Community Corner
Slide Show: Do You Know About the Memorial Wall in Seacliff State Park?
It's one of the great secret places in the county.
A certain Santa Cruz Patch editor I know has lived a short walk from the Aptos Memorial Wall for four years and never saw it until recently.
No one seems to know how it started or when. But if you take a right at the base of State Park Drive and go all the way to the end of the line of mobile homes, you hit a rock wall, hidden behind olive trees that separates the public access park from the rich folks behind the gates.
On it are memorials to dogs and people, pictures, anniversary notices, and notes and drawings.
A Sacramento couple told the Aptos Times that they saw notes on the wall 25 years ago, and they were simple notes. "It was sort of a 'Kilroy Was Here' thing at first," they said. "People wrote their names and the dates they visited Seacliff."
It has gotten more formal and artistic over the years.
What do you know about it? Tell us your stories.
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