Oahu, Hawaii

Venus sets behind the battleship Missouri.

The Arizona Memorial at night.


Sunset over the USS Arizona Memorial, 16 September 2008.


The sun sets over the Arizona memorial, with the flag of USNS Mercy waving in the foreground.


The moon sets over the USS Arizona memorial.


On the morning of 16 September 2008, the sun rises over Oahu.


Some of the Canadians on board USNS Mercy wore their dress uniforms as we entered Pearl Harbor on 15 September 2008. From left to right, Brent, Jessica, Diane, Bethann, and Tara are standing in front of Sideflare 64, the helicopter that was hit by ground fire at Mindanao.

(By the way, Tara, at the right in this photo, earned a degree in theater before she earned her degree in nursing; she was often out taking photos of sunsets at the same time that I was. And Bethann, second from right, who is an anesthesiologist, rearranged her schedule to stay with the Mercy to San Diego (unlike the other folks from Canada and India who all left in Hawaii) so that an anesthesiologist would be on board in case of emergency.)


On our way back home, in Pearl Harbor, USNS Mercy is at a pier even closer to the Missouri and the Arizona Memorial than we were last May.


Sunrise, east of Hawaii, the morning of 13 September 2008.


Moonrise, near the International Date Line, on 12 September 2008.


Sunset on the Pacific just west of the International Date Line (GPS N 20 29.7344 E 179 20.5978) the evening of September 11 2008 San Diego time.)