TEA CUPS & SHIPWRECKS
PEERING into the tea cup, it’s as though I’m willing the leaves to whisper shipwreck truths. We’re sharing morning tea, about to embark on three days trekking the famed Great Ocean Walk. Earlier, on the three-hour bus trip from Melbourne’s CBD, I’d read about a ship with its cargo full of tea that was wrecked off Moonlight Head. Tea has taken on a new meaning.
The coastline off southern Australia is better known as the Shipwreck Coast for its haunting nautical past. The tea leaves hold no answers for that fateful tea delivery from China back in 1869, nor the schooner where survivors feasted on a dead whale to stay alive. It’s time to get walking and find out more about this coast where over 300 ships have come to grief. A coastline so well
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