The first stop on my itinerary; I honestly didn’t know what to expect and I was just taking it literally, a simple lighthouse obviously by a body of water. After I met up with my tour guide, anxious about the day ahead I started interrogating my tour guide on how the people are, questions basically about how life is in Tanay. While he was enthusiastically answering every question I threw at him he was also signaling me to turn left or right at the same time, cruising by neighborhoods and small side streets, taking my time taking in the scenes we were passing by.Then suddenly we were at the sea. Amusingly surprised by the fact that I forgot that we were heading here and true enough, it was a befitting “first stop” by all means. Entering the gate, I noticed a sign attached, saying that there was a certain time where vehicles could not enter the dike leading to the lighthouse, I was about to ask my guide about it but I was taking in too much scenery that it just escaped me. We passed rice fields where their respective farmers were already working on their crops and I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if they were there since the crack of dawn. Livestock such as goats and cows also seemingly getting ready for the day ahead, lying around and taking in the sun, scenes of fishing boats, fishermen and fisheries quarried and made with bamboo, looked from afar as tall white grass sprouting from the sea. All of it caught me off guard because it all seemed so surreal being that near to the town proper and I was expecting a longer drive. I can only describe what I felt as this: The entire scene seemed to have suddenly been dropped in front of me from the heavens without warning, I was truly in awe.
