Ohana Bayview Tamuning

... 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 ...

... a lot of Divers feed this guy and he is very friendly... coming out, swirling around you and even touching your mask. At one point it shot straight at me and litterally ran into my camera.. not the brightest crayon in the box but hey.. I guess you dont have to be when people feed you all day! The other real cool thing about that particular dive was the visibility. Its far outside of the harbor so theres not as much ...

... Apparently if you spear one, its almost impossible to get it out of the water b/c they will smell the blood and eat their own before you even get it up to the surface. There is a local submarine, the Atlantis, that tours mostly Japanese tourists around the reef. They set out bags of fish food to attract the fish and better the show, which just makes the dive more and more interesting. Lots of purple sea fans scattered the ocean floor as well. The sub pilots have been known to get ...

... point later, these guys pulled out a real nice bottle of scotch and sat around a circle drinking it and handing it out for swigs until it was gone. Talk about Hospitality!. When the party started to wind down, a local guy named Garret who lived with his mother across the street, offered us a place to stay and cooked us a huge dish of "spam stew". I still have no idea what was in it but at the time it was damn good... I can't say the same for the rest ...

... At home, I update my weblog and when I lay in bed to watch my Ratatouille someone rings my 'computer bell'. The Girls! We chat and chat. Also to my, nononono, THEIR Jr. Afterwards, I talk to my brother, who has his new laptop. It was a great day: skydiving, beach, HRC but most of all: talking to the people I love! Yes, I admit: I do get a bit homesick and lonely, once in a while. Tomorrow, we leave for Chuuk. We go diving.

... day and there is a camera shop over the road: tick tock. We take the car! First we go over the road: they have our 'old' camera but not the underwater housing. A nice old Jew (the manager) presents us another camera: Father's Day special price: 435$ including housing. That is less than half of what our other cost. Since we have a car, we shop around some more but we do not find anything better and go and buy it: http://www.dpreview.com/news ...

... fat doesn't always do it for me. If they sold it in vacuum-packed portions it was coming home with me - I'd have fought off the most anal and stringent customs inspector if necessary. But it didn't end there - 2 huge ice-cream scoops of adobo-flavoured red rice, BBQ chicken, spicy pickled cucumbers (but they weren't pickles...yuck!), and 2 pita wedges. I was wondering who in the hell could possibly eat this "plate" to themselves when a 350-lb guy ...

... The story goes that a young Chamorro (local) girl was in love with another local but her father had promised her in marriage to a Spanish captain. When the captain hunted them down they braided their hair together and jumped to their deaths rather than give in to her father's wishes!

... Discovery Channel specials!) CJ and I both popped an Airborne tablet and drank some green tea and crossed our fingers. I have to say a very grateful THANK YOU to Japan Airlnes! Yes, they lost my luggage, but it was delivered on the next flight to Guam the day after we arrived. They brought it to our hotel, and I also received $50 toward the replacement clothes I had to purchase to wear to work the ...

... the beautiful bay and out on the stars. My friends Ray (the dentist lieutenant) and Chris were both on duty, so I had the room to myself, but got bored, and went down to the lobby to do what most bored Americans do (eat). I got some sushi (good sushi, came with miso soup) and was about to sit down and read a book about Medal of Honor winners when some of the supply officers sauntered up and forced me to go to the Treebark Cafe (the outdoor bar) and drink with them. I ...