The Place

Warner beach was my local surf spot, the place we owned and loved. The place was amazing it had it all. There was a river running into the sea which we swam, fished ,tubed pretty much anything. Then there was the super tube it was awesome there was a hole in the fence so when it rained we all climbed though the hole and went bare bum down the super tube. There was a putt-putt course and of course a shop. The beach itself had two surf breaks the one to the left was called porpit and was a right handed break and it worked on a south westerly wind. The other was right which is called baggies and was a left break and worked on a north easterly wind and is pretty much the best break for me. It had a midbreak which you could get barrelled off your head. The rocks that separated the two breaks had a rock pool and when the swell was big would be the place we would hold on behind the wall as waves crashed over us. There were a few groups of people on this beach. There were the lifesavers would we called speedo kings and they have a club in the far side of the beach called Warnerdoone, then there were a group of surfers we called salt men that camped on a hill in the middle of the beach where there were no showers so they always had that salty look. There were the fishermen who all fished for a living and seemed hardcore. The ballies who were the older crew mostly parents and surfers from the past all pretty much cool dudes. There were all kinds of other characters that made up the crew at Warners

Surfing and the beach

The sports side and in my case mainly surfing is what and did and loved to do. The culture, lifestyle and all the amazing places you do surf in and around are the best. Its the complete package and when you want to escape from anything the sea is the best place to be. I started surfing when I was about 10 years old I had a busted arse surfboard, it did not matter to me as I was hooked right away by the power of the sea and thrill of riding a wave. I was always at the beach and loved being there. If we were not surfing we played 1 bounce which is a game played with a soccer ball and it could only bounce once between each kick. We played cricket anything we did we did it at our local beach. The sea was the best thing ever you could fish ,dive, swim or just sit and stare for hours as the sea rolled in, it was the life.

All the rest of the drugs

So have cover all the drugs I did except one which is from a cactus you might know it by the worm in a bottle of tequila it’s called Peoti or the common name is Mescaline it comes from the liquid in the centre of a certain cactus mostly found in the Mexican desert but it grows in other areas too. I only tried this one once and that was enough it has very spiritual way about it. The main thing about it is that everything to do with nature is brighter and more colourful while you are on it. The colour seems almost more amazing than they would in your normal sight. The rest of the man made things seem allot more faded and almost ugly in a way. The spiritual side is that when you close your eyes you would see Red Indian faces with all their feathers around there heads and not just me everyone that took this drug with me. So it seems that all who take it share a similar experience. I cannot tell you anymore about this drug except it are like LSD in that you sees things that are not there but it seems almost more peaceful and you are in an extreme sense of peace about you. Don’t know what the long term effects are but as with any drug there must be.
So that is about all the drugs I seemed to take there are others like I tried mandrax which sucked and then there is speed which today is known as TIK in South Africa but as Crystal Meth pretty much everywhere else. Tik is smoked now I just snorted it and it is wild it has very bad long term effects the main one is it is psychotic. Alot of kids are finding themselves in metal institutes and have incurred massive brain damage from it.

The E factor

Now we move onto probably one drug that has a quite but enhancing take on your mind and soul. Ecstasy or for short just E is one drug I really enjoyed taking because when you took it you could spend the whole night just dancing your arse off. I came from a metal and rock childhood and everything else was techno music until E came to town. I remember my first E was called a white dove and of course took it at a braai. This landed up being a big mistake as everyone else took Acid and here were me and a friend sitting against a wall for 4 hours just watching everyone. So to say the first E I took sucked is a understatement. But the next one was at a rave and that was crazy the music seemed to move though my whole body and at first you are a little weird but soon you don’t even care. The way the music moves you is amazing and you drink water and every touch is highly sensitive. But with every drug there is a down size one of the big downs to E is the next day you are totally wasted , you have no energy and the worse is you are super depressed. The reason I never took E again was I was at a rave and we had just arrived we had taken 2 E’s and when I walked onto the dance floor I looked up. The black figures floating above the dance floor freaked me out, they were swirling above everyone dancing and they were shooting down into people then back to the ceiling . I was so freaked out that when I went back to the guy I came to the rave with and said we need to go he just turned and we left. I don’t know to this day if he saw what I saw or if the look on my face convinced him. I never took E again I think I saw into the spiritual world and it was not the side I wanted to be a part of.

Effects of LSD

LSD (d-lysergic acid diethylamide), commonly called "acid," was discovered in 1938 and is the most powerful known hallucinogen - a drug that radically changes a person's mental state by distorting the perception of reality to the point where, at high doses, hallucinations occur. Although it is derived from a fungus that grows on rye and other grains, LSD is semi-synthetic. It is chemically manufactured in illicit laboratories, except for a small amount which is produced legally for research.

The effects of LSD are unpredictable. They depend on the amount taken; the user's personality, mood, and expectations; and the surroundings in which the drug is used. Usually, the user feels the first effects of the drug 30 to 90 minutes after taking it.

Sensations and feelings change much more dramatically than the physical signs. The user may feel several different emotions at once or swing rapidly from one emotion to another. If taken in a large enough dose, the drug produces delusions and visual hallucinations. The user's sense of time and self changes. Sensations may seem to "cross over," giving the user the feeling of hearing colors and seeing sounds. These changes can be frightening and can cause panic.

Users refer to their experience with LSD as a "trip" and to acute adverse reactions as a "bad trip." These experiences are long - typically they begin to clear after about 12 hours.

Appearing first are physical effects including: numbness; muscle weakness and trembling; rapid reflexes; increased blood pressure, heart rate, and temperature; impaired motor skills and coordination; dilated pupils; and, occasionally, nausea and seizures. One of most noticeable signs is laughter, often at things that aren't particularly funny and often uncontrollable.

Dramatic changes in perception, thought, and mood occur shortly after the physical effects. These may include:

* vivid, usually visual, "pseudo-hallucinations" that the user is aware are not real

* distorted perceptions of: time (minutes seem like hours); distance (hazardous if operating motor vehicles or standing near balcony edges); gravity (sensations of floating or being pressed down); the space between oneself and one's environment (for some, a feeling of oneness with the universe, for others, a feeling of terror)

* fusion of the senses (music is "seen," colors "heard")

* diminished control over thought processes, resulting in recent or long-forgotten memories resurfacing and blending with current experience, or in insignificant thought or objects taking on deep meaning

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Then we started experimenting and to this next drug were anything but a freak show would be an understatement. Hello LSD gee this stuff is wack it really takes your mind and blows the top of your understanding way off. Acid for me even though I did it quite a few times is the most evil drug I have ever done. It starts off all like hey wow and ends off with they are all after me the world is going to get me. One funny time we all took acid I remember is the next morning I somehow have the ability to go to sleep when I want too this night or should I say early morning I woke up to go take a leak. I heard these voices I recognized in the garden, it was the guys I had gone out with the night before, they were hiding from each other in our tiny back garden and they thought they were at war. I can still remember hearing how serious they were as they pictured themselves in a real war. The things you see on acid explain alot about how some of these okes get their ideas for movies it’s out there. This drug also brings out your worsted fears or your biggest pleasures and unfortunately you don’t get to choose. Seen some people totally lose the plot and freak out which lands up making everyone there freak out too. If I had to some up this drug it would be a drug straight from the pit of hell.

Crazy days

The drugs got worse and I don’t care what other people say but but smoking weed it not the root of all drug taking it’s alcohol. The reason I say this is because I never wanted to take any heavier drugs than weed but when I got drunk boy I would take whatever there was going. I remember the first time I snorted coke was one night after I had been drinking heavy and a friend of mine asked do you wanna do a line. Well why not heard about it and now that I don’t have any kind of fear now I dive right in and that was the start of my snorting ways. Coke never was a big thing to me it was fun and you talk the hind leg off a donkey but it was ok. I could never understand guys who were addicted to coke and wasted so much money on it. Coke and dope became the norm and we pretty much did it whenever we could and it was crazy. Again we pushed the boundaries, we were in a pool bar in Cape Town and there were these wooden shelves to put your drinks on. No not us we had to chop lines and snort coke right there in front of everyone. Crazy days man!!!