Tumon Bay Capital Hotel

... 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 ...

... being "icked up" and you could see 100 feet+! Notice how clear some of the pictures are.. Well ill post up here in probably about a week or two.. Weve got some big storms brewing out here so i have a feeling well be hunkering down. We have already evacc-ed all the aircraft possible for a cyclone thats heading for us tomorrow morning... Update... all the storms passed and the worst we got was 30-50 mph winds and heavy showers!

... the Japanese and later by us Americans when we bombed the heck out of it on our way back.. The spanish also used it as a vantage point. The hike starts out on a very steep cliff, and decends down rocks and boulders and a flight of old spanish steps. There are several ropes on the way down for you to "rappell" down with to keep a good balance. Once down the cliff the scenery overtakes you into a palm tree jungly canopy. Complete with every bug ...

... very good. Eventually, the crew moved off the ship and settled into a "normal" routine ashore.  ScuttlingAt the outbreak of American's entry into World War I, on April 7, 1917 the captain of the Cormoran, Adalbert Zuckschwerdt, scuttled the ship, inApra Harbor, instead of turning her over to the Americans. 13 crew members went down with the ship and they were buried with full military honors in the Naval cemetery in Agana. The remainder ...

... sun finished its trek across the horizon and we lost sunlight. So we got some pretty amazing views on the way up and down the cliff,  However there is more to come on this trip b/c were gonna make it next time! Here are some of the shots we got on the way back up.
 
Ok UPDATE.. the next day motivated to find this damn place the next day, we made the trek one more time, only to find probably the coolest place Ive ever seen. The ...

... ja teen jumankeuta laukun lentolipuista, jotka olen samalla hinnalla saanut! Ajattelin kyllä selvitä ilman autoa tämän reissun, mutta niin kuin muuallakin Yhdysvalloissa, niin aivan turha yritys ja ei tule mitään! Muutaman päivän katselin meininkiä ja sen jälkeen oli ihan pakko ottaa auto alle. No, tulipa nyt ajeltua koko saari sitten läpi ja nähtyä hiukan erilaisempaakin meininkiä kuin nämä Tumonin luksuskaupat. Saaren eteläosa on nimittäin täysin ...

... vesiputouksia, lampia, kilpikonnia, karppeja ja kaikkea mitä Japanissa olettaakin näkevänsä. Taatusti käymisen arvoinen paikka, vaikka ei Naritasta edes lento lähtisikään. Minun mielestä järkevintä kuitenkin on, että ottaa viimeisen hotelliyön tänne Naritalle ja kävelee sitten kaikessa rauhassa nämä hommat läpi ja latautuu lentoon. Jos olet aamuvirkku, niin vedä rundi vaikka heti aamulla. Finnairin kone ainakin lähtee vasta kello 11, että kivan aamulenkin ehtii komeasti ...

Things went pretty smoothly getting to Guam. The security lady in the Nagoya airport insisted on hand inspecting the bicycle, so I unpacked the whole thing in the floor of the airport ticketing area. At least they let me help. In the US, they would have insisted that I not touch anything, but wouldn't have had a clue how to pack it up properly. She went about it with typical Japanese courtesy and professionalism (and white gloves).

The scientific crew is divided in 2 groups one is in charge of dredging and the second one is in charge of making magnetometric measurements. The dredge is a device of about 60 cm wide and 2 meters long that collects samples from the ocean floor as it is been towed for about one mile. Once is deployed form the deck of the ship it falls about 60 meters per minute so it takes about 1 and half hours to reach an average depth of 5,000 meters... quite a lot ...

... kids' dad came over. He said it was his son's birthday party. He said they had a bunch of extra play tickets and asked if I wanted to try. "Haha, no that's okay." A minute later I was battling a ten-year-old in a virtual fight to the death. With a quick combination of tiny ten-year-old fists of furry I lost. Quite humbling. I vowed he wouldn't be so lucky the next time we meet.