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100-year-old Barren Lands canoe expedition mystery solved

Glenn MacGrady

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"The calendar page turned to July 11th, 1925 . . . . It was a hot, sticky, bug-infested afternoon in the Barren Lands, 500km from the nearest settlement. Bullock and Hornby kept pushing in their canoes down the Hanbury River. Exhausted, severely malnourished, they decided to lessen their load."

"In the middle of the rapids, on a small island, they buried a cache containing motion-picture camera and spools of film. And Bullock took a photograph which, alongside his journals, was lost until 2015."

Hornby and Bullock 1925 Photo.jpg
"Inspired by their story, my wife Karolina and I decide to set off across the Barren Lands. Our goal: to not only find their cache, but also take a snapshot of a rarely visited world, one that changes so rapidly."

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"We’ve begun to clear soil from underneath the boulders. Fatigue gone, I feel chills rushing down my spine. Somehow we’ve found the rocks that Bullock and Hornby placed with their own hands 100 years ago. Little man-made pieces start to appear between our fingers. Crushed rusty pieces of metal, fragments of canvas tape, a piece of wood. Finally, the largest of the fragments – a round piece of metal, clearly part of a cine film can."

 
Yeah, great story! Their emotions must have been something akin to what drives archeologists. Cool that they found the cache. And still there remains the mystery of the camera.
 
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