This day started rainy so we waited to go out until lunch time and then took a tricycle to Lake Danao Park where we first had a hot drink (and where I sketched this), then lunch (Margherita pizza for me…I always end up eating a lot of pizza on holiday in the Philippines at it is often the only veggie option) at another restaurant. Eventually my wife encouraged us to take a paddle boat out onto the lake…and by some miracle the rain stopped. We saw some nice birds (a lovely striated heron for example) out there.

Sun-4-Jan-2026