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Day 3 Diving
Wreck Diving is not for Sissies! Our day starts out glaringly sunny and spectacularly beautiful...............I know I am beginning to sound like a broken record.....but, really, what more can you say when you are ...
Leaving Truk and heading home
This morning the Odyssey (our liveaboard) dropped us off on Truk at 8:00AM. We checked into one of the two hotels on the island for the day. I spent some time at the beach appreciating all of its beauty before my long trip home. We left our hotel at ...
Last day in Pohnpei
October 27, 2006 Today was Friday and the office put on a going away luncheon for us as we finally have a departure date of Tuesday. Oh well, the going away luncheon was a pot luck and with a lot of local foods including crab, lobster, ...
A day to see some more sites
October 28, 2006 Today was Saturday and we actually did more than work, although we actually did work too. It started out at 6:00 am at the Palm Terrace grocery store for a 5K run/walk fundraiser put on by a local Filipino community group. I ...
Pohnpei
... though and at least show people the flight hops as I thing they'll think that is interesting. My book (Micronesia, Neil M. Levy) says this about Pohnpei: Pohnpei is mysterious - tropical mountain rain-forests, mist-shrouded waterfalls, coastal ...
Life in the Chuukese (not so fast) Lane.
Wed. Jan. 20, 2010 @ 0815hrs..... No internet connection for 24 hours so no new communiques.........Phillipe (our new dive buddy from Montreal) is in IT Security so got him on the job working on the hotel router last eve.......now we all ...
Off to the islands
I left Manila at around 10pm something and reached Guam early morning. There I waited for my flight going to Chuuk, where I spent a year and a half teaching and enjoying island life. I met wonderful friends and had the best experience of my ...
Pohnpei
It's 7 PM and we are on the beautiful island of Pohnpei. The fire drill round our landing permission was finally cleared up this morning about 10:30 and we wasted no time heading out across 1000 miles of warm water. The weather sucked along our ...
Pohnpei housing
some sight seeing. We drove the road that goes around the island so I got to see a bit more than the town. I was able to get a better impression of the island, but still restricted to what we could see from the road. Once again, and to better ...
ughhhh!
This blog has been very frustrating. Whether it is the dial up connection I have, or the site itself, everything takes 5 times as long as I'm used to, including uploading the pictures. I'm just going to send this out so you can see it, but realize I'm ...
Trip to Pohnpei
In 2005 I went to Pohnpei to visit my family and I had a blast. Can't wait to go back ...
GUAM’S GLITTER GULCH & FSM'S NOSERVICE ATOLL
... of the things most superficially American, the most obvious being US currency. But that’s also used in FSM (Micronesia) and the Marshall Islands, too, which are technically independent, except in matters of defense, and full members of the ...
Arriving in Truk
We arrived in Truk in the middle of the night. When I say we, I mean all of the guests that would be spending the next week on the Truk Odyssey. The Truk Odyssey is a 132 foot live aboard dive boat. The crew picked us up in two vans and drove us to ...
Random thoughts and images
October 27, 2006 Before leaving Pohnpei, I wanted to take more pictures of just random images to share and remember. I took a lot in the grocery store to show that it wasn't so different from ours, but the fresh selections were smaller. I also ...
Day 2 Diving
At the crack of dawn......well, okay, 0900.............we are off bouncing across the waves in a 20-ish foot boat with twin 40 Yammies (that one's for you AJ!) and salt water spray drenching our newly sunscreened limbs. Wendy has ...
News from Yap
November 5, 2006 It is now practically the end of my trip and I am finally getting to a point of filling in for several days. I'll try my best to catch up. Yap is situated the furthest west in the FSM, and in fact is west of Guam. It is smaller ...
Updates from the island
So, today, Bill took me and Randy to two main attractions on the island - Nan Madol ruins and the Kepirohi waterfalls. Nan Madol is the site of ancient ruins mad of huge basalt logs. Know that basalt is rock! Somehow these logs were brought to ...
Arriving in Yap
The Yap International Airport consists of one runway in the middle of the jungle. After they opened the plane's door we walked across the runway to the customs agents who were in two little plywood boxes on the edge of the landing strip. I don't know ...
Something about the work
October 23, 2006 Thought I should mention how work is going. The client has been live on the software a week now and things are going very well. There is always some fine tuning needed, especially with the reports that can be generated, as well as ...
Diving holiday
We are back from 11 days travelling with 8 of those days in Chuuk (Truk) Lagoon. This was our 1st big dive trip for years and it was just wonderful. I had forgotten how beautiful the underwater can be. I don't have an underwater camera, ...
Pohnpei notes
Got off the plane yesterday and was immediately drenched in sweat from the humidity. It was actually hot, as well as humid. We went through the customs booth with no problems and met Bill who is the whole project manager. Bill is a very nice man, but ...
Day 1 Diving
This trip has been several years in the making and today we finally blew bubbles in Truk Lagoon. Woo-hoo! After a 30 minute bounce across the waves and once we were thoroughly drenched, past several islands south of our accommodations, we tied up to a ...
OMG!!!!
The main population center of Chuuk State is the Chuuk Lagoon, a large archipelago with mountainous islands surrounded by a string of islets on a barrier reef. As part of the colonial territory of the Caroline Islands, Truk was part of the ...
Blue Skies Prevail!
Our first day with no rain to speak of and a whiff of a breeze. 2 dives yesterday and 3 today with 2-3 planned for tomorrow. As Claudio pointed out....we have all winter to dry out our ears when we get home so we're 'makin' hay ...
Stop overs on the way to Palau
After a few hour layover on Guam (got to sit in the Continental Lounge, thanks to the girls Worldperks status), then we are off to Palau via ...
Snorkeling Day
David and I were able to go on a snorkeling excursion from The Village. The original plan was that we'd go to the island of Ant, which is described as a Corona commercial, complete with white beaches and palm trees. It is a 10 mile boat ride past the ...