in response to a question
What is Wattlebla? It's a track, or a trail depending on where you're from. A track that you can ride down. On a bicycle. Preferably one of those old bicycles. Steel, no suspension. It's steep and will take any opportunity to throw you. There's a craggy old tree half way down, it's now working as a ramp that will launch you into the trees so WATCH OUT! Wattlebla is always hot and steamy. Hot with jungle heat radiating off the earth and steamy with unmoving moisture in the air. It's a good place to sheer the skin off an elbow or a knee causing you to go to the emergency room so that a fat nurse can scrub the wound with a nail brush to get all the dirt out while you shudder. There is also a really great swimming spot very near by that is quite secluded, so feel free to go in the nude. There's a rope swing (a steep climb to get up to it, and once you're up you're committed to travelling the huge arc down towards the water, so HOLD ON!). Please don't pee in the water, your friends will hate you for it. Wattlebla is a word. It's a word that I never quite understood or heard correctly, kind of like eisteddfod. And so, wattlebla is actually my own word. One that doesn't really exist.

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