Impressive shot! Jack
--- On Thu, 12/10/09, Brian Walters <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Brian Walters <[email protected]> > Subject: PESO - 645 Seagulls > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 3:21 AM > G'day all > > Another one from my trip to Western Australia. > > At Geraldton there is a memorial to the sailors who were > lost off the WA > coast when the HMAS Sydney II was sunk in WW2. It's a > particularly > beautiful memorial and it's focal pint is a silver dome > with 645 silver > seagulls - one for each sailor lost. > > The memorial is even more significant now than in the past > - the wreck > of the Sydney (and the Kormoran, the German raider that > sank her) was > located in 2008, about 100 km off the coast at a depth of > 2,468 metres. > > > http://www.blognow.com.au/PESO/186421/645_Seagulls.html > > > > Cheers > > Brian > > ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > Brian Walters > Western Sydney Australia > http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ > -- > > > -- > http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
