The Lagoon!

[Michael Alexander]

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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[Delia]

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???

[SandyB]

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 !!

[Delia]

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.