Camarines Sur's Cable Park

Had a chance to visit the Provincial Capitol Complex during the annual Kaogma Festival held last week of May. Billed as "The World's Hottest Festival", this year's Kaogma was filled with activities, competition, parade, produce demo, local artists, singers, dancers, bands, trade fairs and the newly-installed Cable Park which features water sports, ramps, jet skis and hitech. For 120 pesos an hour (gadgets included), anyone can ride the wakeboard, do flips, aerial stunts, tricks and turns over the water. Foreigners and water sports enthusiasts were able to experience this latest attraction. The basic gear for wakeboarding: helmet, lifevest, loose shorts and wakeboard with bindings. (Note: Sorry for not being able to provide a better picture for this post. The digicam's batteries conked out. The next best thing: a view of the manmade lake and a lot of people's backside. If you look close enough, you might get to see the cables.)

More below...with excerpts from the Bicol Mail and the Philippine Daily Inquirer

The provincial government of Camarines Sur has opened Cable Park, the first LGU-owned and operated, and the second of its kind built in the Philippines. A Cable Park is a facility that allows watersports enthusiasts to do waterskiing and its three derivative extreme sports that included wakeboarding, wake skating and kneeboarding sans towing motorboat, instead a cable technology is used to to riders.
Relatively new, the cable technology for water skiing has been introduced in a 6-hectare cable park complex with a 4.5-hectare oval artificial lake around a mounted island. It involved an overhead cable suspended by specially designed pylons. The cables run clockwise around the lake and powered by a variable electric motor that generates speed of 20-65 kph.