[Previous entry: "GIANT QUEENSLAND GROPER ... called 'grouper' overseas"] [Next entry: "REEF WAVE UNDERWATER .... Great Detached Reef"]
07/08/2007: "HISTORIC LEAD INGOTS ...... Charles Eaton (wreck site)"
Ben and Wally Gibbins came to Great Detached Reef in the mid 1970's aboard Beva to located several shipwrecks from the early colony days of Australia. In those times ships sailing back to England ran incredible risks navigating around and through coral reefs.
Eventually a primitive lighthouse (without a light) was erected on nearby Raine Island some 15 nautical miles to the north.
These lead ship's ballast ingots are of the Charles Eaton shipwreck, today in five meters of water, in the surf zone.
Nearby an anchor with a single broken fluke - I wonder, could this the very reason why the anchor failed - and this ship went aground? It would have to be part of the problem.
