marinegirl

Last August I took this photo of a petrol station on Siquijor and posted it to my flickr account. I recently received the following comment from Ablejon, updating me on the current petrol situation.

Technically speaking, we do still sell petrol with soft drinks bottles like Pepsi and Coke. But now, we have 2 gasoline refilling stations in the island with Petron; 1 in Nonoc, Larena and 1 in Pangi, Siquijor.

He also pointed me towards the Pangi Gasoline Station website.

I was fortunate enough to see the Pangi Station for myself this week as I was back on Siquijor for more fish counting, but sadly didn’t get the opportunity to top up there. We stayed at a little place called The Norwegian Dream Beach Resort just up the road. The staff were incredibly helpful, making sure there was a big pot of brewed coffee on the table for breakfast every morning, and even went as far as arranging some Norwegian weather for us. For four days we shivered in the rain, were thrown around on the surface in waves bigger than our little boat and underwater by unpredictable currents. One day it was so bad our boat couldn’t make it back to the Norwegian Dream, so Rich and I had to try and catch a jeepney back across the island in our wetsuits! I was cold and had had enough, so decided to end the trip a day early and come back to Dumaguete first thing Sunday morning. We woke up to the first blue sky all week and a flat sea - aaaargh!