On Saturday I spied a tweet saying that an old ship was going to be docked at Southbank for the weekend.
Upon further investigation, I discovered it was the Notorious, a replica 15th Century Spanish caravel.
As I'm a big fan of all things nautical, we headed in to the city to take a look. Apparently it has been part of the filming of the new Pirates of the Caribbean movie at the Gold Coast.
It was so tiny! It blew my mind to think this is the kind of ship those explorers in the Age of Discovery sailed across the world in!
A guy from Port Fairy built it. Imagine that dream. One day waking up and deciding you're going to scratch-build a historical sailing ship!
There's a story there's a ship like this wrecked off the coast of Victoria. If so it would predate most Dutch exploration of this area of the world. What a good mystery! I'm going to have to find out more.
Have you ever been on a sailing ship? Yo ho!
Hi, I'm Sarah! I'm 33 and searching for my passion.
Until then, I slog away in a cubicle working full-time and focus on enjoying my downtime with things like TV (my old friend), movies, twitter, (trying to) cook, reading and hanging out with my hubby. My head is turned by things like vintage homewares, stationery, chocolate and scrapbooking. I blog about whatever takes my fancy.
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