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Jun 21, 2009 - HMAS Sydney II Memorial at Geraldton

We wanted to look at a couple of memorable items whilst visiting Geraldton, so we spent the morning looking around, and learning lots. As with today's title - Geraldton has a memorial for the HMAS Sydney II, and a great tribute to the loss of 645 sailors. What was even better, was that the museum at Geraldton, which we also visited, had a whole room of information since the discovery of the wreckage last year. It was found approx 150km from Shark bay. A little about the memorial - it's design features a silver dome of 645 seagulls to...

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Jun 12, 2006 - The Birth of The Lady C

A Bit Of Background The First Lady C In Feb - April 2002, Ron and I spent 6 weeks going up the coast of WA in an old tub called The Lady C. Her original name was The Woodpecker. We bought her on the hardstand at the Fremantle Sailing Club in August 2001. She needed a lot of work, which Ron is very good at and never afraid of. She was built in 1932 in Tasmania, starting out as a fishing boat. Eventually, she became privately owned and was used as a mode of transport to get her owner from Melbourne to Tasmania. A doctor used her in...

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