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Friday, August 04, 2006

Roi-Namur

Today we finally made out to Roi-Namur, which is another, smaller army base at the north side of the atoll. We took a 20-person plane there, and the 20-minute ride was quite shaky. Especially on the flight back, which happened during the storm, but we made it - the flights are standby, so doing this trip with no official business is quite tricky because there's not enough room on the plane.
The island is a lot more lively and has a lot more vegetation than Kwaj - jungle style. There's also old bunkers like this one that were left here since the times of conflict between U.S. and Japan in the Pacific. The bunkers are nothing special, but deserve a picture I guess.
About a 100 feet from the airport there's this Parrot~ something bar, which if you can read the sign, is a place where people just bring their own stuff to drink/eat and hang out. People there are way more chill and laid back. On this picture you can see Conrad playing some lame dice game where you loose money.
There's a few really big dishes there, the biggest one pictured here. According to people who may or may not have any idea what they were talking about, but were the only ones around, it is used for "tracking stuff in space." Either way, it's pretty huge - the effect from waves can be seen even in this picture.

1 Comments:

At 10:51 AM, Blogger Unknown said...

Hi Danny,
I am a former resident of Roi who is developing a blog site with articles I wrote while there. I welcome other articles and photos from other authors. Maybe we could exchange links and participate in each other's blogs.
regards,
2NGlenn
http://www.roiratjournal.com

 

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