Weekend in Misamis Oriental

8 June 2009 434 views 8 Comments

I am not thinking.. Zzz.

These past few weeks, there were loads of projects worked lately, busy, bit stressful, giving me less time to rest. It was cluttered and needs to sort them out and somehow I felt a bit lonely. Am I walking too fast that I left everybody behind? Or did I just turned somewhere and was actually lost? Was it just my time that moves so fast that I wasn’t able to catch up?

Thinking about what to do on weekends – work on pending projects, checking todo lists, errands, biking and going out somewhere? What’s new?

Served seashells for lunch at Kainan by The Sea

Though I missed another weekend pre-climb to Malasag for the D2K climb, I’m grateful our hardworking team decided to take a weekend get-together at Duka Bay Resort, which is just 95 kilometers or about 2 hours smooth ride away from Cagayan de Oro City. We left the city before noon and took our lunch at Kainan by The Sea, one of the seaside restaurants in Talisayan, Misamis Oriental.

Duka Bay Resort in Medina, a municipality after Talisayan, is famous for its water activities such as scuba diving, snorkling, boating, stream fishing, and ideal for family picnics and recreation. We stayed at Villa Sophia, one of the premises found along the beach, a very ideal place to unwind, catching up things and closing gaps between friends and families.

If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera. ~Lewis Hine.

One of the favorite activities I did was feeding while swimming with different kinds of fishes. Equipped with life vest, swimfins and a snorkel will let you experienced the amazing fish sanctuary just 500 meters away from the shore and I never thought of finding Nemo.

Sunset at Duka Bay showing Camiguin Island in background

Swimming is like flying. At some time, everything went slow and my cluttered mind was at peace, while looking below the depths, amazed by these creatures and felt like I was welcomed to their water world.

Spending the weekend in waters after a busy, stressful weeks somehow dispense our inner thoughts and feelings to these outlets.

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8 Comments »

Mine said:

Hmm! Speechless!

# 9 June 2009 at 10:23 pm

Mabuc said:

Iba ka talaga goms… whew speechless pud ko dah

# 10 June 2009 at 8:49 pm

noel said:

Nice article dude. Duka Bay Resort has become a place I can really boast and be proud of. After all, I was born in that town (Medina). The Pelaez’ family’s decision to develop the place was just perfect and should place Medina back in the world map in no time. I see that they’ve set up a website called dukabayresort-tours.com. I am not an expert at web design but I think they should lighten up on those large bold text that occupy the whole page and instead put more pictures on display. Pictures, after all tell more than words. Or maybe, that’s how it works with commercial sites(?).

# 15 June 2009 at 9:53 pm

Travel Mindanao said:

I really had fun when I visited Duka Bay. Hope I could go scuba diving the next time

# 16 June 2009 at 2:19 pm

bleue said:

Thanks for visiting my site. I am actually going to CDO on 27-28th, I’ll go diving in Duka Bay on the 27th and dvance water rafting on the 28th

# 17 June 2009 at 2:05 am

ryan said:

hi people……….you know what i really miss duka bay resort…..i enjoy the time that we spend the holly week 2009 at duka…..its nice and amazing place,its cool………i promise to visit that place again soon…….hmpppppppppp im from butuan city.
what i enjoyed most at duka? the glass boat,the views,the beach,the people also……………
…..miss u duka…..hehehehehehe
…….more power

# 15 December 2009 at 7:57 am