Each year a Memorial march is organized to remember the Bataan Death March. There is a large Filipino population that work on the island as contractors. MIx that with the US and UK military and you end up with a pretty significant event.
Landing Craft embark marchers at the marina for the 4.5nm trip across the lagoon to the far end of the atoll, 37 miles from downtown by land.
No Death March is complete without bagpipes played by a Brit and a fisheries vessel looking on.
Our ride departing, leaving us to walk back.
If we were allowed to fish in this area I would name this flat Nantucket. NW facing angle.
South facing shot. I spent a lot of time pondering the fishing possibilities during the hike. Pt Marianne(Thunder Cove) just be seen 3.5 miles across the lagoon. It is a flat I have been fishing for a bunch of years
I saw all sorts of boobies.
This fighting donkey let us pass only after I fed him an apple.
There's no surf in Tahiti, or DG. Exploding off mile 10, double overhead every couple sets and peeling forever....
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