Skipper,

We had a hot summer in California in '41, we spent couple weeks in Oahu at Pearl for the month of November, put to sea and crossed the equator into the South Pacific, landed in Australia in their summer, then went to Darwin in Jan of '42, parts of Northern Queensland are quite tropical. So we were somewhat acclimated as best as I can remember.

I grew up in the mid-west of the United States, Cold winters, snow, wide open farm land, and cattle country. The thought of a dense steamy tropical jungle filled with birds, wildlife and a primative native population was quite difficult to imagine in the mind's eye, for me anyway.

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All the Best
Jack