what do you mean, a Plantaganet?
I find this:
"The Loch Ard's cargo included a range of luxury goods, including a large decorative porcelain peacock made by Minton in England, intended to be displayed in the Melbourne International Exhibition in 1880. Remarkably, the peacock was recovered completely intact and was eventually able to be displayed a century later for the Victoria Pavilion at the Brisbane 1988 World Exposition. It is now on display at the Flagstaff Hill Maritime Museum in Warrnambool, along with a number of other relics of the wreck.”
It must have been well wrapped.
And now I remember seeing that huge porcelain peacock in the museum…
Max
On Mar 25, 2015, at 2:29, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> She and her ilk are there or thereabouts most days, Max. High heels, pouts, bewilderment at boyfriends and family gazing at natural beauty. Rocky Apostles were never twelve in number really from the shore. Maybe from everpresent hovering helicopters ferrying tourists. From the lookouts, there appear to be about seven extant. More at The Martyrs and Bay of Islands, some of them smaller but still jutting perpendicularly. At Gibson's Steps, you can get down to beach level still, walkable from London Bridge viewing area.
>
> Read Don Charlwood's account of the wreck of the Loch Ard in 1878, with only two survivors, one, Pearce, a cabin boy and the other, Irish Eva Carmichael, a passenger who clung to a spar in the rough waters for three hours and was rescued by Pearce. Melbourne crowds loved it and hoped the two might couple up but Eva, a Plantagenet, was having none of it and steamed back to Ireland.
>
> Cheers,
> Bill
>
>
>> On 25 Mar 2015, at 9:22 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> a poem to drool over, Bill.
>>
>> Is she still there?
>>
>> I know one of the Twelve Apostles crumbled into the ocean a while back.
>>
>> And when I followed your link below - visit victoria - I came up with this:
>>
>> The beach access steps at Bay of Martyrs remain closed for public safety due to damage caused by high seas in 2014.
>> at Bay of Martyrs
>> Wednesday 28 January, 2015 |
>> Max in Seattle
>>
>>> On Mar 24, 2015, at 14:12, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Blonde at The Bay of Martyrs
>>>
>>> Tha fuck
>>> yawl gawping at?
>>>
>>> Buncha ol rocks
>>> all chipped away
>>>
>>> Crappy big waves
>>> shootin spray n the air
>>>
>>> Sky's same blue
>>> it was yesterday
>>>
>>> Check out this tight orange top
>>> these smooth brown legs
>>>
>>> Why uncha awl
>>> like ya normally do,
>>>
>>> (curls
>>> lips)
>>>
>>> droolin
>>> over me?
>>>
>>> bw
>>>
>>> http://www.visitvictoria.com/Regions/Great-Ocean-Road/Things-to-do/Nature-and-wildlife/National-parks-and-reserves/Bay-of-Islands-Coastal-Park.aspx
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