Uninhabited Islands,Any explorers ? :)

sarabande said:
yes, it was sprayed with acetic acid. Porton Down used to place a dozen sheep on the island each spring in the old days, and see how many were left alive by mid-summer. To start with, there were not many. (An old stamping ground for me in the 1960s)


There are many farms with 'anthrax pits' where carcases from casualties were buried deeply (anthrax wasa fairly common animal disease not so long ago.) MAFF used to have maps, but I think they were discontinued and lost in Defra.

Only a few very old farmers can remember where some of the pits are; and the bacillus is understood to last for forty years....
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Isn't that just vinegar? Or is there strong stuff and edible stuff?
 
Ben Dockrell 22 said:
With so many very experinced sailors i just had to ask this one.

Have you found and explored uninhabited islands out of the terrortorial waters of any country ?

Anyone paid a visit to an abandoned oil rig ?

Or old sea forts ?

Any photos would be most interesting too :)
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I wonder what would happen if you dropped the hook off Bransons Island or David copperfields and went up to just below the HW mark for a picnic. Do you think someone with guns would come and have a word?
 
Ben Dockrell 22 said:
Vitamin C is Acetic acid, also known as a powerful anti toxin :)
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Vitamin C is Ascorbic acid. I don't know about antitoxin but I wouldn't take it for a snake bite, though it can be used as a preservative. Some people get very rich from selling it for things it doesn't do.

Acetic acid is the main component of vinegar and I would be suspicious of eating anything you have cooked.
 
johnalison said:
Vitamin C is Ascorbic acid. I don't know about antitoxin but I wouldn't take it for a snake bite, though it can be used as a preservative. Some people get very rich from selling it for things it doesn't do.

Acetic acid is the main component of vinegar and I would be suspicious of eating anything you have cooked.[/QUOTE


OOOOOOppps now im cringing oooochhh lol :o
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Went ashore on an uninhibited desert isle in the Whitsundays. Followed some interesting tracks in the sand and wondered what the intermittent "swirl" between them was. Went into warp drive back to the dinghy when we sussed that they were probably Croc (not the shoes) tracks!
 
kindlebooks said:
I wonder what would happen if you dropped the hook off Bransons Island or David copperfields and went up to just below the HW mark for a picnic. Do you think someone with guns would come and have a word?
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Well perhaps with a motorboat they might ? :)

I think there is a need if someone of such immense personal fortune owns an island that the hire out to people.

You know if we look at whats happened in somalia the pirates appear to be getting choosy looking at high end remote coastal resorts to kidnap people.

One well reported case showed a husband was murdered,his wife survived though thanks to the family and possibly payment of a ransom.
 
Hadenough said:
Went ashore on an uninhibited desert isle in the Whitsundays. Followed some interesting tracks in the sand and wondered what the intermittent "swirl" between them was. Went into warp drive back to the dinghy when we sussed that they were probably Croc (not the shoes) tracks!
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Another reason for knowing wether to set foot on an island, is it a sanctuary or nesting grounds.

I recently learned a croc tears its target apart by biting into its flesh then rolling itself so it literally tears strips off its prey.
 
Ben Dockrell 22 said:
With so many very experinced sailors i just had to ask this one.

Have you found and explored uninhabited islands out of the terrortorial waters of any country ?

Anyone paid a visit to an abandoned oil rig ?

Or old sea forts ?

Any photos would be most interesting too :)
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We've been ashore on several unhinhabited islands in the Bahamas and the Turks & Caicos Islands but never tried to claim them for the Queen. I suspect the rightful owners would have soon dispatched my tiny expeditionary force.

We've also anchored off Nekker Island in BVI and no-one came to shoo us away.

We spent a couple of weeks anchored off a small deserted bay in Culebra imagining it was our own, but then got bored and headed for the bright lights of BVI!
 
Hadenough said:
Went ashore on an uninhibited desert isle in the Whitsundays. Followed some interesting tracks in the sand and wondered what the intermittent "swirl" between them was. Went into warp drive back to the dinghy when we sussed that they were probably Croc (not the shoes) tracks!
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Whilst there have been instances of big salt water crocs visiting the islands what you saw were most likely goanna (monitor lizard) tracks. Although they won't seek you out for lunch, at up to 6 foot long and with claws that let them scamper straight up trees, you wouldn't want to go giving one a cuddle that's for sure.
 
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