Just some extra photographs that I wanted to stick in. I took over 1,100 during the three week trip.
Below is a photograph of the road on the way to the station at Biyong. There are many kilometers of plumbing throughout the geothermal field. As far as I could tell there are several dozen wells that have been drilled to tap the steam over the years. The whole thing started with a well that was drilled in 1972. A monument of its location is in the PGI Compound. They hit steam at a depth of about 5000 feet. The typical wells in the field are less than 8000 feet deep.
Below is a photograph of the station at Joroan. It is actually two photographs stitched together vertically.
Below is a view across the road from where you begin the climb to the Joroan station. It is also two pictures stitched horizontally. The weather wasn't very good that day. The town of Joroan is around the bend on the left and down the road a kilometer or two. Nice town.
Below is the beginning of the climb to Joroan.
This is the view from the station. It was worth the climb when the weather was good. The weather finally cooperated and I took this the last day I visited the station just a couple of days before leaving Tiwi.
Below is a photograph taken the day that we set up the station at Lungib. With the fog/clouds/rain, and the large fern trees, it looked like someplace out of Jurassic Park.
Below is the station at Manibtib. This is also two photographs stitched horizontally. It was in the in the middle of a field of abaca plants.
Below was the view from the town of Matalibong which was a short hike from where the station was set up.
Below is one of the views along the path to the Matalibong station.
Before PGI came in the area around Tiwi was peppered with hot springs and pools of hot water. I guess you used to be able to buy rice that was cooked in some of the hot pools. Several resorts sprang up. This was one of them. Mendoza's Resort. We went here for lunch a lot because the food was good (cooked to order), and it was always near to where we were working around lunch time. Funny how it worked out that way. We went there for dinner quite a bit too. Anyway, once PGI started taking the water out of the ground the pools and springs dried up, so the business traffic sort of fell off. Now instead of hot springs and pools there is just a large swimming pool in the back. The grounds associated with the resort are rather extensive and very pretty.
Below is a photograph of the caretaker and a helper carrying the first load of equipment for installation at the Naga station. Here we're about to run out of rice field and head into the jungle.
This is a photograph of Zeus carrying a replacement DAS to the Naga station. It was about a 10-15 minute walk from the main road.
Below was the view from the Manitonito site. Apparently there are lots of insurgents in them thar hills.
Below is an unused steam well head that was right next to the Nagas station.
Below is the best photograph I got of Mayon volcano. This was late in the afternoon, and it was the only clear afternoon of the three weeks that I was there. "If only I had been there a couple of minutes sooner" -- the plume of smoke was colored pink by the setting sun.
This is a photograph of the airport in Osaka, Japan. The terminal goes in the direction of the photograph for just about as far as you can see. It also goes for just about as far as you can see in the other direction. Every time I've been there the place has been deserted. I'm not sure why it's so big. It was sort of an interesting contrast to the rest of the trip.
2018-02-08