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Sunday, 15th February, 2009

# Another Bounty Day is drawing closer. The date is Sunday 24th January 2010 at the Darts Club Hall in Kenepuru, Porirua, Wellington, New Zealand. It starts at 1pm and goes till late. The cost is $10 per head and children under 12 are free.

Bounty Day is an opportunity for Pitcairn and Bounty descendants to meet up and have fun. A flyer with information is here. Please print this out and pass it on. You can also print out a page containing the words to the songs sung while the Bounty is set alight.

I've written about previous Bounty days before:

• 2008
• 2006

I posted to the Friends of Pitcairn group about the 2009 Bounty Day:

Earlier in the day it was raining very hard in Wellington but magically cleared up for the entire Bounty day gathering. It ended up being a beautiful day.

It started at 1pm with lots of mingling and catching up with friends and relatives. I got to catch up with an uncle I haven't seen for well over 20 years. The Pitcairn flag was on the wall with the model of the Bounty in front of it. It looked great and the model, made by Butch Young, was awesome. In fact it was so awesome it was too good to burn and another model was burnt instead :-)

The DVD was playing scenes and movies from Pitcairn and photo's were on the back wall.

The traditional games were started with much enthusiasm, followed by the annual tug of war between the men and the Women. For the first time in four years the men actually won! I heard some women talking about bringing lots more daughters and nieces next year to regain the tug of war bragging rights!

This was followed by a "unna a coc'nut" competition. Four teams of four sat down to race to be the first to finish the task. Lots of shouting, encouragement, and an eventual winner which I forgot who they were as I gorged myself on coconut - sorry :-)

The burning of the Bounty took place on the field. Everyone sang 'In the sweet bye and bye' while it burnt and then Leona led the 'Pitcairn Goodbye Song'.

After that the food came out but unfortunately I had to rush off to the airport to catch my plane back to Auckland and I missed out on the good food. Based on previous years I'm sure it was fantastic.

Some photo's:

Hope to see lots of you at Bounty Day 2010!

Sunday, 15th February, 2009

# I've added a new link to the sidebar for the Pitcairn Islands Travel Guide site. It has lots of interesting Pitcairn Island information. Well worth a visit.

Wednesday, 26th November, 2008

# Bounty Day is fast approaching! The date for Bounty Day in Wellington, New Zealand, is Sunday 18th January 2009. It's starting a little later this time, beginning from 1pm. It's held at the Darts Club Hall in Kenepuru, Drive, Porirua, Wellington. The cost is $10 per head and children under 12 are free.

This is a chance for Pitcairn and Bounty descendants to get together and have a good time. For an idea of what goes on you can read my comments on the 2008 and 2006 Bounty days.

Two flyers are available with information. Print these out and pass them on, or email them to all those you think will be interested. The first has all the time, location and contact information details. The second has the words for the songs that are sung while the Bounty is burning.

Thanks to Leona for passing these on to me to get the word out. Hope to see you all there!

Friday, 14th November, 2008

# 'Uklun Tul Un Dem Tul' is a monthly Pitcairn newsletter prepared and published by Julie Christian. Online Pitcairn keeps an archive of past copies and the October version is now out. A copy is available locally here. In this issue:

• Honey from Pitcairn Island
• Silver Shadow - The second cruise ship of the season
• Lots of photo's of events and happenings on Pitcairn

Thursday, 13th November, 2008

# Bounty Descendants Gird for Mutiny Over Norfolk Island Takeover

The descendants of Fletcher Christian and the Bounty mutineers are threatening to revolt again to keep Australia from grabbing control of Norfolk Island, their South Pacific home.

Wednesday, 13th February, 2008

# I took the webcam images of the QE2 taken at various intervals and converted it to a video. I removed the night scenes which were all black and it shows the approach to Pitcairn, where you get to see the island coming into view.

The video is downloadable from the file qe2.ogg. The codec to play the file, if you don't already have it, is available:

• Windows
• Apple Mac OS X
• For Linux install Ogg Theora codecs

With those codecs you can play it in your standard system video player. If you have a browser that supports the video HTML element you should see it playing below.

Tuesday, 12th February 2008

# The cruise ship Queen Elizabeth 2 is on its way to Pitcairn Island. You can track its progress and see a view from the onboard webcam here.