Ranger (CV 61) - Naval Cruise Book

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, , ..L.....:,..s.,: . .,f,f-,M PARADISE LOST Three days...that's all the time Ranger left us to romp in Paradisemthree pre- shrunk, exasperatingly short days... You could have rented a car and scooted all over Oahu, gulping its tropical beauties as if they were Nlai Tai,s...or simply found one cove that harmonized with a void in your soul, one quiet baylet perhaps even Captain Cook had missed...its black coral shallows visible beneath the calm ripples of aquamarine, a comfortable morning sun gleaming of the breakers and the clean sand... Or maybe you swung with the majority of sailors up and down Kulakaua Avenue ...past the cool, tall, rectangles which barrack the tourist army occupying Hono- lulu...or got a crick in your neck watching the indolent blonds on Waikfiki turn their plump flesh a rich native tan ...... At times, however, their were uneasy feelings about Paradisemespecially when your wallet went limp...or when you began to suspect that Hawaii is entirely populated by Californians and a couple of imported Tahitian hula dancers...but three days was not really enough time to demolish a lifetime of dreaming.

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