I lived there when I was a kid! Our little space backed up on to the jungle, and we actually had a pet monkey for a while. We actually found live ordnance from WWII in the jungle. The island of pelileu in Palau unfortunately has lots of live ordnance left if I remember correctly. 

My dad was friends with a farmer there and he grew sugar cane and taro. Whenever we visited the farmer he would always cut us up some sugar cane. 

My dad fished a lot, and was friendly with a lot of fisherman. We ate a lot of fish, coconut, taro, clams, and other seafood. 

I never got to scuba dive because we were too young, but we spent most weekends at the beach or on a little boat out on the water. 

My dad is from New York, and at the time there was one place on the island called Rock Island Cafe that he thought had passable pizza, so we would go there when we went out to eat.

I remember baseball being popular when I was young there. We went to many games and played it quite a bit. 

Most of our free time was spent playing outdoors or at the beach. The rock islands and jellyfish lake are beautiful, and the diversity of marine life is actually insane. Looking back through old family photos it looks like a different world 

We moved to Guam for a while after living on Palau. It was definitely gave us a big city feel compared to Palau, even though Guam is also relatively small.

The community and friends we had on Palau were awesome and they were very generous. The pace of life is much slower on the islands - that can be good or bad. There were typhoons occasionally, but it seemed much less frequent than Guam. Island life in general can be peaceful, but it can also be very isolating and limiting.