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    Duyfken replica - Janszoon 1606
    Eendracht replica - Hartog 1616The Hartog Plate - replicaOriginal de Vlamingh plate

    Hartog to de Vlamingh

    December 8, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 25 °C

    The journeys of the early Dutch explorers of the 17th century are chronicled in this gallery. They include the Dirk Hartog Island Plates.
    1606 Willem Janszoon in the Duyfken was on the first Dutch voyage of exploration of the Great South Land. He chronicled his sighting and reported his findings to the VOC in Batavia [now Jakarta].
    1616 Dirk Hartog in the Eendracht, landed on Dirk Hartog Island in Shark Bay, WA. He left a flattened pewter plate nailed to a post. An inscription of the plate proved he had found this land in 1616 if he did not return home.
    1697 Willem de Vlamingh led a party of 3 ships to chart the coastline of WA. He found Hartog’s plate on the island in Shark Bay. He replaced Hartog’s plate with one from his own ship, inscribed the text from Hartog’s plate and added his own inscription.
    The original Hartog’s plate is now in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam,    Read more

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    Historic Fremantle

    December 8, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 25 °C

    A UNESCO World Heritage City, Fremantle is home to WA’s oldest public building and one of the best-preserved examples of a 19th century port streetscape in the world. Many of the buildings are convict built and very well preserved.Read more

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    Cliffs of West Cape Howe NP
    The pilot boat coming inDolphinsLooking back at the entrance to King George Sound

    King George Sound

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 17 °C

    Rounding West Cape Howe, we enter King George Sound. The granite cliffs and eroded landscape has sparse, stunted vegetation, testament to the cold, windswept conditions usually prevailing here.

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    The shores are still rocky but the channel is very narrow
    White, white sandAlbany Harbour

    Albany

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C

    Albany is a town of some 35,000 people. It was established in Dec 1826 as a military outpost. In the 1800’s it was the gateway to the WA goldfields. Until 1897, it was WA’s only deep water port. Albany has a long history with the whaling industry.Read more

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    Floor Plan of the cottage

    Patrick Taylor Cottage

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ⛅ 21 °C

    This cottage is the oldest surviving dwelling in WA. It was built in 1832 while the town was still a military outpost. Patrick Taylor purchased the cottage in 1834.
    The construction of the original 2 room cottage was of wattle and daub, with an exterior coating of cow manure for greater durability. A wrap around verandah was added and later closed in to make additional rooms. The wooden floors are the original pit-sawn jarrah fixed with hand-made nails. The kitchen and laundry were again, a later addition.
    The cottage is said to be haunted.    Read more

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    Entrance to the museum
    Eclipse Island - lighthouseThe basket for winching and the "light"Pics of how the winching took place & an albatrossWhaling implements 1800's

    Museum of the Great Southern

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☀️ 21 °C

    The Residency Museum building was first built in 1850 and was the depot for the convicts establishment in Albany. In 1873 it was converted to the Residents Magistrate’s House and in 1973, it became the current museum.
    Two fascinating facts emerged from this visit:-
    1. Transporting goods and people to remote, rocky Eclipse Island at the western end of West Cape Howe - landfall could not be made; the shoreline steep with no landing points or beaches; the currents and waves too treacherous. So all things had to be winched in from the boat to land via a basket [2 ppl max].
    2. The early whaling implements from the 1800’s were small and flimsy.    Read more

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    At sunset when we sailed out
    As we sailed in

    Albany Wind Farm

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 19 °C

    The Albany Wind Farm is a series of 18 wind turbines which produce 80% of Albany’s electricity needs. They were opened in 2001. High on a ridge on West Cape Howe, we could see them from the ocean before we entered King George Sound and we could also see them from our berth in town.Read more

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    Leaving Albany
    Narrow Chanel's are well-markedAbandoned stone cottageTreacherous place to live!

    Sailaway Albany

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    As we sail away, we get a broader view of the town’s extent in this remote part of WA. There are few places where landing on shore is easy. The channel takes us close to the shore where there is an old, abandoned stone cottage.Read more

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    Nowhere to land here
    No zoom on this oneGotta be an old volcano with that shape.

    Breaksea Island, King George Sound

    December 10, 2024 in Australia ⋅ 🌬 18 °C

    Breaksea Island’s original lighthouse was built in 1858 by convicts. It was later rebuilt in 1902 in its current form and stands 7.3m tall. The two lighthouse keeper’s cottages were built in 1889. The light is now automated and the site is controlled by the WA Government. It is currently being restored. The island has several protected species that call it home.Read more

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    Very interesting presentationSunset/moon rise in the Bight

    Great Australian Bight

    December 12, 2024, Indian Ocean ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    Two days and 3 nights to sail this vast expanse of water. The sea has been amazingly benign given that this stretch is the Southern Ocean and close to the Roaring 40’s. Have seen a couple of ships but that’s about it. There’s been 3 shows and lots of food and beverages.Read more

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    Kangaroo Island

    December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

    From the ocean, KI looks exactly as I imagined - reasonably low-lying and a mix of farmland and scrubby bush. We are anchored offshore, tendering in to Penneshaw on the NE shore of KI. Just near the ferry terminal, we see little penguins, but not quick enough to get a pic.Read more

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    Penneshaw

    December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 20 °C

    After tendering ashore to the Sea-Link Ferry terminal, we wait for our tour. The beach is long, white and pristine, lots of people walking but no-one swimming. Quaint little town and found this koala mural. Penneshaw was originally called Hog Bay.Read more

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    188 year old mulberry tree
    Nepean Bay foreshoreKingscote JettySeagulls are on the ground - bad weather comingWesterdam at anchor on the other side of the bay

    Kingscote KI

    December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    Kingscote is the largest town on Kangaroo Island. It is the oldest European settlement on KI and was established in 1836. Situated on Nepean Bay, there are many species of sea birds here including a colony of little penguins. The first settlers brought with them the seeds of a mulberry tree which was planted. That tree is now 188 years old and is thriving.Read more

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    At the Men's ShedPelican Lagoon - shallow and low-lyingFrench, British and US HeritageSeal face carved into driftwood log

    American River

    December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    American River at the mouth of Pelican Lagoon has roots in 3 cultures - French [Explorer, Baudin], English [Explorer, Flinders] and American [the early sealers who came here when American was still 15 colonies]. Note there are only 15 stars on the US flag. At the jetty there is a Men’s Shed who are building a replica of the “Independence”, the original schooner built here in 1803. They are 10 years into the project and still doing the hull.Read more

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    Lots of grass treesProspect HillLow scrubland at or below sea-level, very saltyLagoon

    Away from the coast - Bushfire recovery

    December 13, 2024 in Australia ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

    The bushfires that ravaged KI were 5 years ago in 2019-20. More than half of the island was ravaged by the fire which started with lightning strikes. It’s clear to see the vegetation recovering but many trunks are still blackened and bare. There’s lots of fallen timber which will never recover now. We pass by Prospect Hill, a huge sand dune where they filmed Gallipoli. There’s a very long set of steep stairs to the top.Read more

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