Preservation inlet

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21-03-2023, 04:58 PM
Robojaz

Preservation inlet

Hi all, does anyone out there have the contact details for Kisbee lodge? Thanks.
21-03-2023, 05:41 PM
shift14

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Amazing history in that area.

2011.

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Some of the guys diving found the anchor. Popped it out of the seabed filling 44 gallon drum with air out of their regs. We built a huge fire over it and burned all the rubbish off it. Was smothered with preservative after we left.

Pysegur Light is worth a look, and Sealers Creek.

B
21-03-2023, 08:35 PM
MCCPRO

Have always wanted to get there. Not even for a hunt just for the location.

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21-03-2023, 09:38 PM
MCCPRO

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Awesome place.
It's cool watching the sea roll in by the lighthouse when there's a big swell running.

Hopefully one day!

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22-03-2023, 07:21 AM
shift14

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Originally Posted by 7mmwsm

Awesome place.
It's cool watching the sea roll in by the lighthouse when there's a big swell running.

Yes. When my son and I stayed down at the Lighthouse “oil store” there was a 7m swell running. Deafening. Yet inside the inlet it was calm. Amazing to think two families lived at the Light when it was manned.

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22-03-2023, 08:08 AM
XR500

Got flown in by Bill Black in the late 1990's. Armed with a rubber duck, 15hp obm and 150L of gas. Plus three history books of the place. It was amazing to see the picture the artist made of James Cook's Resolution moored to a big tree bough to prepare for observing the Transit of Venus, then jump in the rubber duck, go around the corner and see the tree in the inlet...just as in the painting!!!
22-03-2023, 08:39 AM
Lucky

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Originally Posted by XR500

Got flown in by Bill Black in the late 1990's. Armed with a rubber duck, 15hp obm and 150L of gas. Plus three history books of the place. It was amazing to see the picture the artist made of James Cook's Resolution moored to a big tree bough to prepare for observing the Transit of Venus, then jump in the rubber duck, go around the corner and see the tree in the inlet...just as in the painting!!!

Incredible !
22-03-2023, 09:14 AM
shift14

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Originally Posted by XR500

Got flown in by Bill Black in the late 1990's. Armed with a rubber duck, 15hp obm and 150L of gas. Plus three history books of the place. It was amazing to see the picture the artist made of James Cook's Resolution moored to a big tree bough to prepare for observing the Transit of Venus, then jump in the rubber duck, go around the corner and see the tree in the inlet...just as in the painting!!!

The area oozes history. Cromarty township had a school, stores, pubs, everything.

We saw the tramway with wooden rails, the horizontal brick chimney running up a ridge, and the old boilers fired to run the pumps to drain the mines that went under the seabed. FFS !!

Years of sweat and toil , taken back by nature.

B