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Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« on: March 03, 2016, 07:49:44 AM »
This year marks 43 years since the Cherry Venture grounded in 40' sea's on Teewah beach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3odV6wLMmY..
How many have memories pics etc of trips to see her just after the grounding in the early days, would have been quite an adventure compared to the ease of getting to the site and Double Island Point as it is today ..
 http://www.abc.net.au/backyard/shipwrecks/qld/cherryventure.htm      and  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFagW_RTb_U
Check out the sand build up around the wreck  in the pic .
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2016, 09:06:40 AM »
Our family did a couple of day trip tours to the coloured sands in the 1970's...    It was probably the catalyst that got me into 4wding...

Back in those days the trip started from a little boat that took you across the Noosa River....     On the other side you were loaded into old WW2 army 6wd trucks.    These things were canvas roofed; and open sided...    The tourists sat on 2 long wooden bench seats running down both sides.

After what seemed like ages; (but was maybe 45 minutes); of grinding and bouncing about on the primitive sand tracks - you would bust out onto the beach....   

No trip was complete without filling some small glass bottles that you had brought along - (possibility Pauls Chocolate Milk empties?);  with as many different varieties of coloured sands as you could fosic....

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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2016, 12:09:32 PM »
I took the kids up there the other month....Its just not the same with the wreck no longer there.... and bitumen to the cutting and didn't need 4wd to get on the beach... glad I had the old days but still good to get on the beach
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2016, 12:25:30 PM »
The sad remains uncovered by big seas in 2013 ... part of the engine they left .
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2016, 04:19:54 PM »
We use to always stop there for an Ice Cream.

Best $78.00 ever spent to get 2 Golden Gaytimes off Mr Yum Yum.

A mate of mine has the brass portholes off the thing. About 4 or 5 of 'em from memory.
They'd be worth a dollar by now.... maybe?
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2016, 09:17:39 PM »
Such a shame that there is not even a memorial marker or something for tourists to see.
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2016, 09:29:01 PM »
They do have an information /  photo board up in the back dunes opposite where the engine lies, can just make out the roof of it in the bottom pic .... Would still prefer to see the remains of the ship looming out of the sea haze though as you drive up the beach to D.I. 
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2016, 09:34:03 PM »
Thanks for that info Edz,
 we were up there at x'mas and missed that. Will definately check for it on our next trip to paradise.
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2016, 05:25:12 AM »
Will see if I can dig out some more. This one was around 1979.
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2016, 06:26:06 AM »
Hi All, My dad started going up to Di in 1937 as a 14 year old boy they camped there for two weeks, I was taken up as a baby in 1964, We saw the Cherry Venture a  week or so after it washed up not long after that we took a big feed of fish down to the people there, And they gave us the grand tour of the ship, even saw where the rudder cog had stripped a few teeth off it, Craig 
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #10 on: March 05, 2016, 09:04:43 AM »
Just saw this photo on FB shared on rock report rainbow beach page, thought I'd share
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #11 on: March 05, 2016, 09:43:28 AM »
Hi all, Thats after they got to it and cut it up for scrap metal, everybody I know bought a bbq plate of them for $50 My mate still has his, Craig
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #12 on: March 05, 2016, 09:52:56 AM »
Quote from: edz on March 03, 2016, 09:29:01 PM
Would still prefer to see the remains of the ship looming out of the sea haze though as you drive up the beach to D.I.
X 2 on that....our local government our idiots, why would people like to see tourist attractions such as that and the wrecks at Moreton Island after all?...let's just cut them up and remove them due to a fear of litigation  >:(  Luckily something like Ayres Rock isn't in Qld, because the government would bring in the rock breakers to remove it, so people couldn't fall off of the edge of it
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2016, 10:33:54 AM »
As if Falcons didnt rust quick enough as it was, Love the pic though .  Aaahhh back in the days of   "  FREEDOM "  and  few rules other than common sense . ;D
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2016, 04:09:54 PM »
...  off topic - but can anyone remember happy campers' old canvas box tents pitched on top of Indian Head...   aarrr   they were the days...      :cheers:
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #15 on: March 06, 2016, 11:34:38 AM »
Many years ago stopping for an icecream at the Cherry Venture on our way to Fraser ..... to think everthing we took camping for 14 days on Fraser was fitted into this truck in this photo ..... ;D
Looking back the O'l truck didnt look too bad with its $40  industrial enamel paint job, Had a worked 2ltr Escort motor and with the gearing it had, sounded like a Rallye car at full noise coming up the beach ..  ;D
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Re: Wreck of the CHERRY VENTURE ..
« Reply #16 on: March 06, 2016, 08:08:04 PM »
Quote from: edz on March 05, 2016, 10:33:54 AM
Aaahhh back in the days of   "  FREEDOM "  and  few rules other than common sense . ;D

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