I am a Star-Child Resident of Earth In-Love with All Random Things Considered to be Organic and Inorganic. ♥
“In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of “faëry lands forlorn,” where lost Atlantis and Elysium lie, with the evening star for pilot, to the land of Heart’s Desire. And she was richer in those dreams than in realities; for things seen pass away, but the things that are unseen are eternal.” — L.M. Montgomery
Platja des Dolç. (by Mateu Isern)
Duyfken (Little Dove) (by ndnbrunei)
The full size replica of the16th century sailing vessel, Duyfken, moored at Marlin Wharf, Cairns, North Queensland, Australia.
The original ship was built in 1595 in the Netherlands and appears to have been the first European vessel to make landfall in Australia. The Duyfken was sent out by the Dutch East India Company from what is now Indonesia, to search for “south and east lands”.
In 1606 she bumped into the west coast of Cape York (North Queensland) and her crew then sailed south along the coast until they were involved in an unfortunate incident with the Aboriginal people. The ship then returned to the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
Interestingly, I worked for a number of years with the Wik People (the Aboriginal people of that area of Cape York) and the story of the incident with the Dutch is still told as part of their strong oral tradition, four hundred years after the event!
This vessel was built in Western Australia and launched in January 1999. She is 24 metres long and was made using traditional materials (oak) and methods (most joints are dowelled - view this photo in the large size and you will see the dowel ends in the side of the ship). The attention to detail is wonderful, even down to reproductions of the art work that was on the original ship - made with the assistance of sailor’s sketches found in the historic record. — ndnbrunei
“I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there; not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart; but really with it, and in it.” — Emily Brontë
green & turquoise (by lone snapper)
Sailing
When I go sailing, I’ll gaze at the sky,
And use the breeze to steer her by,
Where I’ll go I cannot decide,
But I must hurry to catch the tide,
Up above me, birds are flying,
While back on board I’m contently sighing,
My ship speeds throu water like a knife,
Yes, indeed, this is the life,
Would I again live on land,
Go back to hard labour, bleeding hands,
I wouldn’t change for the world,
Not now my sails have been unfurled,
— Disconnected Soul With A Deceased Heart
Free Man’s Dreams (by valerie chiang)
“The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly, the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.” — Victor Hugo
Fishermen’s boat at dawn - Barca di pescatori all’alba (by Robyn Hooz)
“Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.” ― Eckhart Tolle
The green point - Il punto verde (by Robyn Hooz)
“On a day when the wind is perfect, the sail just needs to open and the world is full of beauty. Today is such a day.” — Rumi
“Beyond the East the sunrise, beyond the West the sea,
And East and West the wanderlust that will not let me be;
It works in me like madness, dear, to bid me say good-by!
For the seas call and the stars call, and oh, the call of the sky!
I know not where the white road runs, nor what the blue hills are,
But man can have the sun for friend, and for his guide a star;
And there’s no end of voyaging when once the voice is heard,
For the river calls and the road calls, and oh, the call of a bird!
Yonder the long horizon lies, and there by night and day
The old ships draw to home again, the young ships sail away;
And come I may, but go I must, and if men ask you why,
You may put the blame on the stars and the sun and the white road and the sky!”
— Gerald Gould
Elegant Elena (by Alain25370)
“Make your choice adventurous Stranger;
Strike the bell and bide the danger,
Or wonder till it drives you mad:
What would have followed if you had.”
— Clive Staples Lewis
“…the sea’s only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don’t know much about the sea, but I do know that that’s the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head…” — Primo Levi
morning mist (by gazpic)
“I felt the full breadth and depth of the ocean around the sphere of the Earth, back billions of years to the beginning of life, across all the passing lives and deaths, the endless waves of swimming joy and quiet losses of exquisite creatures with fins and fronds, tentacles and wings, colourful and transparent, tiny and huge, coming and going. There is nothing the ocean has not seen.”
— Sally Andrew
“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
— Maya Angelou
sailing stormy waters (by serni)
“In the voyage of your worldly existence, the sails at which your life float upon, are tethered by the thoughts and emotions that which you harbor. Expand.”
— Will Barnes
3-2780 Golden sunset in Le Havre France (over 6 000 views) 法国勒阿弗尔 日落 선셋 (by Rolye)
