Great thread Merlin.
Like most others we were sent home, but I nearly missed it. There was a huge tree down the back bush growing at the edge of a really really reaaaaly steep slope. The 1" sisal rope (damn it was scratchy
) went over the first branch about 40 feet up. The rope had a foot loop at the end but you could sit in it ( dad had to use a shanghai with a sinker and fishing line to get the rope up there. It was a HUGE old Pink Stringybark, but that tree is a whole other story
) and when you swung out you felt like you were really flying. You felt miles in the air. I was pretending I was in the Apollo 11 ship swinging out through space.
It was only when my mum screamed out to me that I made it back just as Armstrong was coming down the ladder. I remember it so clearly. It was amazing.
Next Xmas Mum and Dad.....oops ....Santa
bought me my first telescope.
