Regular readers of Little Darwin in the four corners of the blue planet know that the Shipping Reporter often hands in salty yarns about Townsville's so called "ghost fleet "- the many interesting vessels that come and go without mention by the lifeless mainland media .
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While lurking about the waterfront tuther day with his camera , he snapped the above nifty white craft , fitted out for serious fishing , heading out to sea , displaying on the stern a name which , with his poor eyesight, he took to be GHOST .
You surely cannot get a more apt ghost fleet subject than this , a blindingly white vessel possibly named after Casper the friendly translucent ghost ?
On the very same day, the Shipping Reporter made further contact, as it were, with the other side ,above, in the shape of TASMAN SPIRIT ,a bulk carrier sailing under the Marshall Islands flag .
SEANCE NOTE: Not wanting to knock, knock the Shipping Reporter's story, the fishing boat could have been QUEST ,or something else less exciting , of this world .
