Guam

Jet lag is about over and we're doing a little sight seeing around the island.

Guam is famous not only as a tropical paridise, a lot hillier than it loooked like on Google Earth,

and beautiful turquois water (this shot includes some Spanish cannons),

but for its place in World War II history, once controlled by the Japanese and then retaken by the US.
   
Guam's people maintain a special pride for their island, the Marianas Islands, and especially for the stone relics known as Latte that predate the arrival of Magellan.  The shape is iconized all over the place - salt and pepper shakers, bus stops, water fountains, you name it.

This particular set of two columns of four is located near the center of Hagatña. They are about 7' tall and no one has yet to determine their purpose, except they were thought to elevate personal dwellings of early residents.  Here's a scholarly paper on the latte stones.

We've found some interesting local vegetation.