Monday, 21 March 2011

Burke and Wills - the Final Hours

The doomed journey of Burke and Wills interests me a lot - in fact, this blog became rather Burke and Wills focussed for a while last year, as you can see here and here and here. The story is one of the things I am mildly obsessed by, which is why I was glad to see this cartoon the other day - it's always good to have the things you take a bit too seriously made fun of, I think:

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6 comments:

  1. worm21 March 2011 at 09:54

    love it!!

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  2. zmkc22 March 2011 at 00:58

    Worm - this is completely irrelevant, but I just saw it and then saw your comment and I think it's the kind of thing that interests you: http://knstrct.com/2011/03/travel-norway-the-architectural-way/

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  3. Polly22 March 2011 at 01:47

    David says that he thought it was a horrid tragedy too, brought to life by "The Dig Tree" - have you read it? http://www.amazon.com/Dig-Tree-Insanity-Discover-Australias/dp/0767908287

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  4. zmkc22 March 2011 at 12:21

    It's a great sad book - made even sadder by the fact its author died either just before or just after it was published, at a very young age.

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  5. worm23 March 2011 at 17:02

    thanks for the link Z, and you are completely right, thats exactly the sort of thing I like!

    I did go to norway once for 24 hours, but I only saw the inside of nightclubs in Oslo

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  6. zmkc23 March 2011 at 22:27

    24 hours? That is crazy. Mind you, I remember an occasion when my friend GP Shera (see blog at right) and one of his friends went in a car to Melbourne from Canberra and straight back again, 'to see what it would be like'. I imagine it was pretty awful. Ah youth.

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