the luxury of sleeping till an hour until the bell rings for classes. It would always be at least two hours before then; sometimes, even three.
This is Corrine’s elementary school. It is a very typical government school in the province. But this is a big government school.
I was very taken by the architecture and the facade. And its cleanliness! I mean, the school and the grounds were so clean, they practically sparkled! Perhpas it was the clean air itself that made things simply stand out.
Overall, the school looked like something straight from the 50s with its low buildings and sprawling grounds. I half expected to see American GIs emerge from the buildings.
That is, until the pig came along.
I was taking a shot of the school when this tricycle buzzed by carrying a pig in its sidecar. What are the chances for a shot like this!
The Beach
This is the beach at San Teodoro. People simply walk from their homes to the beach. In the afternoons, usually around five when the sun has lost much of its scorching heat, children troop to the ocean for a cool swim.
The sand, although not white, is clean and fine. The water’s depth remains waist high for a distance out into the sea, so there’s nothing to alarm mothers. Besides, these are kids who’ve grown up beside the sea. They probably swim like dolphins.
What a cool way to live! Whenever you feel like a swim, you just pop out of your door and head for your village’s backyard where the ocean waits for you!
Punta Beach
There is a portion of this stretch of beach that holds very interesting objects.
Punta Beach has huge, gigantic rocks littered all over the sand. The biggest looks like a gargantuan sea monster that has crouched on the beach, with its mouth in the water. It looks like it’s drinking, doesn’t it?
Dennis says it looks like a rabbit. I say it’s a giant sea monster! Probably frozen in time when the ice age hit. Or something or other.
There were children among the rocks when we got there. They were picking shellfish for that evening’s meal. I didn’t peek into their buckets.
We walked to Punta Beach in the late afternoon and what you see is the gold of the setting sun. I tried to capture the sunset and got it as the sun set behind a rocky hill stepping right into the ocean.
Mindoro’s coastline, or what Iv’e seen of it, is characterized by such rock formations. In this portion, the rock can be huge and towering, or simply here and there, the type over which you can easily clamber.
At Punta Beach, the clambering types are very interesting as they can be of different colors. I wanted to take pictures of them, looking very much like dark marble, with white threads crisscrossing to make gossamer patterns. There wasn’t much light, however, and it was getting dark. We headed back home.
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