This was a picture of the TSMV Kanimbula that Peter downloaded from the website www.ssmaritime.com/Kanimbla-Oriental-Queen.htm as extra research concerning his father's life. When Peter was in Atherton last, he was given the task of typing up the journal that his Dad wrote about his life. On this particular day, Peter has reached the stage when his (ten year old) dad and family migrated from West Australia to North Queensland. What a pivotal decision that was! What a huge change for that family of six (at the time)! Peter is typing and reading the story as it comes, stuff that he has never ever heard from his dad in real life. It has opened a new world in his appreciation of his dad. Wonderful stuff.The family travelled on the Kanimbla from Fremantle to Melbourne in late 1938, and after a four day break they took another ocean liner, the TSMV Manunda, for the second leg all the way to Townsville. That's as far as Peter typed this day and the rest will have to wait till after Christmas because there really is far too much else to do.
The Kanimbla was Australia's most beautiful and luxurious ocean liner.
When Barb finished work we dropped in on friends closer to the city heart and afterward found a few small presents in the Carlton area.
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