va bart Sg Toads pete eat ox See ore bat ow ae. oil f Bulldozed strips, 56 feet apart, which will be planted with coconut trees, right, can be seen in this aerial view oT pe pepperore wobe foo. “4 of Bikini Island. control team is supposed to arrive and carry out a vigorous Campaign to eradicate or drastically reduce the present thriving population of rats on Envu and Bikini islands. In addition to the 60,000 coconut trees to be planted on Bikini, 4.000 will be planted on Enyu and on both islands an un- Colonel Rawlings holds a wahoo, above, caught near the atoll. Fishing is good. At bottom Admiral Mustin is framed by debris as he walks the beach on Bikini Island. known quantity of breadfruit, pandanus and bananas will be started. It is not often that one really has the opportunity to visit the landscape of a dream. Manylittle vignettes of Bikini-1969, will remain in my memery perhaps even longer than the original one of more than two decades ago. . . Bill Ogle sporting a green hat, gav with pink flower print, strolling nostalvically along a lonely beach on Eniiriku ... Admiral Mustin gleefully picking up Japanese fishing floats which drift ashore in abundance... the soft air and balmy trade winds late in the evening . . . the sounds of rain in the night, the rustling palm fronds and the always audible roar of the surf on the reef . . . a chapel repaired and refurbished for use of the returning Bikinians by electrician “Dutch” Robertson who devoted his off duty time to this people-to-people Christian gesture . . . the flashing gold and iridescent purples of a mahi mahi caught in the lagoon and the incredible colors of the smaller fish in the coral gardens near shore. Bikini todayis proof that some dreams do come true .... Magistrate Juda led his people away willingly “for the goodness of mankind.” But Juda will not return. He died four months before the announcement that the atoll would be returned to its people. & 19