Deep earth
“Keep your sense of proportion by regularly, preferably daily,
visiting the natural world.” - Catlin Matthews
Here’s the link of the first segment of my 2009 Surigao Escapade : Tinuy-an Falls
Here’s the link of the second segment of my 2009 Surigao Escapade : Hagonoy Island
Coming from Hagonoy Island, we arrived at Mangagoy at around 8:25 in the morning and we took our breakfast in the area. After our breakfast meal we proceeded to our destination and passed by Bislig City proper at around 10:05 in the morning for our transportation to have it’s share of oil to keep us going.
It was 10:30 in the morning that we arrived at Kapatagan 2, Barangay San Vicente area where the jump-off area going the cave was located.
Entering into the realm...
It only took 10 minutes walk from the road where we left the jeep up to the mouth of the cave.
Looking from inside
The entrance of the cave has a 15 meter wide radius with a creek water and a miniature falls. We are marveled by the beauty of the cave, it’s ceiling having a 10 meter diameter opening in the middle allowing light to pass through and allowing birds and other winged species to in and out of the cave. All experiences of getting into the area would be worthwhile after seeing the depth of the earth. ^_^
shedding light hole
Hinayagan Cave was once called Suhoton Cave by the locals but renamed to what it is called now since there’s another cave bear the name Suhoton in the country. -I guess at Samar.. am i right?
Heads up!
Locals said that there’s an underground river in the cave to about 50 meters wide that leads to the entrance of the second cave but as we are limited on our time, we are just contented with the easier one.
Stalactites
I am hoping that locals will monitor the area for much further destruction of the cave. I saw some hand prints on the wall and some broken stalactites indicating it is not being taken cared of.
Ice cream looking
We departed at around 12:40 in the afternoon heading to our next destination which is Hinatuan’s Enchanted River.
underworld
This is the third segment of my post of my Surigao Summer Escapade.
Photo courtesy of Elmer, Randy, Anne, Jem and Sarah.
I will be posting this tomorrow about Hinatuan’s Enchanted River… Sounds mysterious huh! heheh
