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Rota Slideshow
Rota
Travel Blogs from Rota, Northern Mariana Isl.
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At Scottys
There is a reason nobody has heard of Rota. There is no tourism here at all! There isn't a lot of beach and most places the sea is hard to get in and out of. But it is beautiful and untouched for the most part. Very clean, no garbage on the side of the ...
Diving the Shoun Maru
... be at the dive shop by 8:30. We had some Filipino breakfast combinations. We were learning more and more how friendly everyone is in Rota. Every customer who came in greeted us, and some asked us where we were from and how was our stay. The first dive ...
Sightseeing in Rota
... not-very-noteworthy lunch. Now it was time for the sightseeing we had napped through the previous day. First, we went to the Rota Chamorro Cave Museum. This is a natural cave that was first used by the native Chamorros for shelter and later used by ...
Settling In
... deal. They renovated it just a few years ago and built an annex next door. The main building I think is the tallest building in Rota at four stories. We stayed in the annex. The room was clean. Everything worked. The ocean view was nice. It was a little ...
Diving the Senhanom Cave
For the second dive, we dove the Senhanom Cave on the southwest tip of Wedding Cake Point. The boat took us in pretty close to the cliff face. We rolled in and went down to the entrance at about 30-40'. It was a pretty open cave. The entrance was almost ...
Hanging out with Scotty
This is the view from Scotty's place. That is wedding cake point, the southwest point of the ...
Flying to Rota
... . It was a 17-passenger prop plane. It took awhile to get our luggage, inexplicably. The map pin is at the Rota International Airport. It's international because of the regular flight to Guam and a recent weekly charter to different parts of Japan. We ...
Ecological Atonement
... met Diana at the Full Moon Hash a couple of weeks previous. She is living with her sister Julie, a Fish and Wildlife officer on Rota. Nash was staying with them. We also met Nash on the same Hash. Nash is an ecology grad student doing field research on ...
First Dives in Rota
... the owners of Sirena Marine Services (map pin). It's an excellent operation that you can check out at www.diverota.com. Dive Rota is no longer. The owner decided just to captain boats and occasionally be a dive master and commercial diver for hire. He ...
An Amazing Meal
... until after the event. Suka had heard that Rota had great crab. The coconut crab is all through the islands, but on Rota, it eats almost exclusively coconuts and coconut leaves (thus, its name). We eventually found out that coconut crabs aren't in ...
Japanese cannons around Rota
There are a few old japanese cannons around Rota and you can go in caves around ...
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