Saturday we had the opportunity to go to Paradise Island Beach on Samal Island, about a 5 minute boat ride across the Davao Gulf harbor from the Davao City Boat Ferry landing. What a beautiful place. It has white sandy beaches. The kids had a great time playing in the sand and sea.
Ben playing with two new filipino friends
Kids playing in the water
Kurt and Beth enjoying baku, a young coconut
Kids with new friends playing in the sand
Our family enjoying our day at the beach
A few posts ago I talked about the marang fruit. Here is a picture of what the inside looks like. No one in our family really likes the taste too much though. They have a particular smell too. Maybe this is one of those tastes that just have to grow on you.
There are a lot of new fruits for us here in the Philippines. As far as new fruits go, so far we have tried the mangostein, the Jackfruit, Pomelo, Lansones, and some others that we forgot the names of. We have yet to try the durian - we were advised to wait for someone more experienced to guide us through those "waters". We will keep you posted...
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Friday I went to a traditional market. What an experience. Lots of fresh fruits, vegtebles, dried fish, fresh fish, freshly butchered hog being cut to order right there at the stand, chicken, spices...it was an interesting and eye-opening experience. We will definitely be shopping at the market often.
Rice and pots at the market
Dried fish at the market
A boy helping his mother sell at the market
This is a marang fruit and we just tried it for the first time tonight. It is about 6 inches in size (see 6 inch ruler in photo), roughly round, and has a pliant outer skin. Once through the outer skin, the edible insides consists of slippery, whitish balls about the size of large grapes. The taste is sweet, but not overly so and there are seeds inside each of the "grape-like" balls that are about the size of a peanut. Once broken into, the fruit has to be eaten within a few hours or else it will go bad. At the market, each of these costs about 25 pesos which is the equivalent of 50 cents US.
