Post #242213 by bungy on Tue, Jul 11, 2006 7:24 AM

Oh! My Gosh! What a treat!! What a photographer! What memories poured out, while scrolling down!
Our home was just up the way from where the white canapy is et! It backed against the cliff, adn Ba's and my room was at the end. We had alower and upper apart! The upper part we dug into the cliff and made a little 10' X 5' cave and then we boarded it in. Daddy got some navy bunks and hung them by rope from the ceiling. We had a little ladder that we clombed up to get into out bunks. We had to bend over because the ceiling was only about 4' tall! We could swing our bunks back and forth, until the mattresses shot off the bunks and flew across the room, and we'd land in a heap!
I had the only window beside my bed, and it was a great big ships port hole that the dogs stukc their head in each nite before we went to bed!

The main gate was hand laid stone on each side, and the gates were heavy 2X6's stained dark and hand rubbed. One day I was riding my bike back from school and it was pouring down rain, I came down the hill, and the mud on th road slicked my wheels an dthe brakes gave out. Now, sometimes, we put a chain around the gate, and sometimes we didn't..So when I was going about umpteen miles an hour with no brakes I had about 2 sec to decide if I would take a chance that the chain was off and go straight into the big wooden gates and hope that they banged open for me.. or.. I could slide off the road into a bunch of MUD!
Well... I couldn't resist the challege so I went for it .. the chain WAS off, I hit those gates. They Flew open and banged agaist the rock fence and flew closed, allowing me just enough time to get through!
There was another gate just before you got to the Dance Floor, which was first made out of BAMBOO!! and then, a sturdier one was built out of the great long oars of the navy long boats. Ain't life fun???!!! Auntie B.
Thanks for those GREAT photos!

PS. Just past the ticket taker as you go down the road, you come to the first full view of the ocean. Each day, walking home from school, I would stop at that spot on the cliff, look out to sea, and recite, Mansfield's "Let me go down to the sea again, to the wonderful sea and sky!etc." I was so glad to get the cobwebs of school off of me!
All are invited to a "No host Pot Luck Finger Food Luau!" at Royal Plams on Aug 20th.. the family and frieds are gathering from noon on, and I would LOVE to meet you all!!! We'll be there til nearly closing.