Mary's Trip to Guam

The water is so clear that you can see the sand and coral 60 feet below.
Ready to dive.
More caves.
One of the Japanese tunnel caves behind the Superior Court building in Agana.
A blue starfish.

Dive to Double Reef and Agana Bay - May

The northeastern coastline near Double Reef.
Ben jumping into the water.
Ben and Mary in the water. We saw 4 manta rays that day as well as 4 sea turtles.
Carrie and baby out at Spanish Steps.

Mary Vojta's Visit to Guam - May 2009

Agat Bay where the Marines landed in 1944.
A Japanese bunker overlooking Agat.
One of the Spanish forts from the 1700s overlooking Umatac Bay where Magellan landed in 1521.
Umatac where Magellan landed in 1521 on his way to the Philippines.
A carabao.

To Misawa Air Base Japan on the Shinkansen

The mountains of Japan through the Shinkansen window. It was quite a comfortable ride with some great views. These pictures really don't do it justice.
Stopping at the train station in Sendai.
Rice paddies with hills in the background.
More Japanese industrial landscape.
Mountains of Japan.

Visiting Misawa Air Base, Japan - May 2009

Misawa Air Base on the northern tip of Honshu Island. I was here for four days for a court martial. I saw almost nothing outside of the base or even much of the base. I was stuck in the court martial. I did take the bullet train (up to 217 miles an hour) from Tokyo to Misawa in 3 hours (425 mile trip) to get there after flying into Narita Airport in Tokyo.
The base Officer's Club.
Snow covered mountains in the distance. The day before they were brilliant and clear. Not this day.
Faith wearing the colors of her future alma mater.
Wahoo wah!

Diving at Gab Gab and Gab Gab 2

Treading water.
The wing of an old Japanese airplane enrusted into the reef by coral. This picture is taken off Japanese Refueling Piers where they refueled seaplanes and where the PanAmerican Trans-Pacific flights landed back in the 1930s. They were seaplanes as well that crossed the Pacific via San Franciso-Hawaii-Wake Island-Guam-Hong Kong.
One of two large moray eels we saw at Gab Gab 2.
One of the school of Jacks we saw feeding at Gab Gab 2.

Diving at Gab Gab and Gab Gab 2

This is a picture of me on Gab Gab 2 reef as the Atlantis submarine full of Japanese tourists pass by. This is at about 50 feet.
This gives you an idea of what the reef was like at Gab Gab 2.
This is a picture of the sea turtle swimming away I saw at Gab Gab.

This is me swimming into a school of Spade fish that were everywhere.