I was only there for a month, but it is a cool little base. Kayaking in the lagoon was an awesome day. I had to work the day everyone went fishing, but the guys brought back fish that were HUGE!

In 8 months there. MCB4. B Co killing about 80 rats in about an hour behind the chow hall. Sailing in the lagoon with the dolphins. Capsizing a sailboat on one VERY windy Sunday and loosing my glasses. Exploring the the plantation and wishing I could read French. Wishing wishing wishing that we could get what ever it took to make the boiler work in the head - 8 mos of cold showers. Cutting down all of the trees around what we refered to as "Charlie" Site (the radar) Seldom wearing a shirt and never wearing underwear. (Sorry about that but needing ventilation is needing ventilation) Uniform of the day: boots, shorts, sox, t-shirt, hard hat. Making sliing shots and collecting rose coral to shoot at the chickens at 3am. Then a memo, posted everywhere, from the CO of the Royal Navy unit there stating that that we were guests of the British government and harrasment of her majesty's chickens was to cease immediately - Serious as a heartattack - "...harrasment of her majesty's chickens..." We didn't care. At the EM club over beer (Double Diamond-disgusting)and bourbon everybody decided that issue was settled about 200 years earlier and if they wanted to bring it up again we were ready, Seabees CanDo... Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh how memorable is seven days R&R in Bangkok Thailand. Collecting some of the most magnificent seashells. They're as shiny today as the day I took them out of the water 35 years ago. I mailed a cocoanut to my grand parents. I chose one that was bairly ripe, addressed it with a marker, paid poastage and had it attached, then took it to the carpenter shop and shellaced it to seal it. About 10 days later they got it. No, I didn't package it. I wrote the address and stamps were on the cocoanut. Learned how to climp a cocoanut plam and open a cocoanut with either a hammer or hatchet. Hot dogs and hamburgers were available for free while they lasted during the movie. We watched the movie nightly on the back wall of the sickbay. Weather permitting. I just went to a website showing a tour of DG. I'm speachless...I was part of the crew that build those barracks. they look like a hotel I lived in a hut 20'x 40' with a tin roof. It's walls were 8' high. The lower 4' was plywood the upper 4' was screen. There was a door at either end and a small porch at one end. that's enough.