And They Want To Go

Back To Nature

A Los Angeles couple made head lines in October with an announce ment that they were going to get away from it all on “a deserted island about 80 miles from Pago Pago".

The couple, Bruce Johnson, a fortyish health club director, and Shari Guam, a 22-year-old former nurse, arrived in Honolulu on October 12 and later went on to Pago Pago.

Johnson said that as a boy be used to play Robinson Crusoe by eating crackers in his backyard behind a blanket hung over a clothes line. He and Miss Guam wanted to revert back to nature, and they planned to land on their deserted island —apparently Rose Atoll, 125 miles east of Pago Pago—with only one camera, film and sound equip ment, and one bathing suit each.

They planned to take no food, medicine, weapons or communica tions equipment —and the only reason for the bathing suits was the camera.