Archive for year: 2021
So many cute little white things bobbing about our ocean lately. First, Pressure Drop and now, M/Y White Rabbit. Well,…
‘Our’ Tim Winton sets the scene nicely - ‘The building twitched in the wind, gave off its perpetual clank and moan of pipes, letting out the odd muffled scream.
The WA State Energy Minister, Bill Johnston, has announced this afternoon that South Fremantle Power Station is to be sold…
Yet another poem has arrived in the inbox. Thank you! Particularly like the line - ‘Mists wisping slowly through the…
Sailing under the flag of the Cook Islands, 84 metre trimaran pleasure yacht, White Rabbit, is the largest aluminium super…
‘The hour should be the evening and the season winter’, writes Virginia Woolf in her 1930 essay Street Haunting: A…
We often marvel at the strange and wonderful names horses race under, but what about the names pleasure craft, and…
Over a year ago, we here at the Shipping News made some bold predictions about the future of the cruise…
Bruce Pascoe’s Dark Emu is in the news again, with the publication of a new book critiquing Pascoe’s arguments. Dark…
I recently visited Harvey, 140 kilometres south of Perth, and came across Stirling Cottage. Stirling Cottage is in the gardens…