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Our beautiful child was born on 25th November healthy, happy and all OK. Here she is…

Angel Lorraine Cantoba Healy

So tiny

Rowena, Angel and me

Angel’s Angel Nurses. They don’t muck around here

The proud Tatai (Dad in Tagalog)

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OK I know this doesn’t look like an SEO conference but it was!! We had our gun SEO team fly in to Boracay from around the Philippines and the partners from Australia, Japan, England and China for a week of serious strategy and fun. Why pay for an expensive conference centre in a big smoking city when you can get out there in nature with WIMAX, relax and also work? Yesterday we were literally in a river spa with the waterproof ToughBook discussing a new High Value Linking Strategy we’ve been working on for a year which is now at fruition. Business should be fun and healthy…………..

We finally moved into the new house in Boracay today…pics tell a 1000 words……..Doing a lot of commuting between the offices and conferences but its worth it when we get home.

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Well I left Byron Bay on January 15th 2009 for what I expected to be 5-6 week trip across Asia working with our youth venture capital fund www.YSEI.org and this year’s 10 fellows. I started out in Malaysia and have been working with projects in Thailand (way up north near the Laos border), Sarawak and the Philippines (north and south).

5 weeks has turned into 5 months and I’m now in the Southern Philippines, on a small island, in the middle of a big typhoon with no power and a flood roaring past the front door. I’ve got two broken ribs from a little surfing mishap on a big wave but otherwise in one piece and rolling. These things happen.

New site in our folio BoracayBeachRealEstate.com.

Naturally being a site about buying real estate in Boracay

Boracay is fast becoming a world renown resort destination island, and with the famous White Beach being ranked in the top 10 beaches in the world for the last 15 years, the island is receiving more and more local and international tourists from every part of the globe every year.

As well as the long standing 4 and 5 star resorts plus with the recent addition of the Internationally accredited Shangri-La Hotel, Boracay is set to have Marriot International hotel by 2010, plus the Sheridan and talk of other famous branded hotels, all adding to the investment of the island and the Philippines.

We were out surfing last week and the little bro was on the esky lid (boogy board) with his legs dangling (and I do mean dangling as he’s 6 foot 4.).

We’ve headed into shore and started walking back to the car when we saw a bunch of people at the end of the beach (Cosy Corner, Byron Bay).

There was Ben, a mate of ours, with a huge shark bite out of his board. See the whole Byron Bay Sharks story here.

The FearBeneath.com had this to say ……. “BYRON BAY, AUSTRALIA

Well we’ve been having a ball whitewater rafting in the Philippines last week. Frankly it was a blast. We rode a grade 4 rapid in Mindanao. Southern Philppines just after a huge storm.

Whitewater rapids are rated on a scale of one through six, indicating the difficulty of each rapid at “normal” water level. The scale is a subjective one. While rapids are individually classed, rivers are given an overall classification that takes the whole stretch of river into account. As an example, the wilderness section of the Cagayan de Oro River has lots of Class IV rapids, but the overall classification is Class III and III+, indicating that a rafter with strong Class III skills would find the challenges OK. We went with the top crew from Rafting Cagayan De Oro (www.RaftingCDO.com)

Well it was like a dolphin conference at our local wave - Wategos in Byron Bay  this morning. We had over 50 dolphins swimming and surfing with us which was just truly awesome.

On almost any given day there are wild dolphins swimming in the waters that surround Cape Byron where you can encounter them closely in their natural habitat.

I use the Cape Byron walking track to get an great look at the waters below the cliffs where the dolphins can be found usually in small pods of 10-20 animals