Drifting about a North Queensland tip shop, our Shipping Reporter stumbled across the above seascape watercolour , which he has added to his rum collection of nautical memorabilia .
He believes the background in the painting is the picturesque Tasmanian national park named after French navigator Louis de Freycinet , because of a scrap of paper he saw at the tip , which later sank out of sight .
It bears the ( faded ) artist's name, which appears to be June Kirby . In any case, it now rests near several framed posters for Australian Wooden Boat Festivals held in Tassie in 2003 and 2005.
