Posted by Paul Flint on September 23, 2003 at 22:52:32 from 212.134.24.66 user flint.
In Reply to: Re: Commemorative Plaque on Wild Cat Island posted by Robert Thompson on September 21, 2003 at 23:13:30:
I have been visiting Peel island for a dozen years or more and never seen signs of a plaque ...... thank goodness. As a boy in the 60s I spent many happy hours searching the Coniston area for Swallowdale and Peter Duck's cave, climbing Kanchenjunga, looking for the Boat House, Beckfoot and Octopus Lagoon. Had I reached any of these places and found a commemorative plaque I would have been devasted. I wanted to be the first to discover them. For them to be my secret. How did Scott feel when he reached the South Pole .... to find that Amundson had arrived there first! Plaques are for houses that have been lived in by famous people and for things given as donations. They definitely aren't for the adventurous, romantic, detectives that are the stuff of Ransome lovers. Let us leave his places unmarked, so that future generations of children can discover them for the first time!