Balincaguin Conservancy Grotto

Thank you for your responses for the 2nd Cacupangan Cave Cleanup Campaign (CCCC); we have received confirmed participation from the all organizations invited. They have pledged the participants and contributions as follows:

Organization (pax) – additional contributions

LGU-Mabini (10 pax) – logistics of transportation and lunch
CENRO-Alaminos (10 pax) – tarpaulin banner
Sual Power Station-Mountaineering Club (10 pax)
Rotary Club of Urdaneta East

Big Commotion on the Mabini Bridge!!

First it was a man riding his bicycle, then a woman walking with her two teenage boys. Next, a man with his three-wheeled motorcycle/taxi (locally called a tricycle) pulled over to take a look. He left his passengers waiting while he went to investigate. Women who were doing their laundry by the river’s edge stopped doing their chores and walked a little closer to have a better view. Their children swimming nearby stopped their games and followed their mothers. Finally, the driver of the big truck carrying tons of rice parked so close to the edge of the bridge that I though he was going to drop his cargo down in the water.

The maritime school of Pangasinan Merchant Marine Academy (Perez Blvd., Dagupan City) conducted a one-day "Spelunking Tour" in Cacupangan Caves Resort, Mabini, Pangasinan.

It was participated by fifty one (51) students and six faculty members from the HRM and Tourism Departments respectively.

In SoCalGrotto's The Explorer, July 2009, the caption is:

Cover: Daniel Veelik & Betty Farfan (in Cacupangan Cave, Mabini, Pangasinan, Philippines) looking over Kidd Suleta during his first visit to a cave. Kidd is 8 years old and blind since birth.

Photo by: Jerry Rendon

Gallery photos...

15 July 2009 – A networking website, www.rcc-r1.org, has been launched to promote interaction among the members of DENR-Region 1’s Regional Cave Committee (RCC). This website will provide an interactive platform for the RCC members to share and exchange ideas. The public can use the website to learn about caves in Region 1 and to report new cave needing assessments.