We call the island Isla del Fuego, an island in the middle of East Luzon Sea. Fishermen from the mainland like me always saw flaming flying entities roaming in the forest near the edge of the beach were various boats landed to secure water from the island's spring lagoon.
From the account of Herbert Tuplano of Catanduanes.
One night while we stay at the island before returning home, the veteran fisherman in our boat invited us to set traps at the island's lagoon. He said the bulalacao bird, the mythological phoenix bird can be captured alive. We believed in him because he told us that the owner of our fishing boat had captured one of them in the same island that we landed.
The trap is a net set above the lagoon. It was wide covering almost a pool-size lagoon. He told us that an American collector wanted to buy this kind of species with great value.
Later at midnight we saw two flaming flyers heading to the lagoon. We waited as they circled above it. Then they dive on the water. To our delight they were caught in the net and got entangled. They can't burn the abaca hemp net because we soak them in water.
We cut the rope that hold the net and it plunge on the lagoon together with the birds.
When we raise the net we saw the former flaming birds now looks like an ordinary wild chickens; shivered in cold water.
We cage them inside the empty metal oil drum and loaded it in our boat.
But before we could left the island, a gale occurred and waves pounded our boat near the beach. All our cargoes were thrown violently at sea. So as with the drum that contain the two phoenix birds.
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