Posted on 08/31/2007 9:05:16 AM PDT by DancesWithCats
My Father said that when he was out on the fantail taking a break. He would watch the Destroyers bob up and down with the waves. They would disappear and then reappear on top of the crest and then disappear again. He said he was thankful for serving on an aircraft carrier that glided through the waves as if they were not there. :)
LOL! I was thinking along the same lines...’don’t let me forget to take my wallet when we get off the boat, there might be some interesting ‘establishments’ a sailor can patronize...’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aC-A6SP3EsQ
I’d be very surprised if Australia hasn’t seen landfalls by many different ships from many different cultures going back thousands of years. The idea that the ancestors of the aborigines got there by boat and that no one else ever found an entire continent until fairly recent times is, on the face of it, kinda ridiculous, IMHO. :’)
I think Australia should take that Great Reef out and bury ‘er. ;’)
The Great Barrier Reef is the world's largest tropical reef system, covering an area of 348,000 km2 and stretching along 2300km of the eastern Australian coastline. The Great Barrier Reef is made up of over 200 individual reefs and 540 inshore islands (many with fringing reefs). It is among the most complex ecosystems on the planet.
A navigation nightmare...
Fascinating post, thanks!
There is a local historian (Waiatarua, New Zealand) who has claimed that, based on petroglyphs near Taupo, the Phoenicians had discovered both Oz and NZ and had established viable settlements in both places, round about the time of the great Taupo volcanic explosion.
While this sounds far out, his theory is plausible, and the petroglyphs near Taupo require explaining to the contrary. No Maori ever carved them, and one appears to be a fairly adequate map of the world (with huge allowances for perspective).
Others say the Celts were here first, and there are good reasons to believe that this could be so, too.
I have no difficulty believing his theory. The Phoenicians, the Vikings, the Celts were rollicking good seafaring stock who thought nothing of launching forth into the horizon in seaworthy contraptions, perhaps destined to never see home again and settle where they may.
So why not? The plain fact with Oz and NZ it was a case of finders-keepers-losers-weepers, and it matters not tuppence who found it first: the Brits kept whatever they found and settled it efficiently.
Fred, your map explains it all!
They went down while rounding the island, but continued on foot in an attempt to reach their destination: The Dunwich Whore!
They would have made it too, if Cthulhu hadn’t eaten them, one by one, in the swamp.
1st off, it is very possible that anyone, anywhere, could be carrying just about anything. They could happen to have change in their purses. Why would it be shocking that some things Europeans would have in Europe or in their settlements, from whence they shoved off, would be on their persons in a strange land?
2nd, coin-collecting was not a big thing until the late 19th century. Sure, some people bothered with it prior, but it just wasn’t a big deal until then. So while the coin may indicate a fool losing a neat old piece in the last century, it’s doubtful it would have been “dropped” by someone who happend to collect in the previous century or 2.
3rd, the coin was in several inches of earth. Not knowing the exact circumstances of the ground when found, assuming everything seemed “natural” and undisturbed, this would indicate natural erosion and shifting such that the coin ended up buried from simply being dropped, exposed to the open.
Thanks!
Ancient Celtic / Scottish Viking sites in New Zealand!(?)
The Little Doctors & Martin Doutre | October 2003
Posted on 04/11/2006 9:19:16 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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