Was a favourite Gull Island winter pastime of ours

My cousins and I would go up there and slide for hours

It looked so big and safe way back then

Too close to the main road when I look at it now again

On school mornings we’d patiently wait there for the bus to stop

Knowing that at the end of the day that fence we would hop

My Sista’ Mary cut her leg on that barbed wire fence

I think I laughed at the time but I was young in my defense

Other times we’d skate on the patch of ice on the border of Burnt Point

There was so much to do down there, never to disappoint

I’m so glad I grew up in Newfoundland "Down The Shore (DTS)"

The memories will remain within in me forever more.   Submitted By: Alicia "Celeste" Loughrey