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oceania-V · Active Member Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 21

Does anyone remember some-one? going down the channel between snake island and the hostel on the upside down cut off roof of a car with a branch as a pike for a row with 2 -3 blokes? out to the Altona boat sheds?

oceania · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 12:24 am Post subject:

Jack and myself used to do that Jimmy You probably rode with us a some stage. We also used to take them across the road into the big swamp, great fun
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aussietrekker · Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 4:08 am Post subject:

Where was Snake Island?

flyingscotsman danny · Active Member Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 80

Yeah, where is/was snake island ?Regards Danny McK. Confused

Talking of car bonnets, myself and a mate from the hostel used to go to a place which was nearDerrimut road and Gerard Springs Facory, which was on the corner of the Geelong Road and Derrimut Road, Now across the road from that intersection was a mountain of blue metal rocks, you know the rocks that are layed down before railway sleepers are put in place. There we found an old car bonnet so we dragged that bonnet to the top and then tilted it, jumped in, and away we went. That was great fun. By the way the mate used to dink me on his bike to get there, geez, looking back now, that*s quite a distance from the hostel, but I must admit there was*nt as much traffic on the roads at that time. ( there I go again waffeling on). Regards D.McK.

flyingscotsman danny · Active Member Joined: 09 Feb 2010 Posts: 80

Me again, does anyone remember when walking to the back beach from the hostel, just passed the palm tree which, by the way is still there, passing a big concrete water tank which was sunk into the ground, it had a ladder of steel rungs leading down into the mucky bottom, there you*d find a couple of car bonnets half submerged. I always wanted to see how deep the water was but was a tad apprehesive. The swallows (birds) used to build their nests against the sides of the tank. I always wondered how the nests stayed put and did*nt fall off. I know now. Regards DMcK. Smile

Susan Gillet · Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 2:55 am Post subject:

Don't remember the big water tank. Being a girl, I probably wasn't very intersted in such things, so it didn't stay in my memory.
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stormfour · Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 4:38 am Post subject:

I remember the tank but i thought it was for sewage!!! it was very deep into the ground
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