Wreck on Long Island The - Upstreampaddle

In 1983 the Maritime archaeology section of the Queensland Museum excavated the Long Island wreck site (photo above).
Readers may recall the description in the Sydney Gazette, of " getting the ship on the ways of fir". This referred to laying logs
on the sand, cross-wise under the keel, for support. The Museum excavation found logs of she-oak (casuarina) under the keel
remnants of the Happy Bay wreck..
image:© Courtesy Queensland Museum
Happy Bay,
Long Island,
Whitsundays.
photo:
anthony maw
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