From our ephemera collection comes this
January 12, 1988 postcard from the
brigantine Eye of the Storm , built in
1911, part of the First Fleet Re-enactment . It comes from
a dashing doctor friend , Ced Bullard, at times seen riding a bicycle about
the Darwin waterfront
while organising cruise ships . Ced
was travelling as an official doctor aboard the vessel , with a
sail area of 8000 square feet , when it pulled into
Twofold Bay, Eden, NSW, on its way to
Sydney for the big official arrival. His message reads : We settled in here last night
after rescuing a Sydney Hobart
yacht returning to Sydney when
struck by lightning and stranded at sea
for three days. The fleet will re-assemble here for the home
run via Jervis Bay and Botany Bay . We spent Friday night at Oberon Bay on Wilson’s Promontory where
we took refuge from a gale. We have been visited by
trawlers, helicopter, sharks, seals, whales and dolphins. He points out the sails of the brigantine are now brown.
