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Some of my most fun and memorable travels started on a spontaneous whim No time for preconceived notions, experiences were judged as they should be, on their merits, not on expectations of hope. Jotting spontaneous notes, rather than planning and preening journal entries, is the same! By worrying about the perfect opening phrase for your […]
Map Journal Map Journals are Journey Jottings’ signature product having come into being when I returned from a trip to the Northern Territory, Australia and felt my traditional travel journal just didn’t cut it when it came to showing and sharing with family and friends where I’d been on my travels and what adventures I’d had. […]
For those who’ve been reading this blog for the last few months, you will have been following a day by day account from a Mr Whelan’s journal as he sailed from England to Australia 140 years ago aboard the iron clipper ‘Hesperides’ . After 93 days at sea, on the 28th December 1878 he landed […]
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Is this what awaited Mr Whelan upon arrival in Australia in 1878? “Columbus Buggy Co. Standard. World over. Columbus, Ohio, USA. Distributing Ship Cargo of Standard Buggies, Coast of Australia“ Chromolithograph poster (published in the United States) circa 1880, advertising the Columbus Buggy Company’s ‘standard’ buggy, being driven away from the Australian port, pulled by […]
“Up at 8 this morning & Prepared our luggage for landing. Mr Tate & the Guv’nor arrived at 10.30 & soon we had all our cabin stock on board a small sailing yacht & landed at Sandridge Pier at 12 where we were soon spotted by a buggyman, who seemed very sharp fellows & anxious […]
“We spent a very happy day on board. Fine weather & a strong breeze but quite cold in the shade. On putting on my best clothes I find that I have grown 2 or 3” broader across the chest which is I hope a good sign. Lived like fighting cocks all day & enjoyed ourselves […]
“Several squalls during the night & the rolling was awful. I was called according to an arrangement made last night at 3am & I immediately began paying Master Joey out for his game of the night before by rousting him out every quarter hour till 5 when he could not stand it any longer & […]
“All excitement today Looking out for the first land we shall sight since we saw the Isle of Wight. Fine morning with the exception of a shower of rain for a short time. At 12 we had 50 miles to go to get to Cape Otway. The first mate & captain were on the lookout […]
“Up at 8.30. The wind has dropped a little today & we are not doing so much now. We are now in Lat 40 S & Long139 15”E & we hope to sight Cape Otway tomorrow & end our journey by Saturday. Have been very busy all day getting our things into respectable order before […]
