Jungle Flowers and Diesel fuel

[yourscaryfriend]

The Navy base at Subic Bay Philippines used to be the biggest base in the Pacific. It's not a base anymore. The Filipinos kicked us out over ten years ago now. But I remember pulling in there back in 1986. It was, I think, my third time there. And when we got off the ship that evening, most of the squids headed into town looking for girls,

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[ironbark]

I have no idea, and I don't think I want to know the smell of tropical flowers and diesel. Tropical flowers can be sickly sweet and diesel ... hmm!

But I do know that smells can evoke vivid memories. I had a grandfather that was an old sea captain. I barely remember him as he died when I was very young but like many seamen of his time he smoked a pipe.

It would have been 30 years after this I walked into a room once where someone had been smoking a pipe with the same brand of tobacco and I had instant visions of my grandfather. It was spooky how quick and vivid they were.