The Bligh Museum of Pacific Exploration
We believe that no one knows everything but everybody knows something and is willing to share that knowledge - so we can all learn together!
We believe that no one knows everything but everybody knows something and is willing to share that knowledge - so we can all learn together!
876 Adventure Bay Road, Adventure Bay, Bruny Island, 7150, Tasmania, Australia
OPENING HOURS: daily 10 am to 4 pm except Christmas day and Good Friday or by arrangement. Small admission charge applies
CONTACTS: phone: 61 03 62931117, mobile 0407689877 email: blighmuseum@gmail.com
Bligh brought with him from the Cape of Good Hope a large number of fruit trees. He selected the eastern side of the bay as suitable for them because trees grew less thickly and the soil appeared to be good.
He planted at East Cove three young apple trees, nine vines, six plantain trees, orange , lemon seed, cherry, plum, peach, apricot stones, two types of Indian corn, apple and pear kernels. He considered the land to be of rich, marly nature well adapted for these plants.
Mr. Nelson also planted other seeds and trees round the bay.
While Bligh planted onions, cabbage roots and potatoes.
Bligh found the natives timid and shy. He had no long contact with them. His men found growing in great abundance what they called New Zealand tea, which, when dried, formed a very satisfactory substitute for real tea.
The charts of this expedition are the first to show ?Table Hill? (Mt. Wellington). It was shown but not named in Bligh's map of 1777.
Bligh wrote that "Adventure Bay is a most convenient place for any number of ships to wood and water at but it has this inconvenience in the Winter months when southerly winds are prevalent, there is a troublesome surf on every part of the shore".
After the mutiny on the Bounty and the amazing open-boat voyage to Timor, Bligh set out on a fresh attempt to transplant breadfruit from Otaheite to the West Indies.
Bligh entered Adventure Bay on February 8, 1792. His men sought wood at the spot chosen previously in Quiet Corner and water at Resolution Creek.
He found one apple tree of those he had planted in 1788 but the rest of the garden appeared to have been destroyed by fire. The lone tree had not grown appreciably and had no fruit. Bligh planted quinces, figs, strawberries, pomegranates, rosemary and watercress. He also turned loose a cock and two hens.
Bligh wrote that ?Adventure Bay is a most convenient place for
any number of ships to wood and water at but it has this
inconvenience in the Winter months when southerly winds are
prevalent, there is a troublesome surf on every part of the shore.?
After the mutiny on the Bounty and the amazing open-boat.
He planted at East Cove three young apple trees, nine vines, six plantain trees, orange , lemon seed, cherry, plum, peach, apricot stones, two types of Indian corn, apple and pear kernels. He considered the land to be of rich, marly nature well adapted for these plants.
Mr. Nelson also planted other seeds and trees round the bay.
While Bligh planted onions, cabbage roots and potatoes.
Bligh found the natives timid and shy. He had no long contact with them. His men found growing in great abundance what they called New Zealand tea, which, when dried, formed a very satisfactory substitute for real tea.
The charts of this expedition are the first to show ?Table Hill? (Mt. Wellington). It was shown but not named in Bligh's map of 1777.
Bligh wrote that "Adventure Bay is a most convenient place for any number of ships to wood and water at but it has this inconvenience in the Winter months when southerly winds are prevalent, there is a troublesome surf on every part of the shore".
After the mutiny on the Bounty and the amazing open-boat voyage to Timor, Bligh set out on a fresh attempt to transplant breadfruit from Otaheite to the West Indies.
Bligh entered Adventure Bay on February 8, 1792. His men sought wood at the spot chosen previously in Quiet Corner and water at Resolution Creek.
He found one apple tree of those he had planted in 1788 but the rest of the garden appeared to have been destroyed by fire. The lone tree had not grown appreciably and had no fruit. Bligh planted quinces, figs, strawberries, pomegranates, rosemary and watercress. He also turned loose a cock and two hens.
Bligh wrote that ?Adventure Bay is a most convenient place for
any number of ships to wood and water at but it has this
inconvenience in the Winter months when southerly winds are
prevalent, there is a troublesome surf on every part of the shore.?
After the mutiny on the Bounty and the amazing open-boat.
Painting of H. M. S. "Bounty" in Adventure Bay
Picture of the Pandora being dispatched after the mutiny at Pitcairn Island