Hinunangan Bay is the sheltered body of water that defines the municipality's eastern edge. Enclosed enough to keep seas calm for swimming and small boat travel, but open enough to catch the prevailing Pacific breezes, it is the geographic reason the town exists where it does.
Fishing boats work the bay from before dawn, and the early morning scene along the waterfront — outriggers heading out, the smell of diesel and salt, vendors setting up — is worth watching. The bay produces the local catch that defines the town's daily meals: various reef fish, squid, and shellfish. For anyone arriving from the mountainous interior of Southern Leyte, the bay is an immediate reminder that this is, first and foremost, a maritime community.