The ship moored in Okinawa with my point and shoot camera
Staff Corps pig roast
The Staff Corps officers (Dental, Medical, Supply) prepare five pigs for the pig roast on the flight deck before heading home to Japan.
Open Swim
A hundred miles to the East of Taiwan. The water was so still that morning that the Captain gave everyone an hour or so to swim in the ocean.
Sailors and Marines lining up in the well deck ready to jump in the water. To the left is the hull of the ship and to the right is the LCU on which I am standing. When we launch the LCU, the ship lowers and the well deck fills with 8 feet of water.
Corpsman Wall (my hygienist) and Allen looking at the open ocean from inside the well-deck as the stern gate opens.
Singapore Botanic Gardens and Orchid Park
Singapore's national flower is the orchid. They are everywhere.
You can't see it in this picture, but every inch of this tree was carved with the names of visitors to the gardens in many different languages.
Surrounded by yellow orchids.
Last day in Brunei
Suppo and I visited the Jame’ Asr Hassanil Bolkiah Mosque. This is just the lobby; there were no pictures allowed on the inside. Too bad because it was impressive.
Ship stuff
My room / closet. Could be worse...
Harpers Ferry (large one on the left) in port with USS Crommelin ( far left) and USS Chafee (far right). This is our destroyer squadron accompaniment. They might be small, but their weapons are something else. Plus, Chafee is a Guided Missle Destroyer so it sports SPY-1, TLAM, and AEGIS. Yikes.
Third night in Brunei
After work we decided to visit an amusement park in Jerudong which was supposed to be the larger than Disney Hong Kong. The park, we found out upon arrival, facing budgetary issues in 2006 was forced to disassemble it's rollercoasters and abandon a majority of the land. Consequently, most of the park was completely empty; full of weeds, insects, and had no lighting. It was foggy and dark and reminded me of a scary movie- I loved it. At one point I went to set my camera down to try and get a picture of everything when I noticed the rail I was about to use was moving. I took a flash picture to see why: it was covered with big, red fire-ants. I am glad I decided to investigate before leaning on it.
We stumbled upon some functioning go-karts, although only two worked so we had to take turns racing each other. Creepy looking.
I'm certainly not starving
Authentic Korean with an authentic Korean
Brunei Darussalam
Ice cream
Fruit cocktail with jellies, coconut and legumes.
They just kept bringing things out!
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