Norfolk Island.

[HansE]

Just returned Quick post had no WiFi Lots of pictures. So far liked these the best.

#1 Young Norfolk Pine


#2


#3 At the entrance of Govt House Looking twards the prisoners baracks.

[Isac]

A lovely place to visit Hans. I had a lot of dealings with the Christian-Bailey family who are a large family there. They were an agency that sold and installed our large steel water tanks. Nice photos BTW. Plenty of pics to come I would guess.

[HansE]

Lots here are a couple more.

[HansE]

#4


#5 Anson Bay



#6


#7 Royal Engineers Office with boat used for unloading cargo from larger ships.

[Isac]

Amazing photos to compliment an amazing and unique place Hans. TFS. Looking forward to more. That camera seems to be behaving itself and giving some excellent results.

[HansE]

The camera will hopefully do what I would like it to do

[Isac]

... as it should.

[HansE]

Walking on the mountain. It is an old volcano called Mt Pitt. Close byis Mt Bates where there was a Radar installation in WWII This is what I found.
#8


#9 Many of the trees have this moss remanicant of the moss seen in The southern states of America.



#10 The old cemetary was an interesting place. Note spelling of Christian.



#11Ball bay. Where Boral was busy importing rock for the airport runway as the local rock is not good enough. They were building a landing pier behind the trees to be demolished later.




#12 Bloody bridge the stories are disputed.


#13 Rugged coast showing why you cant land a boat.



#14 Kingston where the original settlements were. Showing the reef that caught out the Sirius.



#15 Showing more of the reef from the pier. Looking towards Emily bay and the old pine.



#16 Looking towards the pier and old settlement buildings from within the goal. The ruined building was where grain was ground by hand as punishment.

[Grumpy John]

A lovely series of images Hans. Norfolk Island is a place that I've wanted to visit for a long time.

[HansE]

It is a small but very interesting and beautiful island. Have been looking up answers to lots of questions on Google. Definitely recommend a visit.

[HansE]

There was also a botanic garden.

[HansE]

This ship arrived and was there for a few days being unloaded.


A closer look had twenty people in the frame. This must be expensive.

[Isac]

Fabulous story with pics Hans. It is definitely a beautiful place. I don't think the Fletcher was the one that lead the Mutiny on the Bounty. Might be a relation though. It used to cost about $3000 to ship one of our tanks to Norfolk so yeah, freight is expensive.

[HansE]

You can see why it was so expensive when it would take twenty blokes to offload it. The boat is sometimes there for days before they can offload because of conditions.

[HansE]

That Canon 70-200 F2.8 allows for some serious cropping. It's a shame that I didn't wait to buy one so I could have had the new RF model to suit the EOS R .

[Isac]

Probably are related. Obviously the headstone was not made by someone who was a master of the Queens English!
There was always delays with loading and unloading because of bad weather, which added to the cost.
Canon RF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM - excellent lens, not for someone on a pension though

[HansE]

There were a number of huge Moreton Bay fig trees

Looks like the Norfolk Pine is about to be incorporated into the fig.

[Isac]

I love the light you took these in Hans, really shows off the huge valleys and peaks and also the fine detail. Lovely work and great to see you've done some research on the places you've visited.

[HansE]

I did go back the next day to catch a bit more light. It sure was an impressive sight when you first see it. The thick canopy lowers light levels condiderably as well. Took a swag of images with a few good ones.

[HansE]

Looking at the old barracks and the top lh shows the old prison walls.

[Isac]

Me too, it's a good advert for Norfolk! Lovely colour for the barracks "Baby Pink". Must have been chosen by the wives. Love the high POV as well

[HansE]

If you look at #2 and #3 #2is between the barracks and the building a bit further away. #3 is in the entrance to Gvt House in front of the Barrack entrance.

[Isac]

It all fits Hans.

[HansE]

Most of the island was covered in sub tropical rain forest.

[Isac]

Don't tell the vegan protest groups that they are killing rats, they'll be over there in a flash with placards.

[HansE]

I don't know if they kill them. I just know they have lots of traps.

[Isac]

You never know Hans, they may be considered a delicacy in those parts.

[HansE]

They did have some good looking cows Isac so I don't think rats would be high on the menu

[Isac]

I am enjoying your sense of humour Hans.

[HansE]

But in your defense. When the Sirius sank it put an extra 300 unintended people on the Island for which there was no food. They nearly made extinct a colony of about 200000 birds. Only a few left on a neighbouring island. I am sure they would have eaten rats if they caught them.

[Isac]

Great info there Hans. I'm happy that I didn't live in those times. Very hard life and it would make me very old indeed!
Here is 44 images of a model of the Sirius made by a navy man in 1937. Very intricate work.
https://collection.maas.museum/object/238337