The hammock cabana is a great way to enjoy the comfort of a hammock without the hazard of hanging around in elevated places without wings. Suspended about eight to ten inches off the ground, a hammock cabana provides a place to sleep with a roof overhead. In the daytime, the hammock can be hung to one side on a hook, and below, a picnic-style table is ready for your daily needs. You can rent these ingenious and comfortable accommodations at various places along Stone’s Throw Beach.
Find composure on Lake Zambria
If you are looking for a quiet retreat where you can get away and relax, head to the north shore of Lake Zambria. Just a short distance up the shoreline from Maria’s Marina you will find a cluster of small housekeeping cottages, complete with up to 50 inches of beachfront, a pier, and a personal canoe. These are the cleanest, quaintest cabins you might wish for, each smaller than a Human shoe.
Inside, your cabin boasts a large stone fireplace, rustic wooden table and bench, and in the corner, a comfortable, plush rocker — the perfect spot for a writer to complete that mystery novel. The long table is ideal for laying out your pages and organizing your work, and the fireplace makes for a great paper shredder. For a touch of poetic justice, you can banish any slight drafts in the cabin by feeding the fireplace your rough drafts. In fact, sections of this Guide were written in cabin #13 — the luckiest number in these environs.
If you like to cook, be forewarned that the amenities here are not epicurean. The fireplace has a wire grill for cooking, and you’ll find a small assortment of bottle-cap pans for your use. Water is an issue, as you must fetch it yourself from the spring nearly 23 Human feet away (quite a distance in faerie scale).
If you feel you need to keep up on the events of the world, you can have the paperboy deliver the local news weekly in the afternoon after he completes his morning route. The paper is not easy to read, unless you can already read birch. I have tried learning it several times, and always end up seeking out someone to recite the events of the week.
STONECREST CLIFF DWELLINGS
Just up (literally) from the Lake Zambria retreat area loom the bluffs and the Stonecrest Cliff Dwellings. They are amazing to see, with podular homes and balconies, connected by ladders and suspended bridges, looming high over Rage’s Ravine.
It is said that these cliff dwellers are descendants of the faeries who once lived in the northern region of Calamity Peak, where an eagle family displaced the Fae by appropriating their scaffolding, ladders and other structural elements as twigs to build the bowl of a giant eagle’s nest. Some of the younger faeries were reportedly fed to the fledglings, and when the ruined remains of the faerie buildings disintegrated and fell to the ground below, many of the older faeries, who were slow-moving or bedridden, went down with it.
It’s a sad tale and it is difficult to explain why the clan chose to rebuild a similar structure on a cliffside bluff, but perhaps we all tend to repeat our experiences in patterns of familiarity.
Hitch a balloon ride
The best way to get to the Stonecrest Cliff Dwellings is by air. It’s a dangerous hike to the peak, so I recommend taking a hot air balloon to the top, landing on the big, round, flat rock designated for air arrival and departure. At the top of the cliff you will find an information booth, where you will see instructions for descending to the cliff dwellings below. There are several ways down.
A model of clean energy
The Stonecrest Cliff Dwellings are on the dream destinations itinerary partly because they are one of the Faerie Power sites. Faeries are extremely in tune with nature and are therefore strong believers in “clean energy.” The cliff dwellers have learned to harness energy in many different ways. Their tall windmills move gears connected to belts that turn shafts that move parts. When the wind is blowing, they use their ingenious gadgets to get water, heat or cool their interior spaces, and much more. When the windmills are at rest, they rely on ingenious methods of irrigation, temperature storage units and holding tanks to store the energy they need until the wind blows again.
The faeries also produce their own energy by staying fit at their local fitness clubs. These activity areas have treadmills, round running cages and other movement stations that are hooked up to a complex maze of gears. Faeries always design these activity areas to incorporate enjoyable methods of moving the body to stay fit — the most popular methods are dance-like steps and positions employed in movement games that use the body to engage mechanisms with other functions. Everyone regularly contributes a specific amount of movement to the common energy fund, and they do it joyfully. In fact, I don’t know a single faerie in this area who isn’t fit and who doesn’t have a surplus of energy credit units.
These Athletic Power Clubs are an ingenious way to keep the gears turning during still or sunless days, and they consistently supply the faeries with many powered amenities they might not otherwise have. Some of the devices fueled by this faerie “manpower” include cooling fans for central air, water pumps, elevators and moving ladders, and bellows that keep the fires burning in the communal kitchens.
This is the greatest reason I have marked the Stonecrest Cliff Dwellings as a must-see. It is truly inspiring to inspect the abundant natural and simple methods that can be employed for harnessing cliffside energy.
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