Through The Lens: Surigo City's 'Little Venice' : Day-asan

Canon 40D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, f8, 1/5, ISO400

Day-asan is a bustling barangay, 30 kilometers from the city proper of surigao. One can take a multi-cab or habal-habal from the city-proper to reach the barangay.

Canon 400D, EFS 55-250mm IS, f8, 1/350, ISO400

What makes this place unique is the fact that houses here are erected on wooden stilts and bedded rocks and wooden bridges serve as the walk-way from location to another. Paddle and motorized boats server as a faster mean of transport, though.

"Nong, ja-on mag shooting? (Sir, will there be a movie shooting soon?)", one kid asked me as i was taking pictures around the area. Apparently, a few weeks before Robin Padilla came to shoot some scenes in his tele-serye in GMA, photographers and probably video-graphers were seen in the place. Robin Padilla's shoot then was him running through the length of this foot-bridge.

Canon 40D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, f11, 1/80, ISO400

Aqua-culture is the one of the major livelihood of the residents here.

Canon 400D, EFS 55-250mm IS, f11, 1/60, ISO400

Most houses would have a pond or two made up of nets with lobsters and crabs in them. They just grow this crustaceans here, so don't expect to be able to find restaurants or 'carenderias' here that serve them. Fresh fish and the likes are sold in the barangay market, though at very cheap prices.

Deep-sea fishing is another means of livelihood in the barangay. Going farther towards the open sea, one finds several fish-trawlers anchored for the day, awaiting for the high-tide that will come towards the evening.

Canon 40D, EF-S10-22mm f/3.5-4.5 USM, f11, 1/120, ISO400

Day-asan was really a chance discovery on my part. The original purpose of my visit to the place was to arrange for a transport to the Cantiasay Foot-bridge the following day.

The last rays of the sunset signaled that I should head back to the city. I will have to visit the place some other time to explore the mangrove forest beyond. Cantiasay will have to wait a little longer.