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Locality: Cairns, Queensland, Australia

Address: 31 Michaelangelo Drive 4870 Cairns, QLD, Australia

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25.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - A total eclipse of Blighs launch voyage !

24.01.2022 SEASONS GREETINGS To all friends of Conspiracy on the Bounty Blighs Convenient Mutiny... From the realm of an unusual breadfruit tree (Leyte PI) Artocarpus mariannensis (dugdug) Best Wishes for 2018 Karl E. A. Lorbach

23.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Recommended soundtrack selection "The Bounty"

22.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Pacifist or Villain Blighs Lucrative Mutiny! It can be entertaining to split an infinitive but in this cartoon there is a double entendre that lurks beyond the ambiguity. Notably the drawing shows all the mutineers having their fingers pressed into their ears. Mirroring the childrens rhyme, names will never hurt me, the taunting is meant to be mischievous. In reality, shamefully, the only resistance Bligh threw at the mutineers during his entire three-hour arrest was more of his verbal abuses. And why would Bligh risk his skin when all the while he was smartly aware that an opportunity for fortune and glory was rapidly unfolding!

19.01.2022 WHO DARES, LOSES ! Bountiana in Decline: It is a sad fact that the story of Lieutenant Blighs historic launch voyage has been relegated to a trashy reality television show. On 10 July 2017 Australian SBS television re-aired Channel 4s first episode of Mutiny, a five part UK series in which SAS Who Dares Wins instructor Anthony Middleton and 8 other men, very badly recreate Blighs journey from Tonga to Timor following the mutiny on the Bounty....Continue reading

18.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Gauguins Erotic Tahiti

18.01.2022 WHO DARES, LOSES ! Bountiana in Decline: It is a sad fact that the story of Lieutenant Bligh’s historic launch voyage has been relegated to a trashy reality television show. On 10 July 2017 Australian SBS television re-aired Channel 4’s first episode of Mutiny, a five part UK series in which SAS Who Dares Wins instructor Anthony Middleton and 8 other men, very badly recreate Bligh’s journey from Tonga to Timor following the mutiny on the Bounty....Continue reading

18.01.2022 It is time to reset the historic settings: the mutiny on the Bounty only occurred because it suited Lieutenant Bligh at that time. Bligh had deliberately agitat...ed dissent. It was more about a commanders fear of failure and ridicule. Bligh, an intelligent yet belligerent and sadistic bisexual, tormented the not-so-smart, and much younger, heterosexual, Fletcher Christian; in the hope he would create some kind of serious disruption, which Christian eventually did. More the fool was Christian. In advance of sudden peril to a ship and its compliment, commanders tended to update fallback plans as they proceeded on their voyage. At that time, should the Bounty have collided with a hidden shoal, or rebellion broken out [there were no Marines on board] Blighs fallback plan was to take to ships tenders and sail 80 miles south to the safety of Tongatapu where there was a fair chance of rescue. As it happened, Bligh was only prevented from doing so by a change in the weather and sea. When Bligh did sail his sufficiently equipped Launch to Australias Great Barrier Reef, one should not be surprised to learn that the entrance Bligh passed into the waters of the Great Barrier Reef was just twelve miles south of Providence Channel where the Endeavour had re-entered in 1770: thats less than half a compass degree off-course from Tofua where he set out. Ten years in the writing the best explanation ever written about the Bounty mutiny is contained in Conspiracy on the Bounty Blighs Convenient Mutiny. Illustration: picture I took in 1966: Restoration Island. In the centre-foreground is the beach at high tide where Bligh landed the Bountys Launch. The distant range is the Australian mainland.

15.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - A ROYAL BOTANIST IN THE PHILIPPINES

15.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - An increasingly complex situation

15.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - The French lost most of their breadfruits too

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15.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Global Breadfruit

15.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - The Real Captain Bligh

14.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Gauguins ideas influenced Bountiana

14.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Who Dares, Loses ! Mad Dogs and Englishmen: Be humbled by televisions over imaginative, new night-time reality drama Mutiny (junk television). Some love it: wannabe actors emulating people sufferings, violence, domination, retribution, constantly glorifying and reinforcing got-to-see human conflicts, and in the case of Channel 4s survival challenge (Blighs launch voyage), pretend it is history being revisited. It isnt!

14.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Seasons Greetings

13.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - One Man Lived To Tell The Tale

13.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - TWO OF BLIGHS THREE ORIGINAL LOGBOOKS MISSING

12.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - A MASON ON A MISSION

12.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Isnt "She" Beautiful !

10.01.2022 Blighs (made-to-order) Convenient Mutiny. What started as an all-fools-day fun question put to group members of Friends of Pitcairn was in essence a sensible question. Question If you could have asked Fletcher Christian one question, what would that question be? ... Answer Considering that William Bligh made fame and fortune through adversity, and observing that his passive response to his arrest and the mutiny, was most uncharacteristic of Lieutenant Bligh, how much Mr Christian were you acting as Blighs agent provocateur? After all, the mutiny was capably conducted and Bligh could have reacted much more decisively, yet he chose not to do so. The irony of your mutiny Mr Christian is that no blood was shed when there very well should have been; passive resistance meant no resistance at all is that not so Mr Christian what say thee? * [* Putting Hollywood stereotypes aside, when three men deserted the Bounty at Tahiti, Bligh displayed commendable leadership by tracking them right to their lair, and in the tense moment of arresting them he placed himself in physical danger. However when it came to the mutiny, it is highly suspicious that his command was so uncharacteristically weak. It was weak because he calculated he could achieve his goals without putting himself at risk; he was too clever to put on an unnecessary show of bravery. The mystery of his timidity has not gone unnoticed and any claims that Bligh had no opportunity to engage his captors, simply does not stand up to scrutiny.] [Illustration: Fletcher Christian age 23 crop of one of John Hagans collection of Bounty Paintings. (Courtesy of John Hagan) COTB, f33]

09.01.2022 Bligh’s (made-to-order) Convenient Mutiny. What started as an all-fools-day fun question put to group members of Friends of Pitcairn was in essence a sensible question. Question If you could have asked Fletcher Christian one question, what would that question be? ... Answer Considering that William Bligh made fame and fortune through adversity, and observing that his passive response to his arrest and the mutiny, was most uncharacteristic of Lieutenant Bligh, how much Mr Christian were you acting as Bligh’s agent provocateur? After all, the mutiny was capably conducted and Bligh could have reacted much more decisively, yet he chose not to do so. The irony of your mutiny Mr Christian is that no blood was shed when there very well should have been; passive resistance meant no resistance at all is that not so Mr Christian what say thee? * [* Putting Hollywood stereotypes aside, when three men deserted the Bounty at Tahiti, Bligh displayed commendable leadership by tracking them right to their lair, and in the tense moment of arresting them he placed himself in physical danger. However when it came to the mutiny, it is highly suspicious that his command was so uncharacteristically weak. It was weak because he calculated he could achieve his goals without putting himself at risk; he was too clever to put on an unnecessary show of bravery. The mystery of his timidity has not gone unnoticed and any claims that Bligh had no opportunity to engage his captors, simply does not stand up to scrutiny.] [Illustration: Fletcher Christian age 23 crop of one of John Hagan’s collection of Bounty Paintings. (Courtesy of John Hagan) COTB, f33]

09.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Mutiny on the Bounty [1962 Film Version Four]

09.01.2022 A ROYAL BOTANIST IN THE PHILIPPINES and CAPTAIN BLIGHS ROLE IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY BREADFRUIT MYTHMAKING ! Almost two years before HMS Bounty set sail for Tahiti, Juan de Cullar, having been appointed Royal Botanist in the service of the Real Compaa de Filipinas, embarked from Cdiz on board the guila Imperial heading for the Philippines. By August 1786 Cullar was in Manila undertaking his commission. Using the fleet sailing between the Philippines and Spain, Cullar s...Continue reading

08.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Early "Bounty" Pop Culture

07.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Passion, Power and Theatre on the Bounty

07.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - A Sweep Under Blighs Dirty Rug

06.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Lieutenant Bligh escaped the fate of Admiral Byng !

06.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Captain Blighs Silly Secret

06.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - "Bounty" Pop Culture

03.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - Countdown 9 Days To Mutiny ! A study of the class backgrounds of those who took part in the mutiny and those who were loyal to Bligh, reveal an overwhelming concentration of the more privileged joining the loyalists. With the exception of Christian and Midshipman Edward Young, the rebels were the lower deck men who worked the ship; they were the men who did the strenuous tasks, the ones whose lives were most at risk high up among... a snare of rigging and slippery spars. Being compelled to claw at sails with fingernails ripped and bloodied, or lashed for a mere slight of insolence, such misery and brutality could result in a sailors overly vengeful reactions. Furthermore, their vengeance might be defensible as sailors fortunate enough to make it back home, once their pay was spent, unemployment only brought more hardship upon them. Many believe that had it not been for Christians gentlemanly mark, dormant hatred amongst the wretched seaman-class would have resulted in an outbreak of revenge and murder. However the records simply do not support the theory of a spontaneous outburst of class hatred, of a rising over oppression dealt by tyrants in uniform, so there must have been another potent reason. See more

03.01.2022 BOUNTY FILMS IN PERSPECTIVE The mutiny on HMS Bounty has inspired many filmmakers and for millions of moviegoers the romantic backdrop of Tahiti has made the story of the Bounty a memorable experience; one we prefer to believe. We often hear the clich, read the book before watching the film! A problem with the Bounty story is which book, indeed which film? There has been over two thousand books and articles published; five feature length films; numerous documentary product...Continue reading

01.01.2022 New post added at www.bountyconspiracy.com - The Bounty [1984 Film Version Five]