1 Shot Wednesday: Jurassic Park Na Pali Coast

Fiji yes, the usual exotics no. Philippines, Indonesia, Guam Saipan and those other remote islands were part of my responsibility for ten years along with the East Asia Pacific. I can remember flying from Davao in South Philippines to Borneo in a small plane flying at a height where you can appreciate the beauty of the Pacific. Unfortunately because of strong headwinds we were anxious as it looked like we could run out of fuel. That was stressful. On some of those islands important staging points in the Pacific War I’ve walked over old airstrips with trees growing all over them and seen thousands of barrels of fuel rotting at the side of the tarmac. Potential for major pollution in future I’d imagine. Hopefully they were empty drums. It was sobering to visit Jaya Pura (Place of victory in Sanskrit) and see the memorials to General Macarthur’s thrust toward the Philippines. Much more sobering than reading a book about it to actually see places that figured so much in that saga.

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