Comments on The Burd Report: Fun on the Pier

Pretty cool vibe we have going here, keep it going...

2010-08-19T03:30:36.027-04:00

Pretty cool vibe we have going here, keep it going =]

There was a concrete bunker out near the end of th...

2010-08-17T16:56:27.529-04:00

There was a concrete bunker out near the end of the west pier. It was 1968. Safe place to smoke Manhatten Silver. To the amusement of a handful of girls, Zeke, took off his clothes, and standing there naked in the sunset, he played Reveille, on a trombone yet.

That was then.

Unfortunately now, Cobourg's waterfront has become a NO ZONE. Take a scroll and count the NOs, while at the same time Canada's Five Man Electrical Band plays in your head:

Sign Sign everywhere a sign
Blocking out the scenery breaking my mind
Do this, don't do that, can't you read the sign
-- Signs, 1971.

Forgot to add a big thanks to Wally for this posti...

2010-08-17T16:34:28.374-04:00

Forgot to add a big thanks to Wally for this posting. It really brought back some lively memories of my carefree and careless youth.

What I remember most about diving off the dynamite...

2010-08-17T16:30:34.513-04:00

What I remember most about diving off the dynamite shack at the T-pier is the extreme haste which characterized our emergence from the water.

We had a big eel problem then in Lake Ontario and we were terrified of the possibility of one of these metre long sucking machines attaching themselves to a leg or arm before we could get out.

AAGGGHHH!

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE. Jumping from the ...

2010-08-17T12:42:29.346-04:00

CLICK ON THE IMAGES TO ENLARGE.

Jumping from the pier is a time-honoured activity. When the ferries arrived in Cobourg, USAmericans would throw coins from the boat and be entertained by a few Cobourg outh who would dive in to retrieve them.

Years later, I was amongst the youths who used the derelict ferry dock as a platform for diving into the inner harbour.

Another venue during the early 60s was jumping off the roof of a shed located on the t-pier where the Coast Guard boat now ties up.

Last year, several young men would jump off the end of the pier with their surf boards attached to their ankles. They jumped into froth and turbulence.