Certainly would have been an adventure. ASI is one of the places I'd really like to get to at some point!
Kind of funny to read the stories and see the pics. I've had a few situations where I had to put up and feed a few hundred pax. Also kind of funny that the rooms in the barracks look exactly like the ones I've stayed in on a different British air base
ColoAvs19 - NonRev Correspondent -Globe Trotting Consultant
Like the BIOT? British Indian Ocean Territories of the CHAGOS ARCHIPELAGO.....DIEGO GARCIA. That's a place most can never go to unless they have official business. Also, Iwo Jima. One place you can't fly into is MAUG. Up the Marianas chain but you can get there by boat. It's cool to have to divert into a place like that where nobody goes to. That's why I enjoy military charters and field trips. It's a throw of the dice, you just don't know where you end up. They tell you ahead of time when they call you to where you will be going to, so at least its somewhat of a heads up if its a planned field trip.
Can I visit Chagos as a tourist/volunteer/photographer/journalist etc?
Unfortunately, these islands are very remote making visiting them impractical. There are no commercial tours to the Chagos archipelago. Rules regarding private visits are very strict and it is only possible to visit one or two sites by private yacht – and then only with permission of the BIOT government. Most non-government visitors to Chagos are highly skilled scientists who land a coveted position on one of the occasional research expeditions to the area. Therefore unfortunately there is almost no possibility of visiting or volunteering on these islands.
Last edited by 29palms; 23-Jan-2013 at 12:43 AM.
Originally Posted by 29palms
Gotta love the nonsked world!
ColoAvs19 - NonRev Correspondent -Globe Trotting Consultant
I remember taking our ship around the Chagos Archipelago in the I.O. on some kind of patrol we did with the Brits. We went to one particular island in the chain. I cant remember the name, but the Brits had layed out some water and provisions for hard up sailors on yachts travelling through the I.O and needed a place to recupe from the long voyages. We encountered a sailor from somewhere, I think England itself, and ended up handing him more provisions from off of our ship. This island we kind of sat off it for most of the day, the water looked so calm like GLASS. Hotter than hell as usual. Yea, here it is, it was the SALOMON ISLANDS. It was an atoll cluster of islands. Just like the rest or most of the islands in the Archipelago. I even found a link to it. I remember the name because I have heard of the Solomon islands of the Guadacanal, island groups of south of New Guinea and I found it peculiar that there would be something called the same over in the Chagos Archipelago. Tell you this, it won't be ever in my life that I'll probably ever see this island ever again. (Diego is a possibility via military charters.) Name of that ship I voyaged to the Solomon islands was called the MV LCPL Hauge. (Ships named after Marine Corps Medal of Honor winners of various wars.) Here is his information and citation for that award. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_J._Hauge,_Jr. Here is a link on the Solomon islands on wikipedia. Salomon Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia I was there somewhere around 1987 around Christmas time frame.
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