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Pago Pago, American Somoa to Christmas Island
... thunderstorms stretching long the ITCZ with the "cherry on top" being Cat 4 hurricane Kenneth in the eastern Pacific. How and when do I fly across it?
The information I had for Christmas Island (PLCH) indicated that communication was difficult so if I left Pago Pago with great internet service and flew to Christmas Island, I envisioned being stuck with no way to view weather forecasts, maps, satellite photos, etc. - the stuff I've come to ...
Further exploration of north Tarawa
... to find Broken Bridge. Supposedly a two hour walk from the homestay through a couple of local villages and across a few more tidal inlets into the lagoon; Broken Bridge is touted by the guidebooks as a great place to swim and snorkel. It took us a little longer as we wound up taking the longer route, mostly walking on the lagoon side of the islets. It was low tide on the way up to the bridge and the channels we crossed whilst heading north were all dry ...
Exploring North Tarawa
... to the Police station at the airport and ask for directions.
The runway seemed like the best route to get there so we off-roaded it across the grass surrounding the runway then had our first and probably last experience of driving on an active runway. After over a week in Tarawa, it was actually pretty bizarre driving on smoothly paved road.
We even managed to get lost after asking directions for the place from the Police ...
Lagoon sailing
... br> Unfortunately we didnt' get to go sailing until our fourth attempt, twice it was rained off by said thunderstorms (so we went and got drunk at Captain's Bar), and the third day we wound up getting to our meeting point about 40 minutes late because all the buses were full of people coming home from school and work, yeah that's right, even Pacific Islands have a rush hour. Fortunately for us we managed to avoid causing any offence as the guy we were meeting hadn't checked his ...
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