Tagaytay/Lake Taal Flyover
Click above for the drone video. Click here for the image gallery.
Our first drone trip last January was cut short due to the Phantom 4 drone malfunctioning in Coron, Palawan. Words cannot express my disappointment but the silver lining is that we now have a reason to return!
For this trip, we traveled north to Tagaytay to the first restaurant we dined at in February of 2016, the Taalena:
Good food, ambiance, open air. We like to sit at the outside tables. This is one of the few places in the Philippines where you can get really cool breezes.
That dish above is called Sinigang_na_hipon. A soup made with hipon (shrimp), tamarind, tomato, okra, string bean, kangkong (swamp cabbage). I passed this time but will try it next time, in the spirit of Anthony Bourdain and learning new culture. For now, I had the pork & chicken adobo with garlic rice.
Joelet got permission from the management to fly the drone out back, in the area typically used for weddings, receptions, etc. She is a very lovely and capable assistant, btw:
Now here is a thing about this spot. It sits at the literal edge of a cliff, overlooking the coast below. So I send the drone up 30 feet (10 meters), according to the DJI app on the iPad, from the takeoff spot but we are actually hundreds of feet above ground, below. For example:
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| Town of Talisay |
I did not dare take it below zero for fear that the drone would think it landed and fall to its destruction.
I love this view of Lake Taal. In the center is an island. On the right is a dormant volcano, looks like a mountain with its top blown off at an angle:
A stop at the Robinsons Market in town to see if they had ginger ale. They did, the Jamaican variety which is a lot more ginger-y than the stuff sold in the U.S.
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