Ah my forum name in there! I went to Apo island for scuba-ingthing many times, Jim. I believe "Apo" means grandson.
The beaches are OK. Holy week is when the mambabarangs make their potions and spells, next time your near Silliman they have a small witchcraft museum dedicated to witchcraft on isla del fuego.
Wife calls them wok woks. There's a few near me, there's on who walks past my house She looks like a walking dead.
I just put two words together to make my name, Jim. Shark was easy as cuttlefish (my favourite sea creature) wouldn't have been easy to join together with apo.
Some photos for context: Taken in 2008 on an old Point and shoot camera. Dumaguete: Siqijor: Apo Island (on the horizon):
That beach on siquijor, is it sandugan just up from Larena, Dumaguete looks like it did in the 1990's long before development, father tropa spaceship 2000 days.