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[googlemaps https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=embed&hl=en&geocode=&q=Midway+Atoll&aq=&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=59.835084,135.263672&t=h&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Midway+Island&ll=28.210076,-177.37611&spn=0.029964,0.041226&layer=c&cbll=28.213461,-177.375001&panoid=pyHus1pW9T2JOb19YPu44Q&cbp=12,154.4,,0,0&output=svembed&w=425&h=350] See that cute little duplex? That’s where I lived on Midway. Say whaaaaat?! Yeah! I kid you not. The side with the random blue boogie board was home to all of Midway’s eager volunteers and we loved that place oh-so-much. Thanks to the power of Google, now you guys can see the island…
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Ryan, you need to write a book about this trip…..or an article for some very well-distributed magazine, I doubt anyone would believe it. The picture of that bird and the crap from inside it is heartbreaking! On a similar subject you might like to read a book just released by a friend of mine, matt Rigney; the book is called In Pursuit of Giants, and it is about the ocean’s largest fish and how we are eliminating them….
hope there are some saving graces about your visit, not all horrors like this one….Christine