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One of my in-laws who’s working at PHINMA took the two kids to their company outing held at the Canyon Cove Beach Club Resort in Nasugbu, Batangas two weeks ago. When they got home, I was surprised to see how the kids got so freaking tanned when they just stayed in the beach and pool for five hours. The kids are mentioning about swimming alternately on the sea and the pool so I was wondering how the resort is like and how far the pool is from the beach.
Aside from the fact that the resort is located somewhere in Nasugbu, Batangas, I had no idea about the Canyon Cove Resort until one of the telemarketers of marketing company name deleted handling the marketing for Canyon Cove Beach Resort sent me details of their current promo and when I asked her to send me photos of the resort, I got these amazing pictures. Click them to view in high resolution.
We were supposed to book a room or cottage at the Sigayan Bay Beach Resort but for very strange reasons, the contact persons at that resort refused to answer our calls and text messages (perhaps their inner psychics sensed we’re serials killers and they won’t allow us within their shores) so we just booked one of the biggest rooms at Triple G Beach resort.
Riding a regular passenger jeep which we contracted from one of my wife’s relatives living nearby, we left our meeting place in Tagaytay at 10:30 in the morning of March 28. Two hours and a half later, everyone (especially the most excited ones who didn’t had breakfast before leaving) was so hungry so we decided to stop at the random space along the road for lunch. The random space happened to be under a cotton tree held captive by political posters of, what else, politicians.
After lunch, we were back on the road (like we really left the road) to find the beach resort. One more hour, a rough road and fifteen annoyed and impatient souls later, we passed by a public cemetery and reach what seemed to be a dead end. Someone had to convince himself/herself that we were lost and badly needed to ask for directions. Thankfully, an almost willing volunteer told us we’re more that one kilometer past our destination so we had to go back and eat more dirt. Finally we found what we were looking for.
Thanks to the resorts miniature sign board, we already saw that cluster of signboards but still had to eat dirt because Triple G’s was just too small to be noticed. So here’s a note – if you’ll come here in the near future, look for the Sitio Magalang sign. That will lead you to a cluster of beach resorts in Laiya, San Juan, Batangas.
The entry road to Triple G beach resort is very very narrow. You’ll have to maneuver your jeep carefully and don’t let your ears outside the windows if you don’t want them amputated.
That narrow road will lead to the Triple G beach resorts entrance (the photo was taken from the exit side)
Which will lead you to the rooms here…
Which will lead you to the rooms here…
and here…
to here…
and finally, to here.
There already were too many people to think that we’ve only been here a week before holy week. Imagine how much more people would be here during the holy week.
We’ve been planning this family outing since March of this year and you can’t imagine how many times we had everyone’s agreement on certain resorts only to be discarded later on due to conflicts which ranges from allocated budget, location and schedule. Even the original number of attendees were dropped to 8 (excluding our little Tifa) because of their own personal reasons. But it was thanks to random bloggers that my wife had stumbled upon during her eternal search for the perfect location that we were able to find this place and finally had everyone’s agreement. Special thanks to Rajavoom who took the liberty of navigating us through text messages on our way to Calayo. (Go pester him on his blog, Prosti).
What’s so exciting about the beach is the fact that, because it’s undeveloped and un-commercialized, you don’t have to rub elbows with strangers either while swimming or simply rolling you naked self on the fine grains of sand along the shore. The only drawback is that you can’t find a closed cottage, a room or a hostel to leave your things while your swimming or sleeping. But you could find open cottages that you could rent for Php500 for a day or Php1,000 overnight. Or maybe you could get it for less depending on your skills in haggling. Just don’t leave your important things unattended or just have someone to watch over your things while your swimming or burying yourselves under the sands. There’s also a sari-sari store nearby where you could buy Coca-cola products, gas for your kerosene lamps (if you have) or for your coal grill and bonfires. I can’t remember if there were ice cubes being sold there so you had to buy before you go or stop by along the sari-sari stores along Nasugbu proper. We bought our ice tubes drinks from a store near Jollibee Nasugbu.
The waves on the center shore carry small pieces of woods which probably came from the bonfires lit during the nights which were carried away by the wind to the water. Also, about 3 feet deep, you could still see grains of sands floating with the water because of the strong waves disturbing the surface underneath. But if you would go to the far ends of the beach where the water is more calm, you could see the sand clearly from the water surface.
There were white sands, according to the residents, on the other side of the beach which they call Calayong Munti. Unfortunately, we weren’t able to reach that part because in order to reach that, you would need to swim or take a boat because the water half-way is deep. We can’t swim, can’t afford a boat (haha) and there weren’t anything you could cling upon on the wall of rocks bridging the two area so we just contented ourselves taking photos of what could have been white sands from a far.
There were reported sighting of Butanding or whale sharks in the coasts of Calayo but the last reported sighting was way back in March 2009. According to the residents, the whale sharks probably started leaving the place when people starts knowing about the beach.
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