see those beautiful blue speckles in the upper middle labelled
marshall islands?
let's look closer ...
ah, there we are. marshall islands. all of them in plain view.
now look in the middle.
see that one called Kwajalein Atoll...
kinda small, eh. closer??
there it is!
oh, and "what's an atoll" you say?
this folks is an atoll.
it's an island of coral that encircles a lagoon.
so in the picture two pictures up, all the white area in the middle is not land, but water. lagoon. and the red dotty looking area around the outside, yah, those dots are the land.
kwajalein, or kwaj as the local call it, does not fully encircle it's lagoon. it's a little broken up here an there. and it's said to be the largest atoll. and guess who fought for in WWII ... yep, the U.S. of A. it's also known as the catcher's mitt because we shoot missiles from california to the kwaj lagoon.
i know, "gee stef. thanks for the geography/history lesson."
well, that's where case is working next week. kwajalein atoll. crazy, eh! he flies out monday, gets there tuesday, leaves friday, and gets home thursday. tricky tricky. ok, not not really. but yes, he gets to cross the international date line TWICE in one week. how rad is that! and of course kwaj isn't on our illustrious cell plan provided by the oh-so-reliable AT&T (no sarcasm intended. we love 'em!), so we won't be speaking from monday til friday. that's what's REALLY crazy.
so, hawaiian folk, if you're bored next week, i guarantee i am too.
call me and we'll party like it's 1999.
6 comments:
you have no idea how excited Chris would be to go with him! call me when your super bored! happy flight to Casey! give the girls a hug from their auntie in the mainland!!! :>)
kwajalein - sounds very familiar and i don't know why. has it been on the news? maybe from my history class...oh, we can have another "craft" day.
Sounds pretty exotic! Do many people live on there? Will he have access to the internet? If so, skype is free!
that sounds awesome! how fun that he gets to go to this mysterious place. I don't like that we shoot missiles at it. It just doesn't seem safe...or good for the environment.
What takes Casey to Kwaj (I write that like I am soooo familiar with the atoll :)?
Work stuff?
That is crazy. When you said he is gone for a week I assumed it was just to another island. Ie: Maui etc. Amazing!
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