The boat owners are a mixed group, Anque said. “You get really good ones on some days and you also get the not-so-good ones,” he chuckled.
Personnel from the Bureau of Customs, or the Bureau of Immigration, periodically visit the area to check up on the status of guests in their boats, Anque said. Graphic artist Diane Pool, 71, is among the boat owners who chose to stay and live in Tambobo. She and husband Bill, a forensic geologist, sailed into the cove 20 years ago.
Since her formal classes have been suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic, Diane would spend time with the children in the community, helping them learn how to make graphic designs on the computer, and to improve their reading, writing and other life skills. Lovingly built with the Pools’ own hands beginning in 1975 in California, Pilar has a two-cylinder engine, which runs an average of 24 hours on 102 liters of fuel. This takes them about 100 nautical miles, at a speed of five knots . It has berths for four people, a toilet and bath, a galley with a sink, an oven, a stove fueled by wood, a canning machine and 340 liters of water that could last a month.
“The sound of children playing is also very refreshing; while I can also hear the women busily talking and sweeping their yards with broomsticks,” she added.
Hello. Nice photo. But not recent.