Comments for Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com Journeys ... Tue, 21 May 2013 22:21:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Currie Harbour by Lois http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/21/currie-harbour/#comment-3790 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:21:55 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9394#comment-3790 It looks so elegant…. when you think of the time it must have taken from the realisation there was need of a lighthouse, to drawing plans and realising it couldn’t be made from local materials, to sending back to Britain, to it being manufactured there…. then shipped back, then erected…. It must have been years and years. We are so used to everything being almost instant it is interesting to reflect on a time when it wasn’t so.
MY great-grandfather was born in in Tasmania, so he would have been there when the lighthouse was planned, but emigrated to England before it was completed.
Great photo and as ever an interesting text.

]]> Comment on Currie Harbour by Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/21/currie-harbour/#comment-3786 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:21:35 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9394#comment-3786 Yes it does contrast with the fishing boats and it’s almost Art Deco. It must have been very different in 1880.

]]> Comment on Currie Harbour by arranqhenderson http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/21/currie-harbour/#comment-3784 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:27:10 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9394#comment-3784 Interesting. There is something very modern, almost space-aged, about that iron light house. Beautiful construction.

]]> Comment on Currie Harbour by From Dusk Till Dawn | Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/21/currie-harbour/#comment-3781 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:34:13 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9394#comment-3781 […] Currie Harbour (Tas) […]

]]> Comment on Port Arthur by Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/17/port-arthur/#comment-3763 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:44:37 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9342#comment-3763 Thanks very much, Lois

]]> Comment on Port Arthur by Lois http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/17/port-arthur/#comment-3762 Mon, 20 May 2013 12:27:39 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9342#comment-3762 great photos, and as usual great stories too!

]]> Comment on Maatsuyker Island by Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/19/maatsuyker-island/#comment-3756 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:48:53 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9380#comment-3756 Definitely somewhere you don’t forget. It’d be a great place to hang out for a month or so, explore the island & rocks and observe the weather.

]]> Comment on Maatsuyker Island by gpcox http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/19/maatsuyker-island/#comment-3755 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:20:12 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9380#comment-3755 Nature manipulates nothing into such beautiful and mysterious creations.

]]> Comment on Maatsuyker Island by From Dusk Till Dawn | Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/19/maatsuyker-island/#comment-3752 Sun, 19 May 2013 12:08:29 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9380#comment-3752 […] Maatsuyker Is (Tas) […]

]]> Comment on Ben Boyd’s Lighthouse by Murray Foote http://murrayfoote.com/2013/05/04/ben-boyds-lighthouse/#comment-3746 Sat, 18 May 2013 16:20:30 +0000 http://murrayfoote.com/?p=9188#comment-3746 Useful additional information. Thanks for that.

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