lakwatserangnanay: Sarangani Island, Davao Del SurMay to Rememberthe...

lakwatserangnanay: Sarangani Island, Davao Del SurMay to Remember
the...: Sarangani Island, Davao Del Sur May to Remember the wedding , the sun the islands, Sarangani, Balut & Laniban the beach, the wave...

Sarangani Island, Davao Del Sur

May to Remember
the wedding , the sun
the islands, Sarangani, Balut & Laniban
the beach, the waves, 
and the people

      Panes -Potestas

Wedding

         As a wedding coordinator, 

          this will be forever my accomplishment.

          It was such a stress free wedding, 

          and full of God's presence. 
          It was originally planned as a sunset wedding 
         when later it was realized 
         that sunrise is more ideal.

       I got 50 doz roses of assorted  colors for the big day. The challenge was to keep it lovely after a lot of freight handling and long day travel. Humid air worried me.I am hesitant to hydrate its petals since I do not know what will be the effect  of a deep well  water from a near sea shore on its blooming phase. All I did was pray, and ask for few rain drops from above.

       

At dawn of May 2, i started setting up the arranged flowers at the aisles and  God did really sprinkled it with His love.

         Keeping my little prayer as I rush myself checking everybody ready for sunrise pictorial, all I can hear is the waaws from the giggling flower girls excited about the wedding at the beach.

         During the wedding ceremony, our witnesses and entourage sit at the logs arranged in rows  by the groom the day before the wedding. What a perfect collaboration of our  imagination. No words from both of us, we just  drag anything around. Everything cropped up naturally in silence. One thing I'm sure of was we are both praying for the Big Day. 
(Mind you, those logs were sent from the last devastating typhoon Pablo.)

I owe God for the perfect shade of the sky to free our shots from light exposure.

He sent us  the perfect sea breeze as the ceremony was officiated.

 It was God's Perfect time for Aries and Marivic to be united as one in His Glory!

The islands

The three islands of Balut, Sarangani and Laniban  marked another contemporary history I can share to my fellow Mindanaowan.

Balut Island is the central municipality of Sarangani, Davao del Sur facing Celebes Sea. The island itself is a volcano. According to its people, there was no record and actual witness of eruption. Old folks believe that its crater is under the sea. As they recall, there where times when big tidal waves and sulfur fumes surrounds the air.

Sarangani Island (meaning: nearness to adjacent island).The home of  the Layang family, an Indonesian- Filipino descendants raised in peace and self giving values once own the vast land cultivated with coconuts ...,

the oldest wild pig in the land

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Laniban Island, conquered by the De Arce Family during the Spanish dominion in the Philippines and was allegedly  later sold to the Rivera family from General Santos City.

Estimated to have 2000 standing coconut trees, the old Layang, 83 years old , recalled that near the Light house in the island, a collection of stone or anything brought to the island by visitors are gathered there as gesture of respect to his late Indonesian father.It became the  grave for his parents that is still  apparent as I went around the island.

I do not know what is the legal basis of the current owner of Laniban Island holds on, but to the Layang family, I believe they were deprived of the opportunity to claim the island as their ancestral domain.

Laniban is exclusive to its tenants  and its owner. As I witnessed, 2 household around the island. The Layang family and its guests were allowed to land with the company of the great old man, LoLo.

The people

The people speak Indonesian, i am not sure if they understand me fluently in Visayan and Tagalog dialect. Children love to sing... indonesian songs and christian worship songs. Amazingly, they can sing "Pusong Bato" masterly.