Dampalitan Island

Dampalitan Island

Padre Burgos, Quezon

by Lakwatsero

Dampalitan Island

Dampalitan Island is part of one of the unspoiled island around Padre Burgos, Quezon that boasts a long stretch of white sand and a tropical ambiance. It promises a serene and relaxing beach experience away from the usual crowded and overdeveloped beach destinations in the Philippines. It has a hint of Anawangin and Nagsasa Cove’s of Zambales, the atmosphere with pine trees lining its sandy shores, as well as the typical tropical beach ambiance peppered with palm-trees and native nipa huts.

Dampalitan's island white sand

is this Anawangin or Nagsasa Cove?

Dampalitan Beach is around 10-15 minutes boat ride from the Tamarind Tree Resort. Another popular jump-off point for the beach is near Vista Playa Restaurant (where we really came from then go first Mag-Asawang Bato). If your group will gonna used commute way, upon arrival at Padre Burgos proper, you may ask some of the tricycle driver to take you to Vista Playa and from there you can find boats to rent. The rates really depends on your haggling skills, the number of persons in your group, and the number of islands you are going to visit. For our island-hopping, im happy to say that there was no haggling happen because it is part of our Padre Burgos Adventure, but as I confirm with Mang Uro, our boatman, some of the boatman can agree to take your group to 4 beaches for Php800 only. how cheap right?

locals of Dampalitan

Fees on this Island

As I saw the long stretch of white-sand of Dampalitan shores. I wasn’t really expecting anything grand on this side of Quezon except for the rock formations at Borawan Island, that you can view while your cruising towards to Dampalitan Island. The sun was up and low-tide when we got to the beach so we were able to cross to the mangroves adjacent to the main shore where we docked our boat. It has its own long stretch of pebbly shores, mangrove trees, and a backdrop of verdant bush on the other side of this Island.

Mangrove Area of Dampalitan

Long stretch shore line of Dampalitan

The island has a total of 10 cottages for rent and accommodates overnight visitors. It has no electricity but toilets and fresh water, and some soda's are available. Dampalitan Island for me is ideal for laid-back beach camping and family beach excursions. It's clear azure water, white-sand shores and laid-back atmosphere are the lasting memories I have of this beach. Even though we just stay for few hours, to have our lunch on this Island. I will gonna it's view, the white-sand and the nice and warm breeze of it's shore while the pine trees are waving maybe saying please do come back and stay for meanwhile.

bye....bye.... Dampalitan...

For our next and final destination of our Padre Burgos Adventure, it was Borawan Island, composed of two familiar places, Boracay and Palawan Islands.

Dampalitan Island Fees:

Entrance Fee: P20 (for Adult) P10 (for children)
Cottage Rental: Php300
Overnight Campers: Php35 per head
Fresh water: Php20 per container (as of now)
Caretaker: Mercy Ramos
Mobile: 0919-5306590

Mag-Asawang Bato Island

Mag-Asawang Bato Island
Padre Burgos, Quezon Province
February 27, 2010

By Lakwatsero

Bound with excitement to start our adventure, our first stop is at these two tiny rock islets jutting out of sealine off the coast of Padre Burgos. When we arrived at Vista Playa it is visible from the shore. Approximately 500 meters from the coast, locals call these boulders "Mag-Asawang Bato" (married rocks). But when me and my buddy Johari is at the island, we both thought, why this rocks were called Mag-Asawang Bato when literally they are separated rocks, weren't they should be called as "Hiwalay na Bato Island" instead, don't you think?. They should be closer if they're married, right?If your on the ground the actual distance between this two boulder rocks were almost 100 meters, so do you think they can keep the marriage alive by this distance?! I don't thinks so...hehehe..........

Mag-Asawang Bato Island

Our group was really lucky on that time, because we could actually docked and step on it and take some picture actually on the Island, because few of the tripper goes in here actually could not dock due to high tide time, because only during low tide, these rock islets can be reached by foot.

Upon stepping on it, you must be wearing slippers because it can cause you some severe cuts, due to some shells that been stocks and fossilized through the stones or maybe you could be found having a head injury because of its slippery stones, some of the stones have what we called "lumots". And some of this stones do still have a water flows, with some small snails and fishes around on it.

flowing sea water on its island

X-plorerboyz on Mag-Asawang Bato Island

hey jobari, wat's on your mind? hmmm....

found new friends "Wilhelm", of YABAG Org., & "Noel", free lance photographer

Hope this tree through the years could grew as tall as it could be....i realy dont know if this is like a Mangrove Tree but for me it is looks like a tree..

These rock islets definitely make the seascape here picturesque. As you can see below the father and the mother of this Island, hope when i will be back on this place, they could have kidz....hehehehe

The Father Boulder Rock

The Mother Boulder Rock