#Ulog Ep. 2 Simple Joys of Life - Beautiful Sunday
My Share for #BeautifulSunday initiated by @ace108
Also my share for @surpassinggoogle's #ulog celebrating you and life.
Early morning in the heart of Burnham Park in the Philippines is a man made lake that attracts tourist. At only four feet deep the lake involves boating which is one of the recreations in this park. Come and join me today on a simple boat ride at Burnham Lake.
Simple Joys of Life
None of us knew how to row a boat and it was up to me to be the captain. I said, "How hard could it be? I just need to row the paddle just like how I see in the movies."
The guy pushed our boat away from the dock and I was rowing like crazy. I was like we were not moving and the boat is just turning.
My passengers were laughing and I was getting embarrassed. I felt the people were looking at us as we spun around the water and not getting anywhere. I said, "Ok let's try this one more time.
Slowly I pulled up both paddles and at the same time slowly pushed down the water and pulled away. To my surprise we were moving and the family cheered. The only problem was were going backwards with the tail first of our mermaid boat. I could not see where I was going . My family was doing the navigation where to go and somehow it was good enough.
After minutes I was getting the hang of it and I was rowing like a pro. We have a short clip if you would like to see how captain watersnake101 does it like a professional lol.
Minutes passed and we were having so much fun. The sun was getting high and getting a bit warm. We headed out to stop for a while in a shaded area in the water.
Here is the crew of our mermaid boat and we hanged around this shaded area of the lake for a while. Also my arms were getting tired after a couple of rounds around the lake.
While resting and enjoying the view other people were starting to join in. We saw this pedal powered swan and we all went like, " How come we did not get a swan which looks fun and no need to paddle." We wanted to board the boat and steal the swan and swap it with our paddle powered boat.
I bet my little @bearkid wanted the Winnie the Pooh boat. We did not know that there were a lot of boat owners and with different designs.
Here is a good spot in case boating is not for you and would just like to enjoy the view.
The weather here is cooler and you could see steam fog coming up from the water in this beautiful morning.
Here I am again still enjoying myself and we do a couple more rounds. We even had some close encounter collision course with some boats. Good thing your captain knew how to turn and paddled our way safely.
More parked boats with monster and dinosaur designs. More people were starting to join in the fun and the lake was starting to be filled with boats.
I wonder how it would feel like to row in a real lake with mountains on the back ground. I would love to go fishing out in a great big lake some day. I could spend the whole afternoon there. Here there are no big fishes although there are tiny ones which we saw swimming around.
This boat with seven passengers looks precarious as you could see water is almost reaching the edge of the boat. I'm not sure if they thought about it but it's just four feet, still it's not worth it getting soaked.
After 30 minutes we headed back and I felt we were satisfied already. We could have stayed longer but we were getting hungry as we have not had breakfast yet. Original plan was to grab breakfast first but we got taken over by the offer that was too good to pass. Also if we spent the whole morning here we would miss to see the other sights on the park.
It may not be extravagant or exotic but we had a great time simple joys of life such as this is priceless. Especially if you are around the people that you love.
Hope you had fun with us today on a simple yet enjoyable morning.
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That's why I love weekend very much.Looks like you had enjoyed a lot. Thanks for sharing your moments with us.
Weekends are the best leaving work behind even for just a moment.
Beautiful place ..& beautiful photography
Hey thanks for checking.
Hola @watersnake101, que risa al leer que remarías como lo ves en las películas... Gracias por compartir muy lindo lugar me dio serenidad.Gracias gracias gracias. Te ganaste un resteem
Haha I learn a lot from movies. I often imagine we are all in a movie set and we are the stars.
I am not sure being four feet. I think it is four meters. They dug this up before to free it from accumulated mud and murk from a previous typhoon. I took photos of it and I am pretty sure it is not just 4 feet deep. I do not know though why they don't offer life jackets and there is no lifeguard so I think it is indeed four feet. It's an itch at the back of my mind that I can't get rid of.
I don't know how to row a boat, too haha! I have been here all my life and I have been in a boat for one or two times. I'm really missing out haha!
Seriously? My wife asked the guy if they had any life jackets. The guy jokingly said, "you don't need it mam it's only four feet." It it is four meters then we have a problem lol. Anyways dude it's easy did you watch my video how I did it like a pro hahaha.
Haha! It looks easy enough.
Very nice ☺☺
Thank you 😊
Your most of welcome
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The joy of life - beautiful to US when all the time of the people of beautiful takes
Yes simple things sometimes means alot. Thanks for checking 😊
Looks like a beautiful and peaceful place!
It is quite a relaxing place just rowing along and having fun.
Que susto remar "como loco".jahajahajahajahaj( risas)
Thanks I guess I would need to work on my Spanish 😊
the healthiest way of living is to enjoy our lives most of the time..
I agree as much as we can we only live once.
Emazing your life
I like your life
Enjoy and rileks
Thanks all life is beautiful we just need to look for it.
yes my friend