The Ruins of the Cape St. George Lighthouse.
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- Welcome to the first of a new series of 'Australian Historical Walkthrough' videos where we travel all over the country highlighting significant National and State Historical Sites. These videos will be available on both NQ Explorers and our new crossover channel - NQE Overland. Thanks for watching, subscribing and commenting! Warren and Colleen.
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Fascinating and beautifully told..Thanks Warren!
Nice work mate. Thanks for taking us along. 👍🏼
Great stuff Warren, more please!
Great video Warren. Looking forward to others. I love you detecting videos as well
Thanks Warren, very informative, 👍
Good video & great history, thank you.
If this video is any indication, I am going to greatly enjoy your new endeavor! Thank you so much for doing this, as I love your country, and don't think I will ever get to visit most of the places you are going to see and video. Thank you!
Very interesting!
Great video!!
How wonderful to see once again the South Pacific and the beautiful country around there. It was wonderful to see the site and hear the history behind it, thank you Warren as my family said it would be too much for me to get there and now I've seen it. I was so happy to hear the bell bird at the beginning of the video, the last time I heard them was 2009, I haven't been able to travel since then. I look forward to seeing what else you show us as I love history. Take care Warren and Colleen, good luck and happy fossicking Mary-Ellen UK
Thanks for such a nice video on the history of this lighthouse. I love lighthouses and their history. I was fortunate enough to be able to do historical research about the first lighthouses built on the West Coast of the U.S., in 1853. Same type of govermental bungling occured then too. It could fill a book. Wrong places, wrong type of towers and sizes, because the government changed to freznel lenses after the contractor built the towers. They wouldn't fit the old style tower, so they had to be rebuilt. Then the ship carrying the parts for the last three lighthouses sank in the mouth of the Columbia river, off the coast of Oregon. Fortunately the crew was saved but the lighthouse parts were a total loss. Needless to say the contractor for the lighthouses went bankrupt, and the fight for their money from the government went on for years. We are fortunate that several of the lightouses still stand today and have become tourist destinations. Fortunately they aren't nearly as remote from civilization as yours is, but believe me in 1853 they would have been.
There is a weird connection to my familly through this shipwreck. The ship that wrecked was known as the Oriole, she was a large barque out of Baltimore, Maryland. When she broke up going over the bar at the mouth of the Columbia river the tidè pulled her out to sea. She was dragged 75 miles south and came ashore at Netarts Bay, near Tillamook, Oregon. The Indians there had rights of salvage for shipwrecks at that time and place. They sold canvas and iron tackle parts to the early pioneers of Tillamook, from off the Oriole, who were building a sloop to carry their milk and cheese to Portland, Oregon. One of those builders was my 4th grt. Grandpa, Rev. Israel Ludlow Clark. The sloop was named the Morning Star. A replica of this small ship stands today in front of the Tillamook Cheese Factory in Tillamook, Oregon. As a reminder of its istory. From such small beginnings a large corporation grew, but without the salvaged parts from the lighthouse carrier Oriole, it might never have been at all.
that was awesome info ! cool facts! very interesting !
Cool. Thanks.
Great video and very informative!! Thank you for sharing it with us!! I also subscribed to Overland! Happy Holidays to you and Colleen!!
What a great video. This area was originally Jervis Bay Village, Jervis Bay Territory. The lighthouse was built in the wrong place because the contractor put it 4 klms north of its intended site because it was closer to the quarry he was getting the stone from!
Cool Warren did not know about that place
I surfed the east coast
And Jarvis bay has a great surf spot
Called summer cloud bay and also known as Aust pipeline
Thanks for the tour
Have a great Xmas and happy new year to you and Colleen and family
Crouch
Cool, love old buildings👍
Enjoyed that. Especially the accurate detail that it is part of the original Federal Capital Territory now known as the Australian Capital Territory or the ACT (pronounce each letter) where Canberra is. and where I am. :)
Found it on Google Earth. Jervis Bay is quite the harbour!
Hi Warren, Thanks for the trip. I have been into that site and you are right it is a great part of our maritime history. I spent hours there walking around in amazement of thee life that the staff would had lived. The death of that little girl would had been a sad time for everyone involved being such a small tight knit community.
This new channel that you and Collen are starting will be great, my dream retirement, things happened will not be now.
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year. Dennis
Clicked on the link and subscribed Warren :)
Thanks for the video! great stuff... why does 4k look pixelated?
Great Exploring Video Warren! That was an awesome view from the cliffs!
What a beautiful view from there. Thanks for sharing the history and taking us along on another great adventure. Good luck, happy hunting and take care.
I loved this video! I'm always hunting down historic sites, so I find it fascinating to see historic parts of Australia. Wow, that lighthouse was cursed from the get-go... a contractor building a lighthouse where it's convenient for him, along with all the other illegalities it's incredible! But it seems to have set the tone for tragedies on land and sea. What a history story! Thank you, Warren, for a great tour!
Very enjoyable - looking forward to making lots of historical discoveries with you! Thank you.
This was very interesting Warren. I doubt I will ever get to visit someplace like this so you are bringing these experiences to the world. Thank you.
Totally enjoyed watching & awesome views,thks for sharing 🤜🏻🤛🏻👍
Nice one just down the road from were i live now .ACT Jervis Bay Spent time as a young lad at HMAS Creswell Naval College base .My father Did four years duty there wonderful place to live .Cheers.
nice ! :) A1
You know you were itching to start swinging haha , nice presentation
Wonderful scenery, educational and another example of how politics can effect outcomes negatively anywhere in the world. Sometimes even the best of intentions can backfire. Always sad to see tax payers money misused a live effected negativity. Nice production.
A terrific new concept Warren and very informative. You might be aware that the proposed 1969 site for Australia's first nuclear power station is not far from Cape St. George light at Murrays Beach. It never got off the ground.
We're interested mate Cheers Phil and Lesley
Down in my territory are you souyth for long? ian
Let's lock it up and not maintain it, in order to maintain it of course. 😫
Very cool vid, thank you for sharing.
I think I counted 4 flies eaten in the making of this great video. lol Seriously though, nice video. May have to check out the other channel you created.