OHMYDOG! I almost drowned at Castle Park!! I went only one time for a birthday party, right when it first opened. I was seven or eight-ish and on the lazy river, and I fell out of my inner tube. It was packed with people, like...literally shoulder to shoulder, tube to tube, and I got caught under the water. It was really shallow, but everyone sitting in their tubes was on top of me. I managed to get my hand through, and a woman pulled me up just before I passed out. It was totally scary. My mom wasn't there and only heard about it after I got home. She never let me go back, and no doubt, I never wanted to. :o
I'm not sure I know where the Wheeler base was. Was it over near Pearl City? I almost never went over there because everyone said it was soooooooo far, but I loved the Pearl City mall because for a dime, you could ride on the monorail.
Hawaii really did (does) have great places to explore. It was cool too because back when I lived there, kids had a lot more freedom than they do now. We kind of just ran wild in the woods and at the beach, especially out in Kaaawa since it's kind of rural. It was a wonderful playground and such a wonderful place to be a child.
I think drownings was one of the main reasons Castle Park closed. I remember my school used to have field trips there for the older kids but the year my class was supposed to go they canceled those type of field trips because of a student drowning one year. I never really went in the water there anyway because I didn't know how to swim.
Wheeler was in Wahiawa so it was even farther than Pearl City. Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore. The Pearl Ridge Shopping Center is where I usually go since its closer than Ala Moana. I just go there for the theaters actually. A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive! It's 50 cents now and I've been on it a whole bunch because of the lack of times my parents took me and not one time did I think it was too expensive. Not quite as exciting now though...
Oh wait I lied about the monorail being too expensive. One time I was at the book store and I ended up being like 30 cents short. If only I had walked instead of taking the monorail!
Wow...the monorail is still there! That's so great. :)
"A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive!"
HAHAHAHA!! Too funny. The things parents come up with. Yes, it was only dime. I remember because I'd collect dimes and then try to convince my aunt to take me on the weekends. She didn't give in very often. It might've been a dime each way, though; that I don't remember.
"Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore."
On the way to the North Shore going the other way, right? Not the Kaaawa/Kahuku side. I don't recognize that town's name. I never went all the way around that side, though, I don't think. The farthest we'd go was to Haleiwa to the shave ice place, which I've heard is still there and is famous now, apparently. My mother used to take me to get shave ice, and then we'd go to the Bonsai Pipeline to watch the waves. Back then, there were only a few hardcore surfers; now, I bet it's packed. Pipeline and the shave ice place would be the first stops on my list of things to visit if I ever went back. :) The monorail would be second.
I'm not sure I know where the Wheeler base was. Was it over near Pearl City? I almost never went over there because everyone said it was soooooooo far, but I loved the Pearl City mall because for a dime, you could ride on the monorail.
Hawaii really did (does) have great places to explore. It was cool too because back when I lived there, kids had a lot more freedom than they do now. We kind of just ran wild in the woods and at the beach, especially out in Kaaawa since it's kind of rural. It was a wonderful playground and such a wonderful place to be a child.
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Wheeler was in Wahiawa so it was even farther than Pearl City. Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore. The Pearl Ridge Shopping Center is where I usually go since its closer than Ala Moana. I just go there for the theaters actually. A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive! It's 50 cents now and I've been on it a whole bunch because of the lack of times my parents took me and not one time did I think it was too expensive. Not quite as exciting now though...
Oh wait I lied about the monorail being too expensive. One time I was at the book store and I ended up being like 30 cents short. If only I had walked instead of taking the monorail!
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"A dime for the monorail back then huh? My parents lied back then! I always wanted to ride the monorail whenever we went there but my parents said it was too expensive!"
HAHAHAHA!! Too funny. The things parents come up with. Yes, it was only dime. I remember because I'd collect dimes and then try to convince my aunt to take me on the weekends. She didn't give in very often. It might've been a dime each way, though; that I don't remember.
"Easiest to remember Wahiawa as the small town in the middle of the island on the way to the North Shore."
On the way to the North Shore going the other way, right? Not the Kaaawa/Kahuku side. I don't recognize that town's name. I never went all the way around that side, though, I don't think. The farthest we'd go was to Haleiwa to the shave ice place, which I've heard is still there and is famous now, apparently. My mother used to take me to get shave ice, and then we'd go to the Bonsai Pipeline to watch the waves. Back then, there were only a few hardcore surfers; now, I bet it's packed. Pipeline and the shave ice place would be the first stops on my list of things to visit if I ever went back. :) The monorail would be second.
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