Paradise Found by Captain John Borden Australia’s Whitsunday Islands Part II 20.10 S.Lat / 148.55 E.Lon I signed aboard the Golden Plover just in time for her annual haul-out.  John DeVere’s Coral Sea Line has its own modest facility on the mainland at Airlie Beach, constructed specifically to handle Plover’s enormous hull.  The simple rail […]

Paradise Found by Captain John Borden Australia’s Whitsunday Islands Part I 20.10 S.Lat / 148.55 E.Lon When Captain Cook and the crew of ENDEAVOR set sail in 1770, heading north from Botany Bay, they had placed an inexorable stake in mere faith.  It was both faith and imagination that brought James Cook and his three-masted […]