Royal Orchid Tumon

... the day. Couldnt have spent a couple dollars better! The whole weekend was very peaceful and exhilarating leaving me with nothing but my thoughts and pure nature. <br>On Saturday my normal dive partner Joe signed up for a bouyancy clinic to try to help control his breathing underwater allowing for more dive time each dive. I on the other hand just went ahead and took the boat dive out to dives called Pete's Reef and Nathans Dent. Petes Reef was ...

... water. This one really looked like something out of a movie and topped the other beaches I have seen so far. I snorkeled for about an hour and saw more fish in one spot than Ive EVER seen diving. I guess not a lot of people make it out there so the sealife was just untouched. I saw a huge clam and a large mollusk shell attached to the reef. I litterally hammered at the mollusk with a rock to open it for maybe 20-30 minutes. Sorry Meg... no pearl. :( Maybe next time ...

... if I didnt jump the falls, I would regret it later and want to come back. I researched this before I did it by the way... there are videos of people doing it online and I read up on it. So im not completely crazy. The hike up and around the waterfall to the top was a little crazy, involved a lot of swordgrass and a steep muddy slope that I chose to "ride" down feet first on my butt. Once that hill was finished the view ...

... easy getting out, being there was a nice rip current, and then start your descent. The visibility was horrible from the waves kicking up bottom composition so we had to take a direct north compass heading for a little until the reef began to appear near 35-40 feet. Gab Gab 2 is a popular dive spot because of the crazy amount of fish that hang out near the reef. Sometimes Moray Eels will show up and we got some glimpses of HUGE tuna swimming around. These things are aggressive ...

... sitä suunnilleen lapiolla johonkin 100 litran jätesäkkiin! Eli tälläinen luurankomies ainakin pärjää ihan hyvin lastenannoksilla täällä. Heti ensimmäisenä iltana suoritettiin myös paikallinen pyhiinvaellus, joka on jokaisen tänne tulijan jossain vaiheessa lomaa suoritettava! Nimittäin vaellus maailman suurimmalle K-Mart myymälälle, jossa Yhdyvaltojen mantereelta tulleet turistit huutelee kuinka kallista kaikki on, kun taas Japanista tulleet Suomalaiset huutelee ...

... koska melkein kaikki varaukset on sähköisiä! Muuten tykkään kyllä tästä Naritan kentästä, koska täällä on paljon hyviä ruokapaikkoja, tuliaiskräsää ja jopa kiva katselutasanne ylhäällä, mistä kuvailla ja ihmetellä koneita. Juu, huoletta voi jättää melkein kaikki tuliaisostot tänne kentälle... Tsekattiin laukut sisään lennolle ja lähdettiin paikallisjunalla Naritan keskustaan (230 jeniä) aikaa tuhlaamaan ja etsimään sitä kuuluisaa netti/tulostuspaikkaa. Ikinä ei oltu ehditty k ...

... restaurant are indeed very cozy and stylish. My meatloaf was big, tasteful and juicy. Dr T was not impressed: his BLT sandwich came as a bacon MUSHROOM sandwich. Which was sent back. They restarted and indeed brought him a BLT, this time. The result is of course, that my meal was finished by the time T's arrived, which I dislike very much. Tomorrow, we go diving. We know it will not be up to the standard of the other islands but we want to dive Guam anyway.

... and packed last night and this morning. I went to Global at lunch. Suka reheated some food, we ate quickly, then she drove me to the airport. We got there soon enough that we parked the car and she came in and sat with me for awhile. I had a ton of time. The schedule was pretty much driven by when she had to be back to work. I'm upgraded for the flight to Hong Kong! I ...

I woke up Sunday morning about 7:30 a.m. after a 3 hour cat-nap. I was worried about my bag and my internal clock was all messed up. I was also STARVING, after my gourmet in-flight Japanese meal. We decided to play it safe and so we took a cab to...(insert drum-roll...) Denny's. MMMMM MMMMM. It was very crowded, there were lots of dads being treated to a special Father's ...

... Greek food (chicken pita). Then drive Suppo back to base, which was not easy, but got some interesting stories about his career path and some good advice about mine. Return to ship, do some work. 5) Wake up early for muster, go back to sleep, at noon hear from LT Harris, decide to go to Navy Exchange (NEX) to do some shopping and eat lunch, then we went to the movie theater at a mall near Tumon so I could get ticket to Master and Commander (LT Harris got a ticket to the Matrix).