Days Inn Barrigada Guam Agana

... up and I climbed down maybe a 15 foot waterfall CAREFULLY to reach the top of Lower Sigua. Theres no backing down now! No way I was going back up that muddy hill and sawgrass and then down the rope cliff all over again. Only one way down. Time to man up! So looking down.. which is a little necessary to see where your jumping and what to clear did NOT help my confidence one bit! But I took the plunge and it was very worth it ...

... the day. The wreck dive visited an old American tanker that was sunk to help build up a manmade cliff wall but sunk outside of its proper position. It is really well preserved however my buddy ran low on air fairly quickly so this dive was cut a little short. Our drift dive however was almost 40 minutes and took us down to 70 feet. I spent about 10 minutes playing with a huge 4 foot Moray Eel that we found in a hole ...

So... no pictures on this one but I think its kind of a funny story so im gonna go ahead and post it. Saturday night, after the "Sigua Falls Hike Attempt", there was still night to be taken advantage of so we decided to further our adventure by buying Walmart out of camping stuff and heading down south to find a remote beach. With us were Fuller, Guzman ( cliff diving bellyflopper ) and another F22 maintenance guy from Alaska), myself, and someone who ...

Well, I made it back to Denver with little problems in spite of the missing forms of identification. Fortunately the copies helped and going through Customs and Immigration was relatively painless. Wanted to include a blip about Guam, so pretend I'm still there! Hafa adai! (sounds like half a day, but means Hello, how are you, in Chamarro). Spent a day in Guam and found it to be very beautiful. It is quite western and very ...

We left our hotel in Yap at 12:30AM to catch our 3:30AM flight to Guam. I arrived at my hotel in Guam at 6:00AM, slept all day until 3:00pm, walked to Kmart to buy some alcohol and vinegar (in an effort to help my ear infection heal and to prevent a similar infection in the other ear I rinsed my ears after each dive in Truk with a mixture of alcohol and vinegar), checked out of the hotel at 4:30 and flew out of Guam at 7:30PM. These pictures are what I could take from my hotel window!

After a final day of work on Wednesday the 28th, we had our final dinner with our new friends. Margaret, Naomi, and Theresa joined us for dinner at Serano's, an excellent Italian restaurant at the Ohana Bayview Hotel. (I highly recommend dinner there, the food and service were first class, and it was not expensive at all!) We finished about 9, and since we had to leave for the airport by 2 a.m. for ...

We headed around to the "back" side of Guam. The terrain is more mountainous, but just as beautiful. We stopped at the Cetti Bay Overlook. This overlook provides a truly breathtaking view of Cetti Bay and the southern coastline, extending south to Cocos Island and Cocos Lagoon. From the overlook the eye follows the valley directly ...

... in the fact that their exhaust points straight back from the aircraft. This anomaly of the EA-6B exhaust quite often catches people off guard, but seasoned troubleshooters like Phillips used to do something called "the pig seat". This is where the troubleshooter turns his back to the exhaust as soon as the jet launches, and sits down. The exhaust usually picks them up and throws them a few feet down the flight deck where the deftly land on their feet and ...

Left Kwaj around lunch time, lost two hours somewhere and landed in Guam, via Kosrae, Pohnpei, and Chuuk, around dinner time. Had Outback Steakhouse for the first time in a year. Went to the world's largest K-Mart, had a blast! Flew out the next evening to ......

On our way back from the Philippines, we have an almost 24-hour stopover in Guam. We mostly stay in the hotel in Agana and just rest, eat, and walk around. Most of my memories of Guam seem fused with my memories of Hawaii. When I try to think back ...