Remember the Lagoon down at the beach, a safe and lekker place to play and float around.... this is however busy drying up...... I also took a pic of the river mouth this morning, the mouth is busy closing up and I reckon we should be able to walk over the sandbar in the next 60 days....
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The lagoon will stay etched in my memory forever for various reasons, one being - i remember (± 10 yrs old) sitting down at the edge of the water on my knees and when i stood up i looked down at my foot only to see blood pouring out somewhere on my arch - i had obviously cut myself quite deeply on some glass for that much blood to appear but the funny thing was, i didn't feel a thing until i actually looked at it and saw it. (mind over matter??). my screams brought my dad running, took me off to hospital as he saw it needed stitches - while cleaning around it, the dr pulled up this long piece of skin out of the gash, cut it off and as he did that, i felt a shooting pain up my middle toe and thereafter nothing. To this day, i have no feeling in that middle toe. The Lagoon's way of making sure I never forget it???
Delia similar experience .. I was ther with Robin and we were walking in the shallows .. I felt pain in my left foot .. lifted foot out of the water and there was a base of a broken bottle that some cretin had thrown into the water around the base of my heel .. I hopped out of the water with blood pouring .. I remeber Flora Fry was there with her kids she helped me pull it off Ouch !!
another memory i'll always have of the lagoon is feeding the seagulls. it was a sunday ritual for us to have a braai at the beach, and afterwards go feed the seagulls next to the lagoon. sometimes we took a drive just to the feed them (without the accompanying braai) - my mom would collect all the stale bread from the week, put it in a packet and give it to us kids to scatter for the birds. for some reason i loved having the gulls flocking over our heads - i would throw up pieces to see them catch it in mid-air....fascinated me that they could do that.
i used to also love rolling down the embankment leading from the top road down to the lagoon. happy carefree days...........the way kids should play.