... and thriving mangroves. Legend has it that when the Visayan Islands were still part of the Shri-Bishaya Sultanate, there lived a woman named Anini, the beautiful daughter of a Malayan chieftain in the southernmost tip of Hamtic, the original name of the province of Antique.
Nogas, a handsome slave and farmer’s son with the body of a warrior, fell madly in love with Anini. Theirs was a forbidden love affair, for Anini belongs to the maharlikas, the royalty, while Nogas is a descendant of the uripons, or slaves.
And so the love affair ended in a tragedy – Nogas was killed and his body thrown into the sea, where an island appeared and was named after him while Anini died out of loneliness and was buried along the rocky seashore facing the island that was once her lover. 🌳🌸🌊🌅
