After lunch (upstairs at Lalaguna Beach Club and Dive Resort) on our third day, we went and sat on the beach again and I sketched this view of all the bancas lined up on the beach. A banca (sometimes spelt as bangka) is a dugout canoe-style small boat, with outriggers used by fisherfolk. If you look carefully you can see someone laying down reading a book in the shade of one of the boats. Round the point is another beach called Small Lalaguna Beach…hence the title of this.
Mon-30-Dec-2024
This is the second sketch I did on our third day when we moved from Sabang beach to Big Lalaguna beach. This little boat caught my eye immediately. In the water are little launches that lots of Chinese visitors were using to go out scuba diving…wearing some very odd looking outfits to my eyes.
Mon-30-Dec-2024
Here is the first of my beach sketches done on our little holiday in Puerto Galera. On our first day we went to ‘white beach’, which is one of the most popular beaches in the area – and it supposedly has white powdery sand (though I have been to beaches with whiter sand and I don’t really care what colour the sand is!). This is the first sketch in a newly made sketchbook – this time using 300gsm Baohong Hot Pressed paper (quite expensive but 100% cotton and acid free) and using a “spineless” method to bind it (inspired by a cheap sketchbook that a friend showed me), which makes it easier to fold the pages out completely flat.
Sun-29-Dec-2024