A lazy afternoon saw us decide to kill a couple of hours doing an easy hike with the kids. The Japanese occupied Pohnpei during WWII and had gun emplacements at stategic points all over the island. Sokez Island has probably the greatest concentration of them. So we drove to the switchback, parked the car and headed on up and started searching.
This photo doesn't really do the gradient justice. It's pretty steep and the kids did really well to make it up.
Gun #1.
Nothing like repeatedly telling two children not to climb on the 60+ years old gun to do your head in. Maybe a tetanus shot as a result of a decent scratch would make them listen to dear ole dad. Probably not.....
As much as he doesn't listen he's still a good kid......
The Muffin climbing down to #2 Gun.
By this point I'd given up telling them not to climb on the guns.
A little side note. The top of Sokez Island is very wet with heaps of differently coloured fungi to see.
Gun #3. Time lapse photography in action. This gun had a great view down towards Palikir Pass.
Prehistoric sized plants made it easy to convince the kids that dinosaurs would eat them if they weren't good.
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