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Pineapple Creek

Posted in Watooka on October 27, 2008 | 11 Comments »

Pineapple Creek ran along the bottom of the steep ravine behind our house on Blue Mountain Road. We used to see how far we could fly paper airplanes off our veranda into the ravine. Someone had strung up a long rope from a high tree branch overhanging the creek, and we were able to swing [...]

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The Dorabece On the Net.

Posted in Watooka on October 23, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Pat Hunte/Cusack has her Flickr account up and running. Check it out by clicking on the links of the “Blog Roll” in the right hand pane of this post.

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Parachutes

Posted in Watooka on October 21, 2008 | 9 Comments »

I don’t have much context for this story even though parts of it are very vivid memories. In honour of some special occasion (I have no idea what) there was to be a parachute demonstration at some square in Mackenzie. The well publicized event drew a large crowd of spectators who watched as Tom (the [...]

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Speed Boats

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was always fascinated by all the boats on the river … we could eventually name every boat (that had a name) as it went by on the Demerara. I especially liked speed boats. When everyone else in kindergarten was making animals with Pasticine, I was modeling speed boats. We got to play with Plasticine [...]

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The Shortcut

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 13, 2008 | 2 Comments »

There was a great shortcut path across the hill to our house on Blue Mountain Road, which was used by all people walking or biking. It was quite dark and scary at night, but the great reduction in time and effort still made it popular. One year a swarm of Maribunta decided to build a [...]

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Taking Off

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , , , , on October 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Activity around Watooka Blog is starting to happen so fast I can’t keep up.If you want an automatic notification of any changes you can subscribe to the RSS feed.
Cruise the blog role on the right hand pane of the Watooka Blog for other related pages..
Check the Flickr Watooka collection. If you have a Flickr account [...]

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Stories From Down Under

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

It’s Eileen recounting ….
I think of the stories I have to offer but I am the next generation on.  It seems to me to that other than the incessant horse riding I always did there, that my main objective seemed to work as social coordinator.  Guess I have always loved music and to party!!  While [...]

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Toad Pizza

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I learned the hard way not to play with Guyanese Cane Toads. I caught one when I was 3 or 4 years old by the dysfunctional kidney-shaped fishpond at our first house down the hill, and it sprayed me with this foul slimey poison. This stuff can kill dogs if ingested, so it is not [...]

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Pauline has a Picture Update

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 2, 2008 | 7 Comments »

The best shot of old Watooka so far.
The new phase of the golf course has not yet been completed and Casareena Drive is still in someone’s imagination. Must have been late 50′ I should think.
Use the Blogroll in the right hand pane to locate her flickr site.

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Dark Tag

Posted in Watooka, tagged , , on October 1, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The Watooka Staff Club was the focal point of the community, we had no malls to hang out in, so all the kids hung around the club’s pool. Many pool games were invented or inherited which kept everyone entertained. There were no lifeguards, and some of the games we played would never be allowed in [...]

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