I just spent 7 days on the island of Guam (which is a US territory, fwiw). I spent a lot of my waking time in a cold, windowless, loud shipping container (with doors), but I did get a chance to drive around the southern end of the island for a bit. Here are some pics:
Yep, it's an island ...
It has coconuts ... at least, I think they are coconuts.
From a WWII park
The sign recommends against climbing on the guns, since they are rusting away. This is a Japanese anti-aircraft gun. [Guam was invaded by the Japanese not long after Pearl Harbor and was held for 2.5 years. It has been a US territory since the 1898, following the Spanish-American war.]
The park is beautiful. Sadly, my camera was not able to pick up the detail in the sky. I could hardly see what I was photographing from the glare on the display, so I guess I should be glad to have anything.
There seems to be a certain fondness for bright colors:
The plaque on this bridge said that the original plan was just to build a bridge. However, the governor insisted that it be made artistic (I don't remember the exact words) and be something that would celebrate the Spanish and Chamorro heritage of the island, so they added the towers. [The Chamorro people are the indigenous people of the Mariana Islands,]
I am not sure the governers efforts were completely appreciated. The bridge was built (the sign said) in the 1980s and the inside of the towers seem to have not been touched since then ...
This photo has a bit of the feel of Magritte's Empire of Light (without the great art, of course), but that is just a limit of my camera.
