Coral Castle #2

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Ok. More pictures of Coral Castle in Homestead, Florida.

In the last pic in yesterday's post, I showed and mentioned the massive rocking chair up on the pedestal. This is a picture of me (at 21, sigh) sitting in that chair. Two elderly ladies were there when we were, and after I posed for this and started to climb down, they asked me to stay seated so they could take a picture of it too, with someone sitting in it. I obliged them of course. Anyway, the chair was actually comfortable and it rocked effortlessly. A 1500 pound chair carved from ancient coral.

This next photo is of a piece of coral that Ed Leedskalnin set up for people to see because it was chock full of interesting fossils. In the lower center part, you can see what looks like a face with yellow eyes. Back when we were there in 1984, they had a tour guide, and he told us that decades ago, a visiting child saw what he thought looked like a monkey face in among the fossils, and took out two of his yellow marbles and stuck them in where there were what looked like eye sockets. They've been there all these years.

Ok, I know I'm gonna sound like a dummy here, but I can't remember what you call this part of a car. It's where the gears reside that transfer the drive shaft's spinning into rear wheel motion. Ed Leedskalnin had this on hung on chain, as you can see, and if you pushed up from the bottom center of it, the top of this metal case cracked open. Ed would put potatos and things he wanted to roast in there, build a fire under it, and roast his meals. It was his oven, made of coral and Ford Model A parts.

This one takes a little explaining. See that monolith in the back, with the big hole near the top? It's about 15 feet from the shorter wall you see in closer to you in the picture. That shorter wall? There's a table and bench seats built into it, if you look for a minute, you can see this. Now, right above the right edge of the table, at the top of the short wall, you can see a small dark circle. If you were to kneel on the table, or stand on the right bench seat and lean to your left a bit and look through this hole, you would see that the hole is a routed out hole at an angle up toward the top of the monolith. On a clear night, if you look through this lower, angled hole, or tube drilled in the short wall, you will be looking through the bigger hole at the top of the monolith behind it. It points you right to the north star. For a 5 foot tall, 100 pound man who had recovered from tuberculosis, to build and set these two many tonned pieces of ancient coral with such precision, is just flat-out crazy. Again, he never, ever had help in building and placing any part of the many things in the Coral Castle.


A little more on Coral Castle tomorrow, to finish this up.