Duyfken arrives in Brisbane
The replica of the Dutch East India Company Jacht, the Duyfken, arrived
in Brisbane today.
The Duyfken was the first verified European ship to make landfall on
Australia, in the Gulf of Carpentaria in the year 1606. It's current
voyage is the 400th anniversary of this event.
The Duyfken is a mere 24 metres in length, small by today's standards,
but this particular ship has made the voyage from Indonesia to Holland
and back, and has been sailing for the last 6 years, having been built
in Freemantle, WA, Australia from 1997 to 2000.
http://www.duyfken.com/ provides an interesting history of both this
replica and the original ship.
View all photos taken: Monday, 24th July 2006, This photo: 11:58am
David, I thought you had work to catch up with because of longish lunch time. Nice meeting you there.
My 2GB is about to be transferred to HDD.
Those whiteish skies have me worried. When you have time, look to straighten horizion and dodge the boat to lighten sides
Thanks for info.
Thanks John, it was good meeting you there too.
I have very limited image editing software at work (surprise, photo-editing doesn't have much to do with Network Administration), but felt the need to post something. I'll definitely be fixing quite a few of the photos up this evening and posting/re-posting them.