Tranquil WEE Places you have visited in MN

[Captain Kong]

Hi Davey,
In the Polynesian alphabet there is only 13 letters. We have twenty six.
Back down there again in February, The only place left on the planet that is worth going to.
All the islands are beautiful tranquil places. Papeete, Tahiti is now a fairly big Town now, but the rest of Tahiti Nui and Tahiti Iti , are realy beautiful. as are the Tahitian Women, no wonder they mutinied on the Bounty, I shall also visit my tooth that was extracted by my Dentist Mr Christian in Bolton, and buried next to the Bounty Memorial rock on Matavai Bay, That is where the Bounty lay for six months waiting for the bread fruit season. I planted my tooth under a bread fruit tree next to it near Mr Christians name on the Rock. So a part of me will always be in Tahiti.
Moorea just across the water from Papa, nine miles, a paradise and so is Bora Bora.
Moorea was used in the `Mutiny on The Bounty ` films, so you can see what it is like, I was swimming in a blue lagoon there with the Stingrays and black tipped Sharks Fantastic. Been several times and have a few Tahitian and Moorean mates there, they all love the beer and we have great parties. One of them, Manuraii Young is a direct decendent of Mr Midshipman Edward Young who tooks a Taitian wife to Pitcairnes Island after the Mutiny.
So off again in Feb.
Cheers
Brian.

[John Arton]

The most scenic place with the nicest people I ever visited was a small port on the Island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. We were loading nickel shot there in a small harbour with a two street town where every shop had an advert for Guiness outside. A sailing boat came in and it was owned and run by a brit who carried all sorts of odds and ends of cargo around the islands and out as far a s polynesia. He had a fantastic lifestyle, just him, 2 deck hands plus his lady on board just sailing around picking up any cargo he could. Ashore the people were dead friendly and you could get a fantastic Nasi Goering cooked before you on the street for next to nothing.
After that Punta Delgada in the Azores is really nice but favourite of all has to be any of the ports on Vancouver Island. Nanaimo, Alberni, Chemainus, even Harmac. Loved them all when I was there in the early 70's.
rgds
JA

[Calvin Kent]

One of the most tranquil places I visited was a tiny bay in New Caledonia. I'm not sure we were even meant to be there but after bunkering in Noumea we wandered up the coast and anchored so the engineroom could pull a piston. Just a tiny fishing village, canoes and longlines, and not even a bar or shop. We lowered the lifeboats and spent a pleasant few days sailing, swimming, and fishing with the wooden-boxed Daiwa combi fishing kits some of us had bought in Japan. Well that's how the deck crowd spent the weekend. I did notice the odd engineer coming up for a blow, wiping his brow with a bit of cotton waste before disappearing back into the bowels again..

Another was an island in the Bahamas where we loaded salt. Apart from a few guys that were boated in to flood the lagoons and scrape up the salt the island was uninhabited. Untrodden silver sands covered in conch shells, flatties in the shallows that would lift up if you walked too close and then re-bury themselves a few feet away. Azure blue sea and cloudless skies. A couple of cases of tennants and some roast chickens and other bits and pieces we cadged out of the cook and we were in paradise. The only damper was not getting back to the boat before the mozzies came out, we were eaten alive.

Just a couple that stand out among many

Regards
Calvin

[happy daze john in oz]

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and of course being the gentleman that you were you could not disapoint a lady so you did not protest.

[Lou Barron]

DUNEDIN in NZ thatswhy i still live there

[Ron Kendall]

Lulea in Sweden, is frozen over in the winter, and that is why Narvik is used all year round for the export of Swedish iron ore. During the 2nd world war, it was normal procedure, fora British ship, and a German ship to be on the same jetty loading. both Norway and Sweden were neutral, and business is business! As for Pepel, up the creeks from Freetown, the jetty featured in a Quiz question some time ago that I won. The most out of the way iron ore place I have been to, on the Redcar, was Wabana, Bell Isle, Newfoundland, nowt their, only a conveyor, and a bloke in a shooting brake, who came down selling wrangler jeans etc. The place is completely derelict now, as the iron ore mines have closed Happy Days!

[john sutton]

diamante up the river parana in argentine.One coal berth one bar and a brothel with two women and one bed.that was 53 might have two beds by now
john sutton

[Gulliver]

..... and a bloke in a shooting brake, who came down selling wrangler jeans etc. The place is completely derelict now, as the iron ore mines have closed Happy Days!

Shooting Brake. What a lovely quintessentially English term and evocative of those bygone days...like char-a banc .Even if we did borrow it from La France.! Now, even the term motor car is hardly ever used today ,just the brief word ---car. What a shame !

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Perhaps a 'shooting brake' these days would be imagined by the younger generations to conjure up a vision of a high-powered BMW driven by two hoodies in south London, slamming the brakes on ,pointing a gun out of the window and committing a drive-by assassination.


I so desire to go 60 years back in time....

[Captain Kong]

This is a proper Charabanc, Davey.
"We`re all going to Blackpool"
One of my relatives is on this photo

[Captain Kong]

I believe the coach of this vehicle lifted off and then it converted to a Lorry then at weekends it was reversed back into a Charanc.
Brian