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Janthina Photo Images > Cocos Island-Guam Cocos Island is located just three miles off the southern shore of Merizo Village. Measuring approximately 1 mile long by 100 yards wide, the islet is the largest of Guam’s reef islands. Surrounded by sparkling turquoise waters, the resort is accessible by a short ferry ride. The destination is a popular spot for windsurfing, para-sailing, jet skiing, snorkeling and picnicking. Quiet woodsy trails thread throughout and offer excellent bird watching. Additionally, as Guam was a provisioning stop during the Age of the Galleons, this area is also a Spanish galleon wreck site with underwater archaeological recovery efforts underway since 1998.
Janthina Photo Images > Navy Hill Lighthouse.......................................................Garapan, Saipan Today, the lighthouse situated on the highest point of Navy Hill sits abandoned high above Saipan’s beautiful lagoon. Among a dozen such naval outposts on Saipan alone, this structure was once part of Japan’s intensive pre-WWII construction activity throughout the central Pacific. The concrete structure stands about 50’ high and rises above a one story gatekeeper’s quarters. Charming in its aspect, the facility was used as a restaurant/museum for a period. At present, the old beacon remains neglected pending interest in its future restoration.
Janthina Photo Images > Adelup Point A white Spanish style structure sits at the highest point of the Adelup Point government complex. Its vantage point could not be more beautiful or more strategic offering an expansive view of Asan Point to the west and Hagatha Bay to the east and facing the Philippine sea. The location was in fact used as a look out by the Japanese and the Americans. It was built upon the foundation of the original Atkins-Kroll house destroyed in 1944 during the Liberation of Guam. Of the original building, the foundation itself and the long flight of concrete steps leading to the bottom of the prominence remain. Ultimately, the site was rebuilt in order to house the Guam Museum. Canons displayed in the foreground are reconstructed artifacts representing Guam’s Spanish period.
Janthina Photo Images > Sugar King Park - Saipan Sugar King Park offers not only a memorial to Mr. Haruji Matsue, the entrepreneur who made sugarcane the economic mainstay of the Marianas during the 1930s, but also the serene beauty of a Japanese Shinto Shrine. Beyond the sacred torii are steps leading up to a little shrine nestled just below a wooded, rocky prominence. Winding throughout the sunlit woods is an extensive stone pathway leading to the temple on the other side. Climbing along the stone steps, cracked with age and covered with vines, it is easy to sense entrance into a more spiritual realm.
Janthina Photo Images > Sugar King Park - Saipan The Japanese Shinto Shrine within Sugar King Park features the most enduring symbol of Shinto architecture-the entrance gate or torii. Shinto means “way of the gods or spirits.” The torii is a sacred gateway to the home of the spirits and serves as the demark between the finite earthly world and the sacred world of the infinite. Torii means “bird” or “perch” and is designed for birds to nest, traditionally constructed of two columns with two cross beams. In Shinto birds are considered messengers of the gods.
Janthina Photo Images > Ruined gray hallways are littered with the fallen blossoms of Flame Trees. Jail cells, now open to the sky, once held prisoners of the Japanese. It is rumored that Amelia Earhart, the famed aviatrix who vanished in 1937, may have been held captive at this site under suspicion of being a spy. Today jungle undergrowth fills the tiny confines of each primitive cell. Ultimately nature will return what was dust to dust; but, until then, these battle scarred jail blocks serve to remind us of history.
Janthina Photo Images > Banzai Cliff Sunrise............................Saipan, Northern Marianas Dawn spreads its glow across the rugged face of the Banzai Cliff. A lone seabird glides above seas which agitate restlessly against unmoving rock. There is a story here of a cliff which presided over the death of man and which will forever stand guardian over what remains. Once a Japanese war cry “Banzai” is now a memorial to the events of 1944 when hundreds of Japanese civilians, soldiers and others cast themselves from the cliffs of Saipan rather than surrender to US forces. Though the seas may churn and agitate, they will never wash away history’s traces. The glow of the rising sun floods over a row of monuments lined up along the upper reaches of the cliff…that we may remember!! The lone white bird seems a fragile symbol of peace against the brooding stone face. A new day!!
Janthina Photo Images > Banzai Cliff Sunrise..........................Saipan, Northern Marianas
Janthina Photo Images > WWII Japanese Memorial atop the Banzai Cliff............................................Saipan
Banzai Cliff Sunrise..........................Saipan, Northern Marianas
> Banzai Cliff Sunrise..........................Saipan, Northern Marianas
Banzai Cliff Sunrise..........................Saipan, Northern Marianas
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