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Shore Breaks 3 Skim-boarding Competition Successfully Kicked Off
The annual skim-boarding competition and the biggest skim-boarding tournament in Northern Mindanao dubbed as SHORE-BREAKS presented by Apple Tree Resort and Hotel successfully kicked off last May 20-21, 2017 at the Shore-line of the said Resort Hotel creating an all-out celebration of the board-sports action in the region.
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Higalaay Festival Cagayan De Oros Own Festival Character
Every August, the City of Cagayan de Oro transforms into an interesting broadway of festivity filled with series of entertainments, lively and exciting events both civic and cultural, social and traditional, integrated together to form into core events as official activities for the month-long festival celebration of the city called the Higalaay Festival.
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Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Spotted In Opol Misamis Oriental
An uncommon marine life visited the shoreline of Opol (within Roan Beach Resort and Apple Tree Resort and Hotel) approximately 3:00 in the afternoon today. The sighting was then reported to the nearest DENR office and made an action by the MENRO (Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Officer) of the Municipality.
Upon reaching the information delivered to me by Allan Quisa-ot, one of my colleagues, i immediately made a quick check of the uncommon sighting revealed then after as a Turtle. The carapace of this turtle has an olive-colored, rounded and relatively heart-shaped, while the u ... -
Cagayan De Oro Environment Office Uses Worms In Dumpsite Rehabilitation
The Cagayan de Oro City Local Environment and Natural Resources Office (Clenro) is turning to worms, "aliwate," or "wati" in the local dialect, to help rehabilitate the old dump site at Zayas, Carmen village.
Clenro chief Edwin Dael said the City Government bought one and a half kilo of African night crawlers from the Manresa farm which were then released to the old landfill on Friday, June 30, to help the garbage composting process.
Dael said, according to research, African night crawlers feed on decomposing matter.
African worms feed on mostly anything, like fruit and vegetable wast ... -
Medinas Marine Ecosystem All Shored Up
Volunteer scuba divers from Metro Pacific Investment Corp. took the lead in the continuing underwater cleanup of Duka Reef Marine Protected Area in Medina, Misamis Oriental as part of the Shore It Up program.
Located across Duka Bay Resort in Gingoog Bay, Duka Reef is a 30-hectare fishery reserve, which takes pride in its coral research, enhancement and protection measures.
The reef's live colorful corals and fish are the main attraction of the village, considered as the tourism capital of Misamis Oriental since 2006.
A simultaneous solid waste cleanup along the seven-kilometer stretc ... -
Sagpulon Falls Jasaans Grandest Wonder
Among the frequent attractions situated in the Municipality of Jasaan, one grand wonder can be found in Barangay San Isidro known by the locals as the Sagpulon Falls.
Sagpulon Falls situated at Barangay San Isidro, approximately 6.5 kilometers from the highway of Jasaan, and about 31-kilometer east of Cagayan de Oro City, is a natural waterfall with a towering elevation of approximately 150 feet cascading on a long vertical drop on a mossy wall embraced by the sprouting waters. Sagpulon Falls can be categorized into a Ribbon Waterfall and may somehow evolved and/or formed as a Horsetail Wat ...