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19/06/2005: "THE FIRST TWELVE MONTHS ......"

The first entry featured this shot on 24 June 2004 - since then we've worked out a few tricks and made the pages more interesting. Thanks for the feedback folks. We repeat this picture with the extra text this time.

It's the Charles Eaton shipwreck site. The massacre story may not have been discovered had the cannibal's not traded a young white boy for a bunch of bananas at Murray Island (much further to the north and offshore). The boy was later rescued and the rest is history and a pretty grim tale too.

Death during ship travel 150+ years ago was often slow - sharks at sea or cannibals on the coast. Failing that, infection from the coral cuts and failing all those 'joys', sunburn.

(The Pandora shipwreck prisioners buried themselves up to their necks in sand to minimise the harsh rays of tropical far north Queensland, not such a bad thought now winter has arrived in southern Oz).