Back in Mr Hawkins days we were forbidden to enter the quarry. But di we take notice of him....No Way Jose'
We went tunneling and climbing the steep (well it was to us then) walls and collecting quartz
The quarry at the entrance to the town ... That was the start to one or two very unauthorised walking trips to the pink pan ... one had to cross the salt marsh and it was verboten to be in that area ... also dangerous cos I remember sinking up to my thighs in mud that lay below a deceptively stable looking crust .. I had in my mind and imagination that there was a secret german bunker there .. and searched relentlesly for it but never finding it .. yes the tunneling was dangerous , no wonder we were banned from there ..
It must be noted, we are talking of 2 different quarry's, one being the original quarry at the enterance of town, where the gun club is, a more harder gravel place, with loads of barbed wire lying around, kinda like Sandy say's a battleground german bunker area, and the othe rbeing the sand quarry to the north east of town, outta bounds back then, but a lekker place to play at..
Mr Hawkins..... I remember a girl called Gizelle or something that was here in the 70's... had a brother...
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Yes the sand quarry past the Moth club behind the hydroponic farm ... crazy times also the dangerous digging into the side and then getting away before the sides collapsed .. teenage years .. riding on our motorbikes trying to get up the sides and also flying down the sides ..some wild parties ended up being held there too ..
Michael - wasn't the brother's name Dalme Hawkins? I remember bumping into him in Cape Town around 1993. He had just come out of the Navy or something, they lived in Gordon's Bay.
He was good buddies with Brad and they were family friends with the Murphy's (I was at bording school with Michael, Andrew and Terry Murphy). Their father, the late John Murphy was the financial manager here for a while.
I was also at school with James Conyers - don't know if you remember him, I remember his sister worked at Namakwa Mines (Kleinsee) for a bit.
Spot On Warren, It was Dalme Hawkins, As for Conyers, his sister was in my class in OPS, Think her name was Samantha....
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Dalme lives in Joburg now. He has two kiddies.
And for all of you remembering your youth, here are 2 pics of the quarry taken freshly this morning.....
Remember the sand clot fights the dutchmen against the souties , souties alway at the top, lol
There we go .Who the hell is Hokkas? My point being?
Hokkas is none other than Steven Hockney.....
Did he go by that name? If not why not register as Stephen Hockney? Just a thought.... after plenty wine
Thats a bit deep for this time of the evening,,,, see I've given up drinking now.... a whole 24 hrs and counting...
A lot of people originally register under another name and once they get the hang of the forum and read the various reasons for doing things, discover, without the aide of alcohol, that they should change their name under the profile....
quickdop
Serious.... you not?
Yesh! I'm being sherious.... well until an occashun okkurs!
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I had a sherious occashun to-nite,
We had many a party in that quarry ( near the abbatoir?) back in THE DAY. Cars parcked on the edge with Deep Purple a blarring, fires a blazing ......oh sh*t I feel 18 again.
oops, I think you made a typo there.... should'nt the word cars be replaced with ox wagons?
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Nast boy .. we had cars and motorbikes . if you look under my firrt car .. there is no way you could disguise an troop of oxen and a kappiekommando wagon as a citroen hey ??
My dad drove this massive Kommando CHev that eventually rusted into the damp Namib night air.....
Now was that an oxwagon disguised as a car ?
Yes! but that ox wagon of a chev got us to Durban and back, quicker than Piet Retief could say "Drakensberg ho!"
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Would that be the same trip to Durban that we took???
We moved around in Richards Dads Green Beatle. Sandy should remember that.