Update from Chuuk
Departed Honolulu early on the 26th and arrived the same day at Chuuk on the 27th? How's that - it's because we crossed the International Date Line...Bob had to continually change the time on his watch as we chased the setting sun west.
I (Bob) just had to include this picture of an Alaskan licence plate on a car in Hawaii! Obviously someone made a wrong turn somewhere.!
We arrived at the Honolulu airport around 5 am for our flight at 7:35 am and had no issues with checking in and off we went on what the locals call the Island Hopper.
We did end up meeting our pilot and hsd an interesting conversation with him.
Our first stop was to Majuro of the Marshall Islands. Most of these islands are usually atolls with a large lagoon in the center. The runways are usually very narrow man-made extensions on the shores of these islands so the pilots have minimal room for error as they fly in. Each stop took about 30 minutes to off load then onload new freight and passengers, which were mainly Islanders. Next was Kwajalein, an active US Army garrison, followed by Kosrae where we got held up by an incoming private flight.
Next stop was Pohnpel and finally landed at Chuuk. Great to see our luggage arrive at the tiny airport. This is the first time we were the only ones in the immigration / customs line:) Bad thing was that we never did get off the plane during the entire flight and Bob had to set his watch back 3 times as we crossed 3 time zones plus the IDL so it was a very long flight with only a egg n muffin sandwich on our first leg. Thankfully Naomi had brought some snacks with her....Mars bars, Werthers...not exactly healthy but was better than nothing. We had no idea the "Island Hopper" as they call the flight would not serve some sort of lunch. Now we know.
Finally made it here and to our room around 6 pm local time, had dinner then to bed.
We'll leave you with a shot of some of the dives we may undertake on the Odessey and the car in Hawaii.
I (Bob) just had to include this picture of an Alaskan licence plate on a car in Hawaii! Obviously someone made a wrong turn somewhere.!
We arrived at the Honolulu airport around 5 am for our flight at 7:35 am and had no issues with checking in and off we went on what the locals call the Island Hopper.
We did end up meeting our pilot and hsd an interesting conversation with him.
Our first stop was to Majuro of the Marshall Islands. Most of these islands are usually atolls with a large lagoon in the center. The runways are usually very narrow man-made extensions on the shores of these islands so the pilots have minimal room for error as they fly in. Each stop took about 30 minutes to off load then onload new freight and passengers, which were mainly Islanders. Next was Kwajalein, an active US Army garrison, followed by Kosrae where we got held up by an incoming private flight.
Next stop was Pohnpel and finally landed at Chuuk. Great to see our luggage arrive at the tiny airport. This is the first time we were the only ones in the immigration / customs line:) Bad thing was that we never did get off the plane during the entire flight and Bob had to set his watch back 3 times as we crossed 3 time zones plus the IDL so it was a very long flight with only a egg n muffin sandwich on our first leg. Thankfully Naomi had brought some snacks with her....Mars bars, Werthers...not exactly healthy but was better than nothing. We had no idea the "Island Hopper" as they call the flight would not serve some sort of lunch. Now we know.
Finally made it here and to our room around 6 pm local time, had dinner then to bed.
We'll leave you with a shot of some of the dives we may undertake on the Odessey and the car in Hawaii.
Missing you already what will we be like in two and a half months
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