No sooner had this blog asked if Townsville's waterfront area known as the Duck Pond was becoming a Bermuda Triangle because of yachts coming to grief there , than there was a loud explosion on another one and it sank an hour later . Local media ran footage of the evidence apparently because members of the public captured the burning vessel on smartphones . The garbled reporting did not explain why the"sailing boat ", not named, was supposedly adrift , the name of its owner, what may have caused propane gas bottles to explode .
During the energetic Mother's Day events , our Shipping Reporter took this action photograph of brave local women paddling through the dangerous Duck Pond not far from where the mystery yacht had exploded the day before . Motor vessel Lady Jane in the background enjoyed breakfast in bed and just swinging at anchor the rest of the day. Could it possibly be that another vessel, below , got into difficulties in the Duck Pond and hit the rocks on the sabbath ?
