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Joined: Dec 17, 2005
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Good Morning!
I thought, just for fun, I'd tell about one driftwood "gathering". We were always hunting up and down the coasts for beautiful driftwood, from the middle of Oregon to Guaymas Mexico, that was our hunting ground.
But, for a couple of years, my dad kept eyeballing this one cove, that was just about 1 mile from our home! it was between the Wilder edition of Pt Fermin Prak, and the Main Pt. Fermin Park. For you who livew there.. go take a look sometime!
Anyway.. the cove was down a 250' cliff, and was practically unobtainable.. and.. had a gloriuos ammount of beautiful white driftwood, that had weathered perfectly. Today, there are poaved paths going down to this cove.. but then, it was a dirt path that you had to scramble up and down, so it was impossible to get to.
Well, one morning daddy said, "Boys (he always called we four girls "boys") gather up as much rope as you can and lets go get soem driftwood!" We threw long and shirt pieces into the back of the station wagon, and set off. Only to the top of that cliff! Daddy said, "We'll tie the rope onto the bumper of the car, tie the pieces together, throw it over the cliff, and then, we'll go down there, get us together a big pile of driftwood, and pull 'er up!" We looked at each other na dbegan tying.. another adventure!
After a few odd throw, we finally got the rope down the cliff a reassonable distance, and then we went around to the end of the cliff and scrambled down the path. OH! Beautiful driftwood. Long pieces, short peices, fat pieces, thin pieces, we soon had a BIG bundle all tied and ready to haul up. Flo and Ba went back up the hill and Mare and I stayed with daddy. Pretty soon, Ba yelled down the hill that Flo was ready. So daddy yelled, "OK! Take 'er up!" and very slowly, as Flo moved the car forwadr at the top of the cliff, the driftwood began to inch up the cliff.. then.. it snagged on some cactus! We scrambled up a bit, and undid.. and it started inching up once more. This happened several times, until daddy could see that this method was not going to work, so he said,"Well, boys, I guess we'll have to ride it up!"
All 3 of us grabbed a good handhold on rope, placed our feet firmly against the cliff, under the bundle, which was huge, and then, daddy yelled to start slowly again! So.... we rode that bundle to the top, and every time it woudl get stuck we'd apply our feet togetehr to get it over the obstacle! When, we finally got up to and over the top of the cliff, we collapsed on the ground! What a grand adventure! Th th th that's all for now , folks! Auntie Bungy
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