another spur of the moment

view from the rented hut at leslie's tagaytay


rainy day that saturday, much like today. except that there were some spots of sun amidst the downpours. someone felt the need to see the sunset from the tagaytay highlands, and a bunch of us were sufficiently energized by that notion to pile into a car and drive off down south.

naturally, there were some fits and false starts thrown in before the trip actually got underway, but underway we were, at about 2 in the afternoon.

after about an hour, we were ensconced in one of the rentable cliffside huts of an establishment by the name of "leslie's". the view from our particular hut, as per the picture, was framed by two other huts with uninterrupted views of the volcano on an island within a lake on a larger island. i figure that the square structures on the water are fishpens of a sort, though how fish survive in the acidic water of the lake (which is itself a caldera lake, if you stop to think about it) is unknown to me.

after some photo shenanigans, lunch was had at about three, and the food was good, and the wind, chilly.

hooray for impromptu trips.

incidentally, the trip's instigator didn't see the sunset. we repaired to the picnic grove to see the "nature walk" i think it's called, and sunset was therefore hidden from view when that particular time rolled around.

...perhaps our next trip should be to the breakwaters at manila bay. at least the sunset there ought to be a sure thing to see.