Sunrise, topped of with a Tallship!

Hi John, yes we really appreciate living near the water now.I dont think we could move back inland after being here. Just did a google on the Endeavour, and apparently they are on their way back to Sydney from a Tallship gathering in Devonport Tas. Cheers Laurie.

Mr Fawlty,

If you ever get a chance, read Farley Mowat's book 'Ordeal by Ice'. He gives a really good perspective on the question you ask.

Matt.

Sorry Chucky but I just gotta ask this;

When you were on the Endevour is that where you got the name Chucky ? :-))

I was loaned posted to her around mid 95.

And my last name, as well as a bad night on Sambucca at the Coogee bay hotel got me the name.

Different ship in the pic though Chucky.

Matt.

Didn't you do a stint on the YE as well Matt?

Siloette(SP) does match.

But your right,

Just checked on the Young Endevour website and she is coming back from NZ at the moment.

Pete,

Four years all up including the world voyage in 92. Best kept secret in the Navy that one.

Matt.

Pretty ship too. I was her liaison officer for the bicentennial tall ships event. Wollongong also provided a loose anti piracy escort for her when she went to Indonesia for the 50th anniversary of independence.

We were supposed to loiter in her general vicinity while she transited the archipelago without being seen by the trainee crew. Bungy Williams was the CO then and invited us to swing past one afternoon. We came over the horizon at 'top of the green' and did some flashy turns and donuts before taking the trainees on an hours zoom around the ocean.

Burning diesel at 1.3 tonnes per hour was such fun!

Pete

You may not have seen it from Vincentia or Husky, as it was tucked right up near the Callala Bay end on that morning.cheers.