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spex357 · 24-07-2009, 07:55

Us kids used to play dare on those steps when i lived there, but a little further up past Butlins hotel, at the top of the steps a big round wall which turned the water back. Gateways where every two hundred yards and with a neep tide on the go running at 32ft it used to be a fair dash from one gate to another. One day out of the corner of my eye a monster wave was up in the air above me, my friends shouting run, run, i knew i wasnt going to make it and from a standing jump tried to get on the wall and clung there like a limpet. The wave landed on me, my chums had legged it as this wave was going over the wall, when it receded i climbed down and made it the to the gate. I was full of sand and seaweed and i was due back at school in minutes. My teacher never noticed thankfully as i pulled bits out of my hair all day.

24-07-2009, 07:55	#4
spex357 Full Member Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Exeter, Devon Posts: 103 Blog Entries: 1 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 36	Re: Blackpool sea front Us kids used to play dare on those steps when i lived there, but a little further up past Butlins hotel, at the top of the steps a big round wall which turned the water back. Gateways where every two hundred yards and with a neep tide on the go running at 32ft it used to be a fair dash from one gate to another. One day out of the corner of my eye a monster wave was up in the air above me, my friends shouting run, run, i knew i wasnt going to make it and from a standing jump tried to get on the wall and clung there like a limpet. The wave landed on me, my chums had legged it as this wave was going over the wall, when it receded i climbed down and made it the to the gate. I was full of sand and seaweed and i was due back at school in minutes. My teacher never noticed thankfully as i pulled bits out of my hair all day.