The Sinking of the Adelaide

My bike blog has to give way this week to another urgent matter, the plans to sink a navy ship as a reef just off our beach. That’s Avoca Beach.

We were not consulted. We are horrified and we are fighting back. The sinking is just days away, March 27th. Yet still we think we can stop it, even though there are signs all over the Central Coast, announcing the “great day” and explaining which roads will be closed.

They expect 30,000 people to view the ship go down from the beaches and cliffs. How disappointed some will be!

Visit the web site for more info. http://noship.com.au/

I’ve made several films about why we are opposed. Now, having been handed the most wonderful protest song by local folk singers, Nick and Liesl, I’ve made this music video, The Sinking of the Adelaide.

I’m putting the lyrics here because we hope that other singers will want to sing it, especially overseas.

Why? Well, if word gets to our embassies that this song telling how we are with this action, undermining all our environmental principles, then perhaps those in the far flung embassies who care about our foreign image, will send word back to Canberra, that this is not a good idea

The lyrics for The sinking of the Adelaide by Nick and Liesl.

Standing at Avoca,
Oh, what a beautiful place
The land has been scarred before
but the oceans remain unpaved.

Standing on the beach
watching the waves roll in
Will it ever be the same?
after the sinking of the Adelaide

Chorus.
Adelaide, in her ocean grave,
a shipwreck without a storm.
A sunken ship wont help us pay for,
the oceans we cant restore.

It’s just a drop in the ocean,
but a drop I don’t want to taste.
At what point do we ask ourselves,
should we treat our oceans this way?

It’s out of sight and out of mind,
‘cept for the divers and the fish they’ll find.
I guess the Government’s made up it’s mind,
but without choices we have no rights.

Chorus.

Is it worth the risk is it worth the fight.
(Liesl repeats) Is it with the risk, is it worth the fight?

I’m just not sure this is right.
(Liesl) I’m just not sure this is right.
You and me and mother nature’s plight.

There are questions unanswered,
and there are risks we can’t deny.

We can sit on the fence
with holes in our fancy pants
But this aint no summer romance,
there will be no second chance.

Chorus twice.