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Surf check, Wake Island. Wake Island is just a cool place. There are about 50 "locals" who live here year round. Their job primarily is working at the small airfield here. This is a refueling spot for aircraft transiting across the Pacific, about 7 hours in a P-3 from Hawaii, and another 5 hours from Kadena, Okinawa. As we were stopped here for about an hour gassing up, I ran down to the beach to get this picture. Kinda blown out, junky chest high surf, breaking on coral reef. On the path down to the beach, I passed a monument to the Marines who fought and died here during WWII. It made me think of how stupid war is, and how wierd it is that I can be in the Navy and checking the surf in the same place where my grandfather's generation was fighting for their lives. Anyway, occassionally a plane will break down here, and the crew gets to live the perfect life. The fishing here is just unbelievable (I'm told). Truly the stuff of myth. There is one bar on the island at the airfield that opens when people land to sell souveniers, and I suppose beers sometimes, and along the walls there are mounted fish and pictures of some of the wildlife caught here. Huge ahi, wahoo, and sharks, and other fish I can't name. If you're looking to escape to a tropical getaway, a job working on Wake Island might be worth looking into... |
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