amazing sights

[John Albert Evans]

Duke I think all galley boys did that myself included. They say you learn by your mistakes and you only ever did in once. Happy days.

John Albert Evans

[John Arton]

Vocano erupting in Indonesia, Hundreds of sperm wales in a feeding frenzy off Madagascar, Thousand Islands and the Bavarian Schloss that had been thransported stone by stone and rebuilt there, Saragasso Sea, Freezing Spray in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Icebergs in the N. Atlantic, Black Angel mine Greenland, TRollhatten and the Nowegian Fjiords,Any night in the Tropics on the 4-8 morning watch, Panama Canal, Table Mountain, Going up the River Severn to Sharpness, Iraqi jets attacking Kharg Island, eating monkeys brains in Indonesia, coming round the corner on a path leading from my hosts house on Papua New Guinea to be confronted by a young lady pushing her baby in a stroller just who acted just as if she was strolling down any high stret back in the U.K. grreting me with a "good morning beautiful weather is'nt it", tying up next to a chemical tanker in Singapore dockyards and seeing the results of an attack on it by an Iranian gun boat during the Iranian/Iraqi conflict, the accommodation was peppered by shell holes yet only one person was killed, North Atlantic Storms that made you wonder if you were ever going to make it through them, having the beejazus frightened out of you when a Russian submarine suddenly surfaced just metres away from you on a quite night in the Gulf Of Oman, frying eggs on steel deck whilst sitting bunkering in some god forsaken place in the Gulf Of Oman, Irmas bar in Antwerp and also Danny's Bar, Get Down Browns in Beaumont Texas, Manhatan Akyline by night when we were tied up on Green Street Wharf in Brooklyn just up from the Naval Yard (what a difference 1 mile could make), the Cathederal in Rouen, Great Wall of China and the Winter Palace in Bejing, all the floating fishermens houses on the approach to Tawau in Sarawak, Log ship in B.C. that discharges 18,000 tons of logs in seconds, engine room of the Port Hawkesbury which at that time had the biggest diesel engine ever built, and oh so many more that it would take an age to put down.
rgds
JA

[Duke Drennan]

Duke I think all galley boys did that myself included. They say you learn by your mistakes and you only ever did in once. Happy days.

John Albert Evans

We all learned the same lessons John, usually on our first trip.

[Louis the Amigo]

Hi shipmates, like many on this great forum I saw a small bit of the world? and some great bars ,What and where seems like a dream now. Dawn on an empty sea , dolipins ,flying fish, Whales and sharks all types of seabirds Ice burghs on a green sea, snow going thro a frozen sea, The Northern lights in Norway in the fiords, I have an old photo going into capetown, with myself and "Robbo" carrying a pilot ladder table top mountain in the back ground, will post it soon. I seem to remember more when I talk to my old shipmate laurie, after a few he can remember every thing about his time at sea {war time} so I listern to him.

[John Pruden]

one of the best sights is the liver buildings comeing out of the mist on the mersey after a long voyage you knew you were home?jp

[Jim Brady]

Your best sight must've been your pay off slip and the few bob that went with it.
Regards.
Jim.B.

[John Pruden]

Jim you couldn't get much with £2.00 subbed to death mam never even unpacked my cases i did a coast 3 days later either have a good time away or money at home i had a good time i think i got £25.00 channel money and a docking bottle of martell me and my dad soon polished that of and he give me a few bob to go out with the lads what times aye what times? jp

[happy daze john in oz]

Another site thta many never get to see id going up the Swedish fijords on the way to Lulea, all the small islands covered in snow and the sea begining to freeze over for the winter. Then seeing a small tanker in port that had been caught in the ice and crushed like a tin can. Then watching the ice breaker leading us out of port.

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Tony.
You and me, I was steering past Sicily with Mt Etna going up in smoke turned the ship half around to keep seeing it, the skipper said you may as well go right around Jenkins you nearly have .
Icebergs in the North Atlantic. A Russian ship doing the dance of the seven vails in a mirage in the Spencer Gulf in South Aus, Mother Carries chickens flitting over the ocean thousands of miles from shore. A Hurricane in the North Atlantic with seas 90feet and wondering if we would survive, but funny enough not caring. Both Panama and Suez Canals. Great shipmates, and then finding this great site of Brian's to bring it all back.
Cheers Des

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[Captain Kong]

In Australia there were and are many memorable sights,
To see the BIG PIT in Kalgoorlie, Gold Mine, the biggest hole in the world,
Ularu, the Rock changing colours at sunset, and in the caves underneath with the Abbo paintings from thousands of years ago.
The colours of the Great Barrier Reef, 40 shades of Turqoise.
A cup of tea in Whim Creek Pub, after travelling a round trip of 230 miles for a beer and the Pub had no beer, waiting the truck that was 2 weeks overdue.
Swimming with those beautiful giant whale Sharks off the Ningaloo Reef as they slide silently past before they headed south.
Those beautiful Blue Mountains where our Vernon lives.
A trek through Kings Canyon, with the heat and humidity and swift dehydration leaving you gasping for water before you collapse.
Sharing a camp with a Stockman in the Northern Territory he making us a real can of Billy Tea in the blackness of a starlit Desert night, followed by the sharing of a bottle of whisky. priceless.
Waking up in The Simpson Desert watching the sunrise from the stoop of your campervan, with a cup of tea.
Watching with envy all those beautiful young nubile young ladies in the briefest of Bikinis on the Beach on the Gold Coast. Dreaming of what might have been if only I was 50 years younger.
All Fantastic.
Thank you Australia.