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Saturday, November 26, 2011

Position Report TEKANI II

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"Am off Cape Upstart between Bowen and Ayr. Will update on progress tomorrow from Bowen where internet access should be OK ... one bar here with dropouts to match."


From Captain Cook's Journal during his first Voyage Around the World made in H.M. Bark "Endeavor" 1768-71:

June 1770

"Tuesday, 5th- Winds between the South and East, a Gentle breeze, and Serene weather. At 6 a.m. we were abreast of the Western point of Land above mentioned, distant from it 3 Miles which I have named Cape Upstart, because being surrounded with low land it starts or rises up singley at the first making of it..."