Pacific Homesick: Growing Up in Paradise

Imagine sitting on the lava rock cliff and hearing the sea crash under the rock wall. Salty seawater spray will cool your lips and hurt your tongue. Feel the sun facing your skin, it plays with palm trees and is cooled by mist and gentle wind. I can say that I grew up in a place where most people can only imagine. When most people listen to places where I grew up, they can only think of heaven. In "Aloha Province", in addition to the old seaside hotel, there are many hibiscus prints surrounded by pineapple.

In the last 60 years of 23 years nuclear explosion on land, air, water, the bikini atoll again looks like a pastoral Pacific paradise in 1946 - covered with a palm surrounded by azure lagoons The island's bracelet. Stanford University biology professor Steven Parenbie said that they will be able to accept long-term bikinis soon, will visit remote atolls and visit the 10-day documentary "Great Pacific" broadcast on PBS this summer I participated in a survey tour. It took me a while to understand that the alarm did not fail. The navigation system depended solely on a map that was not redrawn after the bomb became 1000 times more powerful than the bomb in Hiroshima in 1954 and then destroyed the three islands of the lagoon including the expeditionary islands.

For a place to be paradise, Los Angeles does not have the best beach. The temperature in the Pacific is very cold throughout the year, but the waves of surfing are perfect for the surfer, but moving is difficult as it is fresh to swim. Santa Monica was picked up by tourists. After heavy rain, the water is full of bacteria. Of course there are exceptions. You can slide into the ocean of Will Rogers State Beach for about 15 minutes north of the pier this summer. There, the curve of the land forms a bay that makes the waves more calm. Kanan Dume is stunning and impressive. You can see spectacular views from the Pacific Coast Highway along the coastline, but you are (normally) trapped in traffic jam.