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There is a major event on Sydney Harbor this weekend celebrating 100 years since the Australian Navy first steamed into Sydney Harbor. Lots of visiting warships and a dozen or so sailing ships from various countries, including three ships from the Netherlands visiting Australia as part of a round the world journey. I won't be in Sydney myself this weekend (live 1,000 miles way) but would be worth the effort for anyone who is over that way.

I caught the three ships in Adelaide a month ago and purely by chance also at the end of July when they were in Fremantle, Perth having just arrived at that stage from Mauritius.

Lots of photos on my blog at these links:

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Great shots!!! Thanks for sharing. Looks like a great time to be had. I'll have to get to Norfolk, VA's harbor fest next year and get some photos to compete with these tall ships.

Tim

Thanks Tim. Watching them leave Adelaide under sail was definitely the highlight.

Did anybody on the Forum get to Sydney for the Fleet Review?

Well done. The captions are quite as interesting as the pix.

H2

Thank you. That's the intent of my blog - to put a story and context to the images I post. I find galleries like Flickr etc somewhat unsatisfying as I am always longing for to know more about the images that catch my eye - where they were, what the photog was thinking, technical challenges, etc.

I've been amazed at what I have learnt doing the research for the captions.