Pacific Island Club(Ocean Twr) Tumon

... themselves before the Marine Corps made it to Guam to attempt to take the island back. We succeeded.. obviously and in less than a month of landing Guam was ours again! The pillboxes were a little difficult to get into but I swam out around climbed a little and squeezed myself in for some pics. I also got a shot from a hill of Asan Beach which is Guam's version of Normandy where the Marines took the first beach of Guam from the Japanese. <br> 

... maybe 10 hikes and hadn't seen one yet. I saw 8 on this trip... Everytime I would come up on one though it would take a look at me and freeze and then one more step on my part and that beast was gone! But I did get some good snapshots of a few that stuck around long enough for me to get a picture. The hike started at the base of the island on the North end which is at around 630 feet and descended down the cliffside somewhat gradually until it met several small coves ...

... A group of reservists from the North Carolina tanker unit followed us on our journey into the abyss. Reaching the mudside cliff and descending it were very strenous and had a very steep slope so getting down to the actual falls was very interesting but a lot of fun. The first falls, Lower Sigua reaches down 70 feet to the pool below. Its about 20 feet deep and maybe 30 wide at the most. But the water felt sooooooo ...

So, starting the weekend with the tallest mountain in the world, we had to keep the excitement going by trying to top something even that cool. Myself, Joe and a couple B52 pilots signed up for a boat dive out to the "Blue Hole", which is a huge cavern inside a cliff that comes out parallel with the oceans surface that goes from 60 to 130 feet. Its supposed to be really exhilarating and one of Guam's favorite dive spots. However, our boat captain was not a very risky fellow and due ...

... kivasti tämä Guam nyt sopi meidän ohjelmaan ja täytti sille asetetut odotukset. Lämminta todellakin riitti ja alle 30c asteen ei kovin montaa kertaa tämän visiitin aikana menty. Miksikään hiljaiseksi paratiisiksi tätä Guamia on turha luulla, mutta kevyenä rantalomana menee oikein kivasti. Sellainen Havaijin köyhempi, likaisempi ja törkyisempi pikkuserkkuhan tämä selkeästi on. Jotenkin tuntuu, ettei tämä Guam oikein itsekään tiedä olisiko nyt tyyliltään ...

... olisi todellinen houkutus syöksyä myös syvemmälle Mikronesiaan, mutta tällä kertaa ei siihen riitä aika, eikä rahat. Mitään muita odotuksia, kuin että aurinko paistaa ei nyt Guamin suhteen ole ja olen lukenut netistä, että melkoinen Japanilaisten ja Amerikkalaisten turistien temmellyskenttä tämä Guam ilmeisesti on? No tässä on jo paratiisit tällä reissulla nähty, niin antaa tulla vaan vaikka kunnon turistirysää kehiin. Ei tunnu missään! :-) Matkaan lähdettiin Asakusan hotellilta ...

... which he carefully hid in his cave. His favorite food was rat liver. He hid in an underground jungle cave, fearing to come out of hiding even after finding leaflets declaring that World War II had ended. When locals finally found him he said: "It is with much embarrassment that I have returned alive." The remark would later become a popular saying in Japanese. According to Jeff's Pirate Cove, he often heard laughter and music at night in ...

Latte -The Symbol of Chamorro Culture Today, the enduring latte are found in coastal areas and valleys. The latte are the prominent remnants of the earlier Chamorro culture of the Mariana Islands. Each latte is comprised of two stones. The shaft stone place on the ground is the haligi, and the cap stone is the tasa. The latte were placed in parallel rows, consisting of 3-7 latte per row. Latte vary in height from less than 1 meter to 6 meters. The latte were constructed by the Chamorros ...

... whom I might add were not very pleased to have left the party to pick my skinny white butt up!! For the next 6 months I worked crazy hours, partied, took up kite boarding, scuba dived ship wrecks, met my best mate, ran in an exterra triathalon, traveled to many of the Mariana Islands, lived through a Super typhoon, "Pongsowa" Korean for beautiful flower, I don't know who names these horrific destroyers of mother nature!

... very fun, then go swimming in pool with Midori margaritas (green), water slide, then read/lie out/swim, then change into workout gear and workout for 45 minutes, then get ready to go to mall (Trolley), eat Mongolian (Monga Monga) hibachi grill before going to Matrix Revolutions, then go back to hotel, buy some cigars (nice Dominican ones, Arturo something?), meet Ray, Jay, Martha, etc at Treebark, I drink Zombie and a couple beers, have to dance with PAL, then ...