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cinvala
28-12-2009, 9:11am
My wife's father remembers doing this from the same tree!
Miaow
28-12-2009, 9:23am
Good shots - Once or twice did at a camp when a kid but I'm a chicken so not very often at all lol
Tannin
28-12-2009, 9:26am
Yep. But we didn't have sissy wet suits in my day. :eek:
cinvala
28-12-2009, 10:48am
Yep. But we didn't have sissy wet suits in my day. :eek:
I'm actually surprised that they had rope in your day :lol2:
Jordan Compte
28-12-2009, 10:55am
I still do it today when I have the chance to find them not many going about now days :(
Tannin
29-12-2009, 8:05pm
I'm actually surprised that they had rope in your day :lol2:

Oh my lordy yes, we had very good rope.

Every morning we send small boy climb tree. Boy cuttem down vine, makum beaut rope. Only need be sure grab rope swingem water go splash, splash - iffen think rope and grab python, gettum big surprise!
clm738
29-12-2009, 9:17pm
I think I had the same rope as Tannin!!!!
rookie
29-12-2009, 9:32pm
Many many moons ago used one at Windsor into the Hawkesbury River.It was the best fun.
peterking
30-12-2009, 12:17am
Just never with a wetsuit.
Just the shorts you were treking around in.
:eek:
Redgum
31-12-2009, 2:36pm
Shorts, Hmmm? It feels just like yesterday and it was only last century. :)
Experiment626
01-01-2010, 10:31pm
Hahah, yes I definitely do remember! I nearly hung myself on a rope like that, got tangled in it! Oh, the thigns we did when we were younger heh!
Mary Anne
02-01-2010, 5:46pm
Fantastic Captures..
I never did it that's for sure I was too short to reach the rope there was a similar looking place in Fairfield on the Yarra in Melbourne I remember it was near Kanes Bridge I wonder if that is still there 6 decades later. I waited patiently to grow taller then some young Guy jumped off the rope the wrong way and ended up in the Austin Hospital as a Paraplegic or Quadriplegic cant remember which, turned all of us youngsters off it even the boys.. No wetsuits around in those days either..
Big Pix
02-01-2010, 6:06pm
yep.... just in shorts and hoped your bus fare money home stayed in your pocket..... or it was a long walk
wazonthehill
02-01-2010, 6:15pm
still give it a go now
Just have to make sure the branch the rope is tied to is stronger these days!
milspec
03-01-2010, 8:14am
Anyone else have bad memories of the big knot at the end and the wicked backlash at launch :(