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Thanks fuh de pic Spoony. I picked sea grapes out there once many years ago when I had a girl who use to live in de area...but I never ventured all the way back to see de pond. So those white men use to shoot de birds only for the fun of it? When I was boy growing up in town, a white guy lived next door to me who also had a pellet rifle, and he use to shoot wild pigeons and wooddoves in de biscuit factory. I use to go with him sometimes and collect de birds as they fell, and we use take them home clean dum and cook dum. I cud say dat I eat wild meat uhready.

When next yuh coming down Spoony? It would be kool if we cud hookup and hang by your cousin's rumshop for a while. I just luv dah part of de island man.

Yup dah's exackly wuh dey used tuh do.
I kin remembuh as a boy dey used tuh shott dem cross pon de sea pasture between River Bay & Pie Corner too.
Used tuh mek de place miserable at times wid all de noise.

Makes me wonder if they're responsible fuh killing out almost all de pelicans pun de island. It's very rare dat I see a pelican now...aka "gawling".

Gearbox wrote:Well I'm pleased to announce that I located de structure in de picture. I knew it was in the Scotland District area, so when I got into Belleplaine, St. Andrew, I showed a rasta fella de pic and told me dat de structure is down on Long Pond. Now I don't know if any of you ever went by Long Pond, but tuh get there yuh have tuh turn off de East Coast Road and unto a winding dirt\sand trail and follow it for about 200 yards.

The rasta told me that the structure was built by CO Williams some time ago, and it was used for cooking and roasting local food for the tourist on sight seeing tours.

Thanks fuh de info & de photos, GB!

Sometime when I'm in Bim, uh gine have tuh mek a trip dey & check it out.

Gearbox wrote:Makes me wonder if they're responsible fuh killing out almost all de pelicans pun de island. It's very rare dat I see a pelican now...aka "gawling".

FAIK dem din used tuh shoot dem. Probably a decline in fish & pollution do in de pelicans.

Jock wrote:FAIK dem din used tuh shoot dem. Probably a decline in fish & pollution do in de pelicans.

Ok...I saw one or two pelicans here in St. John since I bin living cross here...would be nice tuh see pelican populations rise again.

Gearbox wrote:

Jock wrote:FAIK dem din used tuh shoot dem. Probably a decline in fish & pollution do in de pelicans.

Ok...I saw one or two pelicans here in St. John since I bin living cross here...would be nice tuh see pelican populations rise again.

Awrite den, in the evenings at sunset we would watch them flying from St. Lucy along the coast heading to bathsheba .
And i remember one time i asked my mother where all those birds going, she said they were going home to sleep because they were out all day and they are tired .
Now i wanted to know where they lived and she said in the forest and the hills at Martins Bay.
Some times the decline of species would depend on many things . i.e man taking the feeding grounds to build houses , or excessive hunting,
Some thing else i can remember was watching the whales moving along the coast and blowing water high in the air, we could see all this from my grand parents house at Cambridge.
Man these thing were a sight to see.

Boy you ole enuff if yuh cud remembuh dem tings
But tawking bout whales, back wen I did at CP dey had one dat was liming off Heywoods fuh bout 2-3 days. It wud appear fuh maybe a hour or so at diffrunt times during de day & blow sum plumes or just swim round like a tourist.
We used tuh peep tru de flaps instead of paying attention tuh de teacher.
Den just so - um gone!!


...& yes GB um did a real whale, not Barkee

Jock wrote:
...& yes GB um did a real whale, not Barkee

...see how daindruss you iz...

Gearbox wrote:Have any of you ever visited this place? I understand it is somewhere in the Scotland District area, but I've never seen it before in my driving around.

This was once a covered area where you could stand or sit in the shade whilst the food was being cooked .
Roast breadfruit, sweet potatoes , fresh fish from the sea boiled crabs.
Wunna hungry yet ??
now look at g.bs first pic and see the support poles then look at this other pic and in the left hand side you can see the ovens inlarge to view

Nice Spoony...thanks fuh de pic. Uh see wuh yuh mean...the grass shed is no longer there. It must have been really nice back then when the shed was there.

Gearbox wrote:Nice Spoony...thanks fuh de pic. Uh see wuh yuh mean...the grass shed is no longer there. It must have been really nice back then when the shed was there.

Look here .
enlarge for a better view .

Nice...I suppose Mendez took dat shot in 2000...so it was dat lpong ago dat de shed existed.