Thursday, April 19, 2007

All work and no play........

Still hitting the 10-12 hour days and its getting old and dull. I'm hoping to either rap somethings up tomorrow afternoon or at least put everything on hold till Monday. In the meantime until we can get back on schedule of doing what we are up here for.... to have fun and get paid for it, here are a few random shots from our collection







After hiking up Pillar Mtn we were catching our breath when this Coast Guard C-130 flew by UNDER us. This was a good 5 or so mile hike











This is a view of what Adak AK looks like. Adak is way out on the Aleutian chain about 1500 miles from here. The whole time I was there it was this low lying fog bank over the whole island and I was told that's what it looks like most of the year. They also have a saying there that there is a pretty girl behind every tree, problem is there is not one tree on the island








might have posted this one before, I'm not sure. Someone sent me this picture of me landing on a ship in the Bering Sea. The landing was smooth but the take off a few days later was rough as in the ship was rocking and rolling











This is a view out my hotel window in Unalaska. You have too say Unalaska because if you say Dutch Harbor locals tell you your not out in the middle of the harbor. I have to say I think I would have a great day if this was the scene that I awoke to every day.


Here I am sneaking around a Russian ship, the Kapitan Degtyar out of Vladivostk, I don't really look intimidating

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love that all of your good news centers around the Sox. I have to say though, youare such a liar... you know Sangina was the only reason that you were watching AmIdol this season.

Cheeseburger In Paradise said...

no it wasn't I lost interest when the Jack Osborne looking guy got the boot

Anonymous said...

Cheeseburger,

I spent time over yonder in ADQ in the mid-80's.
On an H-3 deployment I saw this "forest" at Adak:
http://telephone.bouwman.com/Adak/forest.html

And also a "forest" at Shemya.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/84/758/1600/Shemya%20Natl%20forest1.jpg

Found your blog through ADN too.

Enjoy your tour! I did.

Juneau Jon
AEC retired