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Just Arrived
Not an asupicious start. The rains were frequent but not everyday. You do need to keep the humidity up here - stay tuned. |
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Blue Lagoon Resort Dive Operation
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Blue Lagoon Resort
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Charles
Caught up with one of the other volunteers waiting to meet up with the team. |
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Traveling from Blue Lagoon to Kurassa the expedition hotel
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Local Flowers
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Local Harbor with Modern Wrecks
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Our Dining Room for the trip
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Just Put That Boat Anywhere!
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Getting O2 Trained
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Training Day
Here we're joined by Tracy from the Historic Preservation office, Arimechi from Marine Resources and Michael a local Peace Corp volunteer |
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View From the Dining Room
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View From the Dining Room
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Did I mention it was HOT!
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Kurassa Hotel
Home for two weeks during the expedition |
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Lunch Location
We took lunch on the edge of one of the islands near where we were working. |
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View From Lunch
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View From Lunch - with Bill
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Arriving
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View From Lunch
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Lunch
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One of our two dive boats
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Marco - one of the volunteers
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Yours Truely
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Lunch
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One of the locals
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Typical surface interval from diving
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Camera work table
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My roommates - Charles and John - also volunteers
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Our diver J2 and Arimechi
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Our daily transport
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Did I mention the heat?
This is 5 mins outdoors. We measure sweat in gallons/min. |
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Gearing up for the day - Doran in the foreground is another volunteer
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Traveling in style
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Chuuk International Airport
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FSM Communications
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A now empty hotel
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FSM Supreme Court
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FSM Supreme Court
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Downtown Weno
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The main port
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Marco and Brad at the grocery store
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Truk Stop Hotel - our launching point each morning
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Lunch spot with different weather
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Lunch
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The view from siesta
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The view from siesta
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The view from siesta
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Nic practicing his yoga
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The Primary Investigators - Maria, Nic and Bill
This was their usual hang out between diving and dinner |
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Preping for the dive day
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Preping for the dive day
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From the dive dock
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From the dive dock
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From the dive dock
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Waiting, waiting
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Lunch snacks!
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Lunch snacks!
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WWII Pill box
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WWII Pill box
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Waiting for everyone to surface
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Rain again...
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Night desk at Kurassa
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Special night, we get to dine indoors
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eMail "facilities" - you want hot, we got HOT
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Data entry and recording
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Typical bachlor pad :) - one of our rooms
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Free day dive trip!
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Free day dive trip!
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Another pill box
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Japanese fish processing plant
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Japanese fish processing plant
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Japanese fish processing plant
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Japanese fish processing plant
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Japanese fish processing plant
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Free day dive trip!
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Boat guards
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Island of the sharks
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Our dining room from the sea
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Sunset over the airport
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Evening visitors
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Dinner at sunset
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The entertainment
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PI's cooking - must be Sunday night
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PI's cooking - must be Sunday night
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Vicious fish stealing cat...
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Local dive boat.....what's that name?
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Oh yeah, it's the "Bottom Lover"
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Storms are VERY localized
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We of course had the fast boat...
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Which Bill was very happy about...
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...or was it his crew....
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...and volunteers.
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One of the liveaboard dive boats on the VERY calm seas
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Just like glass
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Maria getting paid back for haircuts :)
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John - a volunteer
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Local store at lunch site
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Local fishing kids
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Yes really like glass
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and clear
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Chuuk Historic Preservation Office
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Weno traffic
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Traveling for a night out on the town!
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The Gang on a night out
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Vicious fish stealing cat
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You want to get away???
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Maria Beger
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Another local liveaboard dive boat
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Lunch spot
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One of the house keepers - Manwela
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More data entry
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Getting ready to leave
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"Special Parking" at the airport
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But not for you Bill!
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View from hotel in Guam
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View from hotel in Guam
Thats all folks! |
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