Inn On The Bay P.O.V.(Suite) Agat

... neat.. we stayed at about 60 feet for almost an hour and swam through several caverns. The Visibility was pretty nice, maybe 60-70 feet and we saw several anemones and a real neat lionfish. I partnered up with an old Navy guy (late 60s) your never too old... who had also gone on the boat without a partner. Hes done 160 dives since hes been here and knew a lot about the sites so it made both dives more interesting. The second dive was similiar ...

... a dive sale they do for a monthly customer appreciation day. Unfortunately they didn't have any real killer deals that weren't way out of my league as to what I can afford for dive gear. ( the cheapest gear packages were still around 900 dollars for low end stuff). However they did have a boat going out for 25 dollars so last minute we decided to grab some tanks and jump on it before it left the harbor. The 2 dives went out to "Blue and White", which is just outside the ...

... thing! <br>We started out from another road and hiked 3 hours through trails that had lots of forks, finding several times that we were going in the wrong direction. However we were more familiar with the topography and features so that kept us giong in the right general direction. The hike goes al over the place, through an old WW2 tank farm and down a steep mud sice cliff where we used a rope down into the lower Sigua falls ...

... 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 ...

... br> After all this we snagged a delicious mahi mahi breakfast at a local joint and headed up to Big Navy, the island's navy base, to go out for a hike. Today was the first day all week that the weather was real nice after the typhoon leaving! Can't let that go to waste in rainy season! We started out by going to Orote Point is the westernmost point in the U.S. and also a very important landmark in both the overtaking of Guam in WWII ...

So, this Friday morning here was a holiday on Andersen. They celebrate a family day which pretty much closes the base down so families can spend some time together. Not too bad, especially for us single guys.. Ill take a day off! Id have loved to spend it with Meg but being on the other side of the world I had to go with the second best thing... climb a mountain haha.<br><br> So, Mount LamLam here, at 1334 is the tallest mountain in the world from ...

... in the other naturally. I also saw hooters, which was hiring and I contemplated not going to South Korea, but knew I had to move on. <br><br>We only got to stay one day and it just didn't seem right to eat at an american restaurant on such a tropical island! I love this beach-feel no shoe pubs. On the plane ride back to Japan ( we stopped there first) I slipped on a shell in my sleep. I could tell I was already reminiscing. <br>

... in Japan. After lunch I bought a sarong and some postcards and we went back to bed. I forced myself to stay awake after an ambulance had woken me at 3.45 but Robert is still sleeping as I type this an hour later. This 2-night stopover was a good idea. The view from our window takes in a curve of beach which ends in a high promontory and is lined with rectangular high-rise buildings ...

... bag had left Dallas. They said it had, and should be to Guam at 2:15 a.m. Monday morning, arriving on the same nightly flight we took. Gee, I hope my bag wasn't hungry (ha-ha). The airlines promised to deliver my bag by 9 a.m. Monday morning, only 1 hour after I was scheduled to be at work. At least I had something to wear now-one never knows when a mall will come in handy!

... to suck in the crumbs from my cookie as I ate it, I'd never have a boyfriend. The last memory is from a discussion held at a mall on Guam. I remember little of the island, but it didn't live up to my mental imaginings. Huge shopping centres, taxis, fast food. Commercial America encroaching on what might once have been a tropical paradise. We weren't there very long. Don't even have any pictures...