On our last day, the sun finally shined at Pagudpud. Locals and tourists at last got the chance to apply their sunblocks, wear their colorful and sexy swimsuits, don their snorkeling masks and enjoy the creamy sands and blue waters of Saud Beach.
People flocked the shoreline and tourists snapped away with their cameras. The waves were still strong but the kids were enormously enjoying it’s crests as it slammed the
Pagudpud is composed of sixteen towns, Saud being one of them, and is considered a first class municipality mainly due to its income via tourism. It is bound by the town of Bangui on the south and the Cordillera Mountains on the east. Aside from tourism, farming and fishing are the main source of livelihood in the area.
Even with the sour weather of the previous day, we were still hoping we would glimpse a view of the sun rising through the creamy beach of Pagudpud’s Saud Beach. So we got up at five and immediately headed to the rocky portion of the shore for the requisite sunrise shoot.
Finally, time to hit the beach!
For dinner, we headed to Evangeline Beach Resort’s Emohruo Restobar. Researching for a good place to eat out in Pagudpud, this restaurant’s chicken curry keeps on popping up on Google, so we decided to try it out. The resto’s strange name as explained by one of the waiters is simply Our Home spelled backwards, quite creative if I must say.
The southern part of the Saud Cove in Pagudpud is really not what you’d call a prime spot when it comes to beaches. There are hardly any sand along the shoreline; all you’ll see are rough reef-like surfaces with massive 
This however is the perfect place for landscape photographers. The rough rocks acting as interesting foregrounds while the waves add dynamism to photographs. Wait for a golden sunrise or sunset and you’ll have a postcard-perfect picture.
It was noontime and the waves at Pagudpud was not letting up at all, more so, it seemed to be getting stronger and stronger. The weather was totally uncooperative with us beachbummers as the sky remained a constant gray with the 
This was not however a hindrance to the people who visited Saud that day hoping to have some good summer fun under the blue sky and green sea. Tourists and locals still lined the beach, massive waves, dreary skies, rain and all.
Having only Burger Machine hamburgers as dinner for the back breaking twelve-hour trip to Ilocos Norte, to say that we were hungry upon arriving at Pagudpud is an understatement. So the first order of the day after dropping
Restaurants fronting the Saud beach open at around eight in the morning, pretty late as we expect every bistro to be open by six. The first one to open was Terra Rika’s CasaBlanca Seaside Grille, so that’s where we headed.
