Here and There
Kayaking means ‘boating’
By Gerry Garcia
A world-CLASS wharf for Lingayen is seen as preferable to an international airport as it could be a convenient jump-off point to tourist destinations, like Sual, Alaminos City, and the Ilocos. After all, the international airport is better located in the city as it’s the home of the famous Hundred Islands which, being now in the custody of the city government, is starting to draw more visitors.
The La Union-based Philippine Ports Authority (PPA), which had already surveyed and evaluated the proposed site of the port, said the port will be built along the historic Limahong Channel in Domalandan and the city’s tourist-drawing potentials are further enhanced.
And since the area is serving as gate for residents coming from the various land-locked barangays, the project is perfectly in line with Lingayen’s bid for citihood.
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Some readers of the Punch issue of last week have been left scratching their heads of the meaning of one word in the heading “Go kayaking around 100 Islands”. The word “kayaking” intended to signify another New Zealand – inspired tourism project is merely a corruption of the common English expression “boating”. The Eskimos in Alaska have a kind of boat they call “kayak” — a one-man canoe of light wooden framework covered withseal skin. The kayaking program had been turned over last week to the Hundred Islands Eco-Tours association (HEITA), a community-based organization involved in the city’s tourist industry. Kayaking complements the bird-watching and snorkeling activities around the islands, HEITA says.
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With the overwhelming number of motorcycles invading our roads and highways in the province, it’s about time the LTO and allied road authorities laid down a program of traffic restructuring, like widening our highways with additional outer lanes to accommodate bikes and tricycles, especially, the latter have become notorious in hampering or dragging down speed in our heavily traveled highways, especially when most of our open roads are as narrow and limited as the minds of our road-builders.
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