Filed at 9:53 am under Island Life by glennstu
Iakwe,
This is a slight departure from my normal blogs. I just added some photos that my friend EriC sent me a while back. EriC is a dedicated surfer and a wicked guitarist. We were once in a reggae band Tribal Fusion together. Our original drummer was a former professional surfer if I have the story right who has actually appeared in national surf magazines. The main point of this blog though, is to tell you I’ve added these surf photos and if you’ve surfed on Kwajalein atoll and you have some photos to share please let me know.
komol tata,
2NGlenn
file photo of Eric surfing on North Pass (click to make larger)
Technorati Tags: Surfing, North Pass, Marshall Island, Kwajalein, Roi, Roi-Namur
Filed at 12:32 am under Cultural by glennstu
Assault on Enniburr (or how I spent a year on Enniburr one Sunday morning)
originally published on June 13, 2002
As I have already spoken of in my chapter on Adopt a Beach, I have spent many a night staring across the lagoon at the 3 visible lights on Enniburr, pondering what it was like there and what goes on at night. Enniburr, often referred to by Americans as Third Island, is the nearest island where the Marshallese live. There are about 900 people on that island which is smaller than Roi-Namur. I have walked from the lagoon side to the ocean side of the island in less than 5 minutes, and that included stopping at a friend’s house for a quick hello. But for the longest time I had never traveled there. What intrigues me about the place is that there is no public electricity or running water. Some people have generators for their personal use. All the drinking water comes over on the LCM (a converted landing craft used as a ferry). So when one of the cleaning ladies at work invited me to her church I jumped at the opportunity to visit Enniburr…. Read more »
