The Thread about Nothing....

swampy1970 said:

It was originally a 350 base model but now has the ZZ502 crate motor in it. 1 liter per cylinder - and it seems like it drinks that much in petrol!

So, I take it it's an eight litre motor and it puts out what kind of HP??

62vette said:

Nah, half way up the North Island. Mind you people 350km North of me felt it. Biggest quake in 8 or 9 years I think. The previous bigger quake was in Fiordland, many kms from any populated areas.

My sister who is in the middle of packing to move from Wellington to Oamaru (South Island) was lucky all of her good china was already packed up in boxes. My nephew also in Wellington had a [censored] night with his toddler up half the night with every after shock.

My brother is up your way at the moment doing the whole Te Araroa. It's weird getting calls from him and reading his blog in the middle of a hike as the hikes he does are normally in the middle of nowhere like the McMillans Walking Track.

I came across this plaque whilst on holidays last year and it was something I had never heard of.

Sydney Cove Wreck 1797

In February 1797, a vessel named the “Sydney Cove” was ship wrecked on Preservation Island between Tasmania and the Australia Mainland. On 28th February the long boat was equipped and dispatched in an effort to reach Port Jackson with news of the wreck. On board this small boat was Mr. Thomas – Chief Mate, Mr. Clarke – supercargo, 3 European seaman and twelve Lascars (labourers from India/Asia).

However ill fortune was still to be their lot and after a few days at sea, the boat was also wrecked and the men were cast ashore somewhere on 90 Mile Beach on the Victorian Coast. They were able to collect some food, including some rice from the wreck and these 17 seaman started to walk on 15 March 1797 along the Coast in an endeavor to find their way back to Port Jackson.

Only an imperfect record of their trails and setbacks was kept by Mr. Clarke – who kept an incomplete diary written in pencil. It was later published in a Calcutta Newspaper. The shipwreck sailors traveled thought the Ulladulla District.

Extracts from Historical Records of NSW page 767. Mr. Clarke – supercargo – ‘Wreck of the Sydney Cove 1797’. Notes in brackets have been placed by Cathy Dunn.

April 20th – Got over the river (Clyde River) and had a long walk, about 18 miles through an immense wood, the plain of which was covered with long grass. We had the good fortune this day to have a friendly native in company, who undertook to be a guide, by whose good – natured assistance we were able to avoid several high points and cut deal of ground.

April 21st – Had a pleasant walk for about 14 miles, during which we met a party of natives who gave us plenty of fishes. It seems they had met the Moor whose friendship was experienced yesterday, and were by him informed of our distress, so that we were indebted to that kind-hearted fellow for his guidance and this days protection.

April 22nd – The natives accompanied us a few miles and returned, leaving us a plentiful supply of fish. This day we walked 12 miles.

April 23rd, 24th, 25th – Walked 10 or 12 miles each day, without meeting any natives, and wholly without nourishment also perished for want.

April 26th – (Jervis Bay) – “a very deep bay”

April 30th – (Shoalhaven River) – “largest river we had met”

The final chapter of this tale was that about the middle of the month of May 1797, some miles south of Botany Bay, the 3 surviving men – Mr. Clarke, a European sailor and a Lascar was picked up in a deplorable state by a fishing boat and taken to Sydney. On which a rescue boat was sent to Bass Strait to the “Sydney Cove”

http://www.ulladulla.info/sydney-cove-wreck-1797

Why didn't the dumb [censored] just walk up the south gippsland highway, then straight through the roundabout onto the princes hey at Sale?

classic1 said:

Why didn't the dumb [censored] just walk up the south gippsland highway, then straight through the roundabout onto the princes hey at Sale?

GPS malfunction?

But wait there is more.....

The schooner Francis and the sloop Eliza were dispatched to Preservation Island to collect the people remaining there and salvage the ship's cargo. While waiting for rescue, the survivors had lived on the local short-tailed shearwaters, also called Australian muttonbirds, and built rough shelter for themselves. But the ship was damaged in May by heavy westerly gales, making it impossible to save her.

On the return journey the Francis and Eliza became separated and the Eliza was wrecked, with the loss of her crew and eight of the Sydney Cove survivors. The Francis made a further salvage voyage in December and again in January 1798. Matthew Flinders was aboard
third voyage, assigned to make geographical observations. He noted petrels and seals, and located and named the Kent Group of islands.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Cove_(ship)

and even more..... On the wreck they have salvaged the world' oldest beer!

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/tv/catalyst/catalyst_s17_ep18_beer.mp4

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/4481385.htm

The called the islands the Kent group because someone said it was a Kent of a place

This one's just for you Beepers.... a favour in return for all the fabulous music clips you bless us with.

You're welcome.

My ears! I lasted 24 seconds.

It's not that bad. It's only mildly lame. The video is great.

Does anyone know about a cyclist having a big stack on Baw Baw last weekend? A bloke from work went for a hoon up there and saw the aftermath. He wasn't sure if the rider had collapsed going up or wiped out decending. He thought the latter. There were a heap of motorbike riders there so he kept going and rang 000 at the top of Baw Baw

Personally, I wouldn't decsend the [censored] unless I had a deathwish

paulambry said:

This one's just for you Beepers.... a favour in return for all the fabulous music clips you bless us with.

You're welcome.

Teehee. Um, thanks. Cnut.

Like I said, you're welcome. Cnut.

DPF.

Mrs Brady.

What a [censored] show the Brady Bunch was. The Patridge Family pooed on it from a great height

Susan Dey. Massif crush.

As for Danny Bonnadouchebag. Peerless [censored].

His comic timing on the partridge family was excellent

DPF - Fidel Castro

I was in the US when Castro died... that's somewhat not that very interesting.

Who had him in the dead pool? Nobody? Bahhhh

(Posted from somewhere between the US and Hawaii... 40,000 feet)