Month: April 2019

The Solway Lass is a historic tall ship cruising the Whitsunday Island. The “Stina’ as she was first called was built of German Blue Steel in 1902 in Holland for a German Shipping Company to be used as a coastal trader in the rough North Sea. Renamed “Adolf”, she was seized by the British at […]

When he was about 12 years old, my son Paul wrote a letter to Steve Irwin in the far away country of Oz, asking if he could work at Australia Zoo when he was older. Several months later Paul received a big fat letter from Australia Zoo telling him that they normally give preference to […]