Sante Fe is a small fishing village located on the southeast coast of Bantayan Island, a place time seemed to have momentarily forgotten. The beaches are beautiful and unspoilt, and perhaps because it was low season, the only other life on the shores were fisher folk and stray dogs. The beach at dusk was surreal. Everything turned a deep blue, you could barely make out the horizon. One evening, as we walked the stretch of the beach, there was a dark rain cloud moving towards us which only added drama to the sky.
Giant Clams, Giant Statement!
Camiguin Island, Philippines, Asia
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Ecotourism is an exotic word in the Philippines, and it is a slow conversion for someone to give up a livelihood of spearing fish and instead take tourists to look at the very same fish and to let them slip away into the coral.
It is even more difficult to convince people to stop eating giant clams and using their giant shells as baptismal fonts.
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