My Next Project

This is something that I have wanted to write for several years, but only a few months ago managed to find enough information to create a story from.

Imagine a sailing ship leaving England on her first voyage in the early 1900′s, during what was to become the last true days of sail.

On her voyage to Australia, the cargo catches fire more than once, and the crew spent over a month trying to put the fires out, while all the time at sea in the Atlantic.

It’s a fateful voyage, as on her return voyage the ship hits a reef on a small island in The Pacific and sinks.

The ship and it’s voyage have virtually passed into history, and there is virtually no information about it on the internet.

I only know about the voyage and the name of the ship because I have a paper that mentions the shipwreck, and this was the first voyage that my grandfather took as a young sailor.

I hope to have the story completed in the coming weeks.

If you like stories of sailing ships and shipwrecks, then I hope this will be right up your alley.

Ocean Front Property Takes On A New Meaning

Have you heard of the Pacific Ocean Vortex or Pacific Ocean Garbage Dump?

It’s a phenomenon that was not discovered until a few years ago, but apparently the ocean currents around the world have the effect of causing anything that floats in the ocean to accumulate in a few areas of ocean, one of which is an area of the Pacific Ocean that is twice the size of Texas, or to put it another way, the land area of France and Spain combined.

Much of the content of this humongous pile of garbage is plastics, which are causing heaps of problems for sea life, not only fish but also birds, such as the Albatros.

A Dutch company has obtained financing to build a recycling facility at this site, with the intent of turning the recycled plastics into land that is not only habitable, but they plan to grow crops, harvest seaweed for medicines etc, and to make this island more or less self sufficient.

It all sounds like something out of a science fiction book, but it’s real.

You can read more about this fascinating story HERE.