here i am, here i be.
i was in Souda Bay, Crete (Greece). we pulled in wednesday.

its really nice there.

friday i did a COMREL project. we painted a few rooms at a nursing home. that was pretty cool; after the work was done the cooks made us all lunch, damn was it good greek food.

that was the only time i went out in town though. mainly relaxed on the ship otherwise. we had a "beer on the pier" event each day we were there. im not much for beer so i didnt drink, but i went to the gathering anyway. fun times.

we had some liberty incidents unfortunetly, causing the captain to change the liberty hours. that sucked. hopfully people will have more common sense at later ports.

while transitting to the Suez Canal one of the ships was doing flight operations with their Harrier jets, and one went down over the water near the ship. so that caused the whole strike group to stop all operations and hover around for any emergency help that may be needed. well, the ship managed to get the pilots out and safe and was able to salvage the jet.
we started our Suez Canal transit on the 4th of July. 18 hours of hot, slow, narrow transitting...oh what fun. it was cool to see the difference in terrain between Egypt and Saudi Arbia. very interesting.

so now we are transitting along to our next operating area. its sure to be hot, so ill be inside the skin of the ship most the time.

good old AC....