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Labor Day Field Trip

May 1, 2008
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I have a day off from work because it's Labor Day. Imalech and I have long ago talked of going somewhere with the little one, and today just felt like a good time to go to Silliman University's Marine Laboratory.

After breakfast found the three of us making our way down from our mountains to the city beside the sea.

The Marine Laboratory of Silliman University houses a decent collection of bones from whales and huge fish beached on different shores in the surrounding islands near Negros Oriental. The lab also showcases a giant clam rearing facility; salt-water aquariums; a grouper tank, which is home to a trio of huge groupers and several companion fishes; and what seems to be a taxidermy display of marine animals --- dead, stuffed, and mounted. The lab is also known to be the home of several Philippine crocodiles, and in my college years, the lab also facilitates the breeding and raising of these endemic species of reptiles.

Clown Fish (Nemo, is that you?)

Sea anemone: A Clownfish's Kingdom

SU beach yonder

Imalech Checking Out the Clam Tank

Fish Bones

Sunbathing Croc

Ouch!

By the Grouper Tank; I Didn't Know Fish Could be Vicious

First time I followed what was written on the sign

Don Croc

Poor Snake!

This One's Missing Half of Its Tail

First Resident of the Artificial Reef

Sea Turtles

Majestic Even in Death

Truck Turtle Found in Amlan Years Ago

Stuffed Croc That Nearly Gave Us a Scare

Parrot-like Puffers

Another Puffer Species

Bony Fishes

After the trip to the Marine Lab, we took the long way home, passing across a new bridge in an isolated part of the city, up hilly terrain, where the road for most of the way was unpaved with exposed boulders and mudholes, and coming out through Pulangbato in Valencia.