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Curmy you have left me for dead, i have no idea what you are talking about, however i did get the drift that it was meant to be insulting; however it was just non applicable.Tony isn't in this one i think, he is a Kiwi, lives on the other side of the Tasman Sea.Thanks for all the good wishes from my North American freinds.Here is and Anglo American story about Sydney Harbour, which is generally regarded as the worlds top harbour.A squadron of four warships from the newly formed American navy was sent to visit the then new settlement of New South Wales at Sydney Cove. They approached Sydney heads just on dark and as they knew the harbour was big ( easily holds 1000 ships of the line) and without any natural hazards they kept going, through the heads and bear to port and anchor at will, was the sailing instructions. They did just that but were a bit confused as there were no lights, but kept going and evetually saw a small light to port. Whereupon they dropped anchor.There were no Aussies yet all poms and they were pretty upset when the woke up the next morning with four foreign warships anchored in Sydney Cove and of a very recent enemy. You Poms and Yanks hadn't become mates yet. Anyway hard words were said on both sides but it was all sorted out and the sailors went ashore for shore leave; spent quit a bit of money and have been doing so ever since.The upshot was they put a look out up on a hill on the northern headland with a beacon fire to light, if any ships were sighted coming from anywhere. Today this is a very expenive suburb of Sydney known as Beacon Hill. Good luck to all you Yanks and Poms from us Aussies on Australia Day 2007Rgds Ian.
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