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Sug-angThree Stones in tSug-ang

By ANGELINE VALENCIA
posted on August 3, 2008|5:00 a.m.

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oft tales of enchanted thoughts come calmly kissing the cove’s shoreline on a romantic rendezvous with sunrise and sunset along Tagbilaran Strait cuddling the mysterious union of three large rocks forming an oversized sug-angan.
Old folks appeased its constant mystery with folklores
on giants cooking food on the oversized stone stove or cooking tripod.
But its mystery stretched to the present time as how the
three large rough-edged rocks took its form resting on a larger mass of rock islet standing above sea level.
In fact, the seal of Barangay Poblacion 1 carries the emblem of the rock formation as the large
stove-like structure serves as informal landmark or folks to point at the seaside community along
V.P. Inting Ave. (then Burgos St.) since time immemorial- -a landmark even older than the
names of the streets.
Folks coined the slang, Sug-ang, to refer to the place after the term, sug-angan, the vernacular
for traditional stove as the rock formation takes the shape of a giant traditional cooking tripod.
Bringing irony to the real-life furnace heat of a sug-angan, the placid seawater cradles the
amazing rock formation that folks dubbed as the three stones, an even understatement of its size.
Mesmerized by the scenery, especially with less exploitation in the old days, picnic buddies from
the rural towns used to frequent the place as their favorite stop-over.
But that was the good old days. New inhabitants in the area collected pebbles from the floor of
the rock formation which they used as filling materials to reclaim an area in the seawaters where they built their houses on. This led to the decrease in height of the base rock supporting the three large rocks that form the traditional stove-like structure, the only of its kind in Bohol and even in Central Visayas.
In fact, “three stonian” families living nearby held beauty pageants in the past to raise funds for
the preservation of its natural form by sprucing up its floor with pebbles to sustain its height which was actually just a way of replacing what the others took from it.
As if fleeing with the shape of the clouds above, its sentimental flare in the hearts of the picnic
buddies faded with time when old folks weregone.
A man-made giant pan may complete the Sug-ang concept to tempt tourists for a cruise, an
alternative to the river cruise in Loboc and Loay, with the beguiling seaside panorama that needs to be developed to complement it.
The mountain range of Dauis at the eastern side, the causeway stretching to Panglao Island
from Tagbilaran City at the western side and the thin land mass at the eastern side also reaching out to Dauis from another point trace the circle around the seawater cradling the amazing rock formation.
That forms the landscape by the cove that tailors Tagbilaran Strait with calm seawater inviting
sports adventure-lovers for fun boat-rowing, canoeing or kayaking, and simply swimming. It can be a conducive venue for water sportsfest as the land mass around maintains the calmness of the waves in the area.
With its mystery and extraordinary form, the three stones in Sug-ang can stand at par the rock
formations nominated for the New7Wonders.
The rocks of Cappadocia, in Turkey near Göreme that eroded into hundreds of spectacular
pillars and minaret-like forms, now ranks 23rd in the search; while the Ayers Rock (Uluru) ranks 55th, one of Australia's most recognizable natural icons that has been the world-renowned sandstone formation standing 348 meters high above sea level with most of its bulk below the ground, and measures 9.4 kilometers in circumference, appearing to change color as the different light strikes it at different times of the day and year.
Europe’s Davolja Varos which name stands for "devil's town" forms a group of earth pyramids
in the Radan Mountains in the southern region of Serbia, ranks 45th.
In the current 26th place, the Flaming Cliffs in Gobi Desert in Mongolia, “in which important
fossil finds have been made. The area is most famous for yielding the first discovery of dinosaur eggs. Other finds in the area include specimens of Velociraptor. The rock gives off a glowing orange colour, hence the nickname”.
We also have the Halong Bay dubbed as the World’s Nature Heritage of Vietnam is in northern
Vietnam, 170 kilometers east of Hanoi. The bay is famous for its scenic rock formations where around 3,000 limestone islands cluster together in the East Sea of Halong Bay.
In Victoria’s south west coast from Torquay to Nelson, the majestic Twelve Apostles, along the
Great Ocean Road spans “the natural rock formations that rise above the sea, just east of Port Campbell” which are remnants of coastal limestone erosion in over ten millions years.
These are just few of the wonderful and amazing rock formations in different parts of the
world.
They mean one thing for Three Stonians- -a challenge to groom the amazing giant traditional
stone stove-like rock formation in Sug-ang to stand at par.
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