Swimming
Warner: I remember swimming in the Hurricane Canal and the Virgin River and La Verkin Springs which we called stinky springs. Hurricane was hot so we went
swimming a lot. We had our special places.Arlington: Yes, we'd go to three rocks or babylon to swim. We'd ride the cinders down to the river.
Warner: We would start a small avalanche in the cinders and you could ride it to the bottom. The only thing was that you had to stop half way or you would go over a ten foot cliff. Then you would walk over a little and ride it again. It was really fun.
Virgin River
Arlington: We'd swim all afternoon but then you had to climb out of there and it was really a long way.
Warner: We didn't have any water so when we finally got to Brown's farm and got a drink it was the best water you ever tasted.
There was a place in the canal where the bottom was all cement for about ten feet. We'd go there to swim.Arlington: I almost died on the canal. It was right where the canal went through the hill. I had fallen and hurt my shin so I wasn't really thinking to clearly. Water was leaking out of the diversion and there was moss in it. I slipped on the moss and took off down the diversion toward a 50 foot dropoff. I grabbed a pipe just before I got to the dropoff and it saved my life.
where the cement was in the canal
Warner: LaVerkin Springs was actually a swimming pool. It also had small pools out in
back that were really hot. It was a hot springs and smelled like sulphur so that is why we called it stinky springs. I was baptized in stinky springs. It was a long walk to any of these but we would pick pomegranates and eat them on the way. Hot pools