Swimming pit

Pictures from childhood.

One of our favorite summer past times was to drive or ride our bikes over to 'the quarry' where we went swimming. The quarry was simply a big hole left over from some construction project -- since there's very little rock in that part of Florida, it's technically not a quarry. It was fairly deep, about a football field in diameter, had a very uneven bottom, and was surrounded by bushes and trees. About once every other summer, someone would drown in it -- typically from swimming late at night after partying somewhere. Its relative seclusion also meant that it was the first place that any of us went 'skinny-dipping'. Some time in the 70's it was fenced off, and then later condominiums were built on one side and it was converted to look like a lake. This picture was taken in about 2001.

Scans of older pictures, best viewed from left to right, as part of Jacksonville set.