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A. Lien
Location: Fantasy Island B.C. Gender: Male Total Likes: 17 likes
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| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1363 on 4/2/2007 2:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by yellow_wallpaper Has anyone ever been underneath the Crystal Garden? I had a sleepover there with guides a really long time ago; snuck out of the ballroom and went into the basement. Not a whole lot down there... the old cement walls of the pool and water pumps are still there, and the usual furnaces, spiders, etc. Still was kind of cool.
| "I had a sleepover there with guides a really long time ago;" Were these Girl Guides or Boy Guides? I'm guessing you are a female, based on this 'clue'. The only boy guides I've met or heard of, run rafts down rivers, or chase sheep in the Swiss Alps, and make weird noises whenever they reach a mountain top. If ever you do have 12+ (not 6) hours to spend perusing this uber thread, you will find some talk of the Crystal back a ways. The pool itself is actually a massive concrete 'tray' that floats on the muck and mire that was once Jim's Bay. (You were lucky to see behind the scenes) The only way they could keep it from sinking; bloody clever if you ask me. Jolly good work Mr. Rattenbury, jolly good. So sorry your majestic edifice was defiled by the 'B.C. Experience'. We can only hope something noble comes of this ruckus.
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| yellow_wallpaper
Location: Victoria, Canada Total Likes: 5 likes
If you're not dirty, you're not doing it right.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1365 on 4/2/2007 6:39 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by A. Lien
"I had a sleepover there with guides a really long time ago;" Were these Girl Guides or Boy Guides? I'm guessing you are a female, based on this 'clue'. The only boy guides I've met or heard of, run rafts down rivers, or chase sheep in the Swiss Alps, and make weird noises whenever they reach a mountain top. If ever you do have 12+ (not 6) hours to spend perusing this uber thread, you will find some talk of the Crystal back a ways. The pool itself is actually a massive concrete 'tray' that floats on the muck and mire that was once Jim's Bay. (You were lucky to see behind the scenes) The only way they could keep it from sinking; bloody clever if you ask me. Jolly good work Mr. Rattenbury, jolly good. So sorry your majestic edifice was defiled by the 'B.C. Experience'. We can only hope something noble comes of this ruckus.
| Yes, I am female. Our games consisted of learning the clothes washing symbols and recipes, whereas the boys learnt knot tying, surviving in the wilderness with a knife, tarp, and canteen. I would have given anything to go play in the mud with the boys. Thankfully my parents took me camping so I learnt how to do most of that, but it still pisses me off about the sexist treatment. Apparently the Empress is sinking at the rate of an inch every century because the douglas fir trees its built on are rotting? edit; added a word
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| KublaKhan
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland Total Likes: 207 likes
With Satan, it's always gimmie, gimmie.
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1366 on 4/2/2007 5:50 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by yellow_wallpaper Yes, I am female. Our games consisted of learning the clothes washing symbols and recipes, whereas the boys learnt knot tying, surviving in the wilderness with a knife, tarp, and canteen. I would have given anything to go play in the mud with the boys. Thankfully my parents took me camping so I learnt how to do most of that, but it still pisses me off about the sexist treatment.
| That's funny. Now we know why men are really little boys who can't do their own laundry. Or cook. Go figure. Future parents, take note. Apparently the Empress is sinking at the rate of an inch every century because the douglas fir trees its built on are rotting?
| If only it was an inch per century. It's actually closer to half an inch per year. And the wood isn't rotting so much as it is just slipping into the much. It would be interesting to see what that whole area would look like after a major quake. Imagine the splorin that we could conduct amid the towering ruins of a shattered Empress.
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| meggaman
Location: victoria Gender: Male Total Likes: 2 likes
Hmmm,,what does this button do,,
| | | Re: Under the Garden City: Victoria B.C. secret tunnels. < Reply # 1370 on 4/4/2007 5:54 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | J Pete whats the empress built on,,? old native totem poles made of cedar wood ? Also Ive been hearing that the native people may have built the original victorian tunnels,, had to do with blood rituals and burial ceremonies , stuff like that, thats why they are digging up native bones all over the city,,
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