On June 7, 2007 the MV Pasha Bulker, was waiting off
shore at Newcastle, Australia for a load of coal when she
was washed onto Nobbys Beach by a large storm. The wind and
waves blew the empty 76 thousand tonne bulk loader hard
onto the sand where she stuck firm with her hull intact.
This is what the scene looked like on June 23, 2007...
simultaneously amazing and tawdry. On one hand, lay clear
evidence of the power that nature has over even the
mightiest works of man, on the other, the beach kiosk was
selling sausage rolls which appeared to have been made out
of mattresses reclaimed from an old mens shelter. Either
that, or those seagulls were cannibals.