Thread: Cherry Venture To Go

This will be the second time they are getting rid of it

The first time they just got rid of the upper decks.

Will be a shame to see it go. Every good 4wd beach has a shipwreck on it.

There was nothing better than an ice block at the Cherry Venture on a hot Summers Day.

Personally I can't wait til they put up the dam wall to stop half wits getting their 4wds drowned when stuck below the high tide mark.

My Mum went and saw it when it first ran aground. In a Land Rover

There is nothing left now anyway, it's a pile of rusted dung, which is a shame.
I remember seeing it as a wee one, it was basically complete.
I remember climbing all over when I wasn't that young either.

Since they crushed it with the excavator, you can't even tell what it is, or was, and is more dangerous now - more good decisions from the Govt. with all fluff and no substance.

As she was



It's now about one eight of the length, hardly 10ft tall and no recognisable features of a ship at all, just a pile of rusted, twisted metal.

It must have been a ripper of a storm to get a freighter that big that high up the beach.

Originally Posted by dobbo

It must have been a ripper of a storm to get a freighter that big that high up the beach.

Was a cyclone in 73, then another one came through the next day I think and got it further. What's left now is about 20m from the dunes

Originally Posted by dobbo

It must have been a ripper of a storm to get a freighter that big that high up the beach.

Apparently 12M + waves and 140km/h + winds

There's not much of it left anyhow, how sad.

Should've been preserved when it washed up and became unrecoverable.
Would've made a great unusual hotel or similar.

I was lucky enough to see it when I was about 16, a few months after it 'arrived'.

Amazing how quickly a beach can form and re form, it was stuck fast within a week or so.

Bets on for another 'cherry venture' before too long...

There must be a joke somewhere about it being Viet, and a precursor of 'boat people' etc.... 'travelling in style, eh'? (I'm not being personal or racist).

GQ

Thats a shame, things like that are good for sucking in the tourists, its just sad that a few idiots are ruining it for the rest of us. Matt

bloody Beattie ........the whole country is overrun by Nanny governments, because we arent capable of looking after ourselves, they must assume the right (power)

can u imagine a Pamplona of Spain, or the burning barrels of the UK............if not banned thered be a workplace health and safety risk assessessment and hard hats and counsellors would be compulsory

changing from the lucky county to the "Pussy Country".

picture i took of the old Cherry Venture in the 1970.s

http://www.aulro.com/app/data/500/cherry.jpg