• Seagoon_OP
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      9 months ago

      Very big hippie festivals , like thousands of people would turn up

      https://www.dte.org.au/news/Sept83.PDF newsletter written by George , I remember him!! old dutch guy who smoked bidis all the time

      most my mates from that time ended up in byron bay

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        9 months ago

        What was the smell like? A mixture of BO and incense or something else?

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          9 months ago

          like a sweet cigar

          oh, you mean the festival?

          It was outdoors, so just the smell of gum trees and heat

          the food avenues would always smell of delicious Indian street food

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          Pit toilets are pit toilets. You cope. Otherwise it mostly smells like dust and campfire.

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            ha ha, we had use of real club house loos.

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        I’d never heard of it either, but I kinda want to go to one now. I’m not very hipster, but it still sounds fun

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          I’m not even remotely hipster and had fun there. Be prepared for plenty of crunchy type persons though, many of them naked.