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paladin
10-12-2006, 10:01 AM
This was my home away from home for many years. It is on the Island of Moorea, Tahiti, and located at the head of Cooks Bay. There was nothing in any direction for a quarter of a mile except for a tin shed that housed a generator that ran from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. at night...I sold it 30 years ago and now a sprawling hotel complex occupies the property.....the original cost was about 1500 dollars U.S.
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chuckm
10-12-2006, 12:19 PM
paradise LOST
paladin
10-12-2006, 01:29 PM
Naw...just relocated...too many tooorists.....
Bruce Hooke
10-12-2006, 01:51 PM
Nice.

What is pretty funny is that a few blocks from me here is a street called Sans Souci Street. Aside from the fact that it has some water frontage (on a very urban river from which we regularly pull tires, shopping carts, and other garbage), it is mighty different from the San Souci you knew! San Souci Street runs behind a busy commercial strip in a low income neighborhood with lots of old industrial buildings...
PaulC
10-12-2006, 08:51 PM
Similar to Bruce, but I was immediately thinking Harsens Island...
mrjoel
10-12-2006, 09:28 PM
too many tourists maybe but never the less sailing through and exploring those islands brought a feeling of awe to me for the beauty and history there. i remember hiking to the overlook above cooks bay with the view of opanohu and cooks bay and feeling like i could have seen captain cooks ship anchored there still :) you must have some great memories of your years spent there.
wondering where you relocated too?
paladin
10-12-2006, 10:18 PM
I sold the property in 1975...I still have the house and land near Chomburi, Thailand...the house in the Philippines is under several yards of volcanic ash...I wandered to Greece and the med for a while and about 10 years ago ended up in Odessa, Ukraine. I left there about three years ago giving the house(apartment) to my stepson...I had hopes of returning to Thailand and perhaps the Seychelles, but health is now a problem.
Ron Williamson
10-13-2006, 06:15 AM
Sooo Chuck...Do ya need another stepson?
R
paladin
10-13-2006, 08:02 AM
dunno what your mommy is like.....:D
Ron Williamson
10-13-2006, 12:19 PM
Single...
R
Ed Harrow
10-13-2006, 06:32 PM
dunno what your mommy is like.....:D

ROTFLMHO
Concordia...41
10-13-2006, 07:33 PM
ROTFLMHO

Ditto :D :D
paladin
10-13-2006, 09:14 PM
awrighty....questions....
1) Can she prepare a meal (edible) without opening a can....
2) Can she give a precise accounting of all current soaps on tv.....to include characters and who is related to whom, divorces and marriages at least 6 episodes back.
3) Is she a redhead (no offense, Margo).....
4) How good is her math and eye coordination....
5) Any history of assaults with pointy things.....
6) Does she swim, scuba, sail, ham radio or archery.....
7) Can she sew, or perhaps work on small diesels....
8) Any training in cabinetry or other woodwork......
9) Need complete set of mug shots...er.... photos preferably all angles, in bikini and evening attire....
10) And does she like strange pets, although currently a Cocker Spaniel is the only requirement....
Ron Williamson
10-13-2006, 09:45 PM
Good to excellent for 1),4),7)
No to all others,and...wait for it...HATES,HATES,HATES water and boats.
That's okay,I'm still available as a stepson.
R
paladin
10-13-2006, 10:10 PM
oh..darn...but..number two..and others were trick questions...it would mean she spends too much time watching the boob toob.....:D