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On our flight back from our last visit I had a visit with a woman and her two young kids, I asked where they had stayed," in a Castle on top of a mountain.on STT"..the mother said her best friends parents owned it...has anyone ever heard of this??
Every visit we come across something or somewhere new. After we took our kids to the airport we decided to go up by the university (beautiful, looks much different from the view you see at the airport) we had planned on going to the west end but we came upon a spectacular wreck!! Fortunately no one was hurt, the empty dump truck was pulling a flat bed truck with a back hoe on it, the driver jumped out , the cab of the truck was crushed and on its side, and the back hoe is probably still down the mountain side! wonder who thought it would be OK to put all the weight on the back end? when you have to make a sharp turn going DOWN the mountain!
We did get to see the runway at the airport ,and did you know it extends out into the water? On the day we left we did get to go farther out to the W end, but not all the way to the end....maybe on our next visit? There is an overlook spot, "by the big trees" and you really get a better view of the runway! This is a beautiful area, we have been on the mountains of STJ and this was such a surprise!! The Caribbean on one side the ocean on the other, some homes have a view of both, this had more of a country feeling, like on STJ. Another secret discovered!!
Maybe I should do more of a trip report but
TWO COOL THINGS that I discovered...#1 buy a shoe brush with a handle and use it to get all the sand off everything before you get in the car.
#2 when there is a full moon, microwave some Easy Mac, all the noodles will be standing up....I did it twice....seriously, it doesn't take much to make me happy!!!
Louisenhoj Castle at the intersection of Skyline Drive and Mafolie road is and always has been privately owned and not open to the public - your flying companions were quite fortunate to have such gracious 'best friends parents'.
I remember a water truck being stuck in a tree for months, off the side of a cliff in the late 80s, in the Frenchmans Bay area.
There is a very large dump truck buried in the end of the runway too, BTW. The guy driving it went a bit too far, jumped out and they left it there because it was much cheaper to just use it as fill.
