OK… So you are looking at my web page using a mobile device?   Well, that is perfectly fine. BUT, my intentions with this web site was to share what I saw through pictures. Click-able pictures and icons that open up large pictures. So with your tiny little thing, you are really not going to see nothing! Sorry! Please fire up your home / office computer, and visit my page again.  It will be very different. Below, as a teaser, I show some of the pictures that you can see in “real size” on the desktop version.  TNX’s

Entering UNIA campus.  We came by motocar to the UNIA entrance and presented ourselves to the guards. We asked politely if we could enter the UNIA premises and look around. I told them that I had lived on what used to be the SIL base once upon a time. One of the guards did recognise me, as he used to work as a guard for SIL as well.  After checking our papers, they asked their superiors by radio if it was OK to let us pass. Luckily we did get the go-ahead! I must say I was very exited, and very curious as to what I would find as we walked in.

Two words come to mind: WALL and DUST!.  For starters, two things got my attention. First: “WALL” and second DUST! The roads are super dusty! And I am talking “talcum powder” here…. Inches deep of the stuff! Any vehicle produces dust-clouds beyond belief! Some houses and threes were practically brown/reddish from the dust. So whatever Mr. Sagert did, he did it right! I never remember the roads being dusty in this way! There is now a rather large and elaborate brick wall that divides what used to be the SIL base in two. On the side facing FAP and Callao, now include the whole area of what used to be the clinic (all the way down to the lake side), and the wall runs right between (as far as I could tell) what used to be Waller’s house, and Howlett’s house. Continuing down the hill past Romero’s house, we came to the road that goes off to the left, towards the High School, and past what used to be the children’s home. The picture is taken viewing in that road. It is obvious that this road is not used any more in the same way it did before. It is now partially closed up by vegetation. So how did it go?  Well, I must say I am embarrass to tell, but the truth is that I did not recognize where I was until I “bumped into” the Y-shop and the good old car-shed at the end! I could not believe that I had walked past Romero’s house, the junction off to the left towards the High School, etc, etc… without noticing!  I guess the entrance from Callao road being so different threw me off. OK, now with “Y-shop” and the car-shed in front of me I finally got my bearings right, and never lost it again! We took a right towards the lake.  It was HOT!  The sun was baking like an oven!  Even with “light tropical clothing” the sweat was just running like crazy!  Did it really use to be this hot?  (Probably yes….)

More pictures below the text!