Post #141727 by Rattiki on Thu, Feb 17, 2005 2:29 AM

On 2005-02-16 02:16, cheekytiki wrote:
I'm not sure how it works in the Pilipines but if you are going to take stones from the Shoreline, be careful as in a lot of countries it is totally illegal as you are removing a natural sea defence.
Rounded stones can be bought at most stone suppliers,

Well laws in the Philippines are made to be broken as no one hardly regulates real crimes, i.e. murder, robbery and extortion. Generally even in murder cases it is considered a civil matter and an amount for the victims family is just paid (usually around $1000 U.S.) to secure your freedom. So at the very least $5-$10 to the land owner behind the shoreline would allow me take my fill of all the CHOICE stones I would want. Also outside of a big city such as Manila or Cebu there would be no such building supplies available, and with marble literally laying at my feet, even the locals would think I was nuts not to just use it.

The 3rd world is a very different place and more like it was here 100+ years ago. The well known tourist area of Puerto Galera is just inside the border of Mindoro Oriental (Eastern) with the frontier with Mindoro Occidental (Western) running right up the crest of a stunning, cloud shrouded mountain that backs ethereal Talipana Beach. That is where the road ends as it has not yet been built over the mountain to connect the circle around Mindoro (which is a very large and mostly untamed island). It is on the other side of the ridge I am looking to buy land ($5 a sq mtr) and settle, and it is still quite wild, though very accessible by boat. In a few years they believe the road will be finished as the cell phone companies want access to the cell towers up there. With that the area should boom! Meanwhile it is a stunning, untamed area covered in coconut palms and bananas back-dropped by steep, green mountains and fronted by beaches of white sand mixed with lots of smooth marble stones..... :wink:

[ Edited by: Rattiki on 2005-02-17 02:41 ]