Bob Hampton's Kwajalein Island

A big storm coming in from the northwest one day made the (usually very blue) lagoon appear strangely green.

This is a view toward the north from at or near Coral Sands beach.

A familiar sign to anyone who has ever walked, jogged, biked, or taxied their way around the perimeter of the island.  The "jet wash" from aircraft on the runway revving-up for take-off could certainly knock a rider off a Kwaj bike.

Notice the Marshallese translation on the sign.  It was my understanding that the Marshallese word "balun" (pronounced "balloon") was the only word they had for flying machines.

The Sprint, and another similar boat named Spartan, were used for shuttle trips to and from Ebeye Island (3 miles away).  Many Marshallese from Ebeye worked by day at KMR but had to be back at Ebeye by evening.

Atmospheric dust from the eruption of the El Chicon volcano in Mexico (1982) caused many beautiful red sunsets like this while I was on Kwajalein.

The cables and antennae are part of the HF station at the BCB, the fire is one of the periodic burns at the Kwajalein Dump.

You never know what kind of wierd things might wash up on the shore at Kwajalein.  This is a scene I found along the oceanside rip rap, just off the east end of the runway.

This is the FPQ-18 Radar, atop "Mount Olympus".

In the foreground is the Kwajalein meteorological rocket launchers.

A closer view of the FPQ-18 Radar.