One last walk around the island

Prior to leaving Tinian I was able to take one last walk around the island.

We had a few guests stop by our apartment to say good-bye before we left!

Terri and I take one more pose at Taga beach…

The morning we left we ate at the Broadway with some friends.

The Madonna at the Korean Memorial was all lit up.

They have fenced-off a large area by the Agricultural building to the west of the cemetary.

and they have expanded the area next to the cemetary… I hope they are not telling us something…

A lot of the construction on the island has stopped completely. This home next to the High School has been sitting unfinished for some time. And, of course, there is the large ‘white elephant’ up on Carolina Heights– the Bridge Casino that was begun but never finished…

I believe this was going to be a laundry… but it has also been sitting unfinished.

During the short time we had left on Tinian, we wanted to return to all of our favorite restaurants. This was the Japanese restaurant in the Dynasty.

Terri, Ramon and I have our large bibs on and are ready for a fabulous feast!

More of the people who stopped to say good-bye!

This is Terri and I with Nancy, who managed the little hotel we lived at while on Tinian.

Tinian was back to normal, the large waves of the past few days having disappeared. However, the day we left the islands were preparing for a possible typhoon!

As I walked along the shore NW of the dock, I discovered some new construction there!

It seems that the Mayor has begun to experiment with fish and abalone farming inside the breakwater by the docks. I assume that this will be part of the ‘processing plant’ for the farms.

either that, or someone decided to build a large outdoor bathtub!

They have built a little house by the shore, and then cages in the water to hold the fish and abalone.

The wood laying in the water is the top of submerged cages where the abalone and fish are kept. They had to import seaweed to feed the abalone, and import the abalone (I guess half the abalone died in shipping), and I am not sure where they got the fish to breed. It does make one ask the question of environmental safety… are these new species being introduced onto Tinian, or ones already here?

I guess they are also trying their hand at breeding large clams…

I cannot leave Tinian without taking a few more pictures of flowers, now can I?

It is time to say goodbye to all my readers. There were a lot of tears shed and hugs shared as Terri and I departed from Tinian on the ferry. We hope someday to return to this beloved island! Until then, you will find us living on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. You can follow our adventures there by googling:

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God bless, Kevan and Terri Clawson

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