A girl behind every tree. by Sea_Dog

Photography • Scenic • posted on Oct 05, 2009

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One of my first duty stations in the Navy was on the island of Adak in the Aleutian Islands. Just about as remote a place as you can find. I was lucky enough to merit an "accompanied" tour which meant Mrs Sea Dog came along. For the unaccompanied sailors and bachelors it was a different story, however. To re-assure the new guys coming to Adak who heard of that problem us old timers developed, with a saior's wry humor, the phrase "Don't worry, when you get here you'll find an unattached girl behind every tree". As you can see there were a lot of lonely guys back then. Enjoy

Comments (32)

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MOSKETON

9:01PM | Mon, 05 October 2009

FANTASTICA IMAGEN.

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Blush

9:09PM | Mon, 05 October 2009

Awesome image I have up well sorta a few new ones Would love for you to drop by when ya can Susan~

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bkhook

9:13PM | Mon, 05 October 2009

Beautiful shot and landscape.

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Chipka

10:24PM | Mon, 05 October 2009

This is stunning! In a way this could be another world...something better than what George Lucas would come up with, and even if he did come up with something like this, he'd give it a goofy name. Anyway, I'm on a ramble here, so I'm gonna shut up and just say that this is a great photo. I love the colors, especially since the predominance of white doesn't really wash anything out. Fantastic and well seen!

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beachzz

12:59AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

LOL, though I don't suppose it was very funny to those poor guys!!

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jeroni

3:36AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Beautiful composition. excellent work

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prutzworks

4:20AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

cool story behind great shot I can feel the cold (btw photo looks a bit like a terragenrender lol)

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Alz2008

5:48AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Wonderful capture, i would have slightly tilted the image to the left to get the horizon straight..

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Arrogathor

6:54AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Lol. Lovely image and story.

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Alex_Antonov

7:11AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Outstanding work!

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flavia49

8:10AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Fantastic shot!!! I like this barren place!!! and I support these poor newcomers. Many years ago ( during the Cold War) in the Northeast side of Italy there were the barracks of almost all Italian Army as well as those of NATO and the US Army/Aviation. In some small villages in the mountains at border with former Yugoslavia, where temperaratures in winter are as cold as Siberia and the villages are isolated in the valleys , there were around 10,000 soldiers vs 1,000 civilans (from newborns to decrepit males and females) . In some way it was as frustrating as Adak or worse since there you can see (maybe) just a female.

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sandra46

9:00AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

splendid shot! a fantastic landscape, and i like the story!

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MagikUnicorn

10:40AM | Tue, 06 October 2009

The Earthquake state ;-) Beautiful shot

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Cosme..D..Churruca

12:11PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

superb pic!

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A_Joker_B

12:57PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Great scene!

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tennesseecowgirl

1:03PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Beautiful shot, and cute story. :)

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onnetz

1:07PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

The same is said of Nome, Ak.

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kgb224

5:16PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Excellent capture.

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orig_buggy

5:32PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

It is simply breath taking!

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myrrhluz

5:36PM | Tue, 06 October 2009

Desolate and beautiful! Wonderful patterns of earth and snow. Poor new guys! I'm assuming this was a remote assignment, and their tour was short. Though is probably didn't seem to be. Lovely capture!

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