Happy Birthday Morgan

Happy 40th Birthday

Three Years

Three Years

♥♥ When your brother dies, your childhood fades,
there being one less person to remember it with...
It's like losing your computer and there's no back-up ♥♥
Garrison Keillor

Uncle Morgan

Remembering Morgan

Kate Sutton from uberKATE has made me this beautiful bangle.

Thankyou Kate.

The Blog is now a book

Morgan Mellish

By http://morganmelli...

We miss you

Garuda victims remembered one year on

Garuda victims remembered one year on
A private ceremony will be held in Jakarta today to mark the first anniversary of the Garuda plane crash in Jogjakarta.
Twelve months ago today, Garuda Flight 200 left Jakarta for Jogjakarta, where an attempt to land too fast caused the jet to crash and burst into flames.
Five Australians were among the 21 people killed.
They were two Australian Federal Police officers, Mark Scott and Brice Steele, AusAid's Indonesia head, Alison Sudrajat and the spokeswoman for Australia's Jakarta embassy, Liz O'Neill.
The Australian Financial Review's Jakarta correspondent Morgan Mellish was also killed.
They will be remembered in a private ceremony at the Australian embassy in Jakarta this morning.
ABC News

1000 Words

Happier days

Overlooking Cemaja in 2006 - Morges & Dom

Mt Piddington '95

Morges too cool for school and Dom looking to make good his escape.
Mt Piddington 1995
Dom.

PBR's last launch of HMS Mellish

Here's some pics from Morg's last PBR launch.

Was a longtime coming but well worth it.

Geoff

Hey Guys.

Well its almost a year now since we lost our boy Morg’s due to that stupid **** that just didn’t do his job properly! For me and I’m sure for you guys it has been quite an emotional rollercoaster coming to terms with the unnecessary loss of such a good friend. So to help close up the wound and say goodbye in the most appropriate way, five of us took a trip from Jakarta down to Cemaja last week to catch some waves, do a bit of soul searching and cast the remaining ashes of Morgan into the surf that he loved so much.

In the true spirit of our typical surf trips the farewell preparation and ceremony was a bit mad and totally unorganized. Over a wicked seafood dinner & beers the night before the farewell ceremony, the boys conceptualized (amongst other numerous and ambitious plans) to launch Morg’s ashes into the Indian ocean by way of a model Javanese fishing boat. Of course we bought a model boat that looked the business but didn’t float upright at first so we had to undertake some running modifications & draw upon the assistance of Ade Rabig (the local surf board repair boss) to source materials & help with the modifications. Upon completing the seaworthy adjustments to the vessel we all piled into our transport & headed off to a specially selected calm little surf spot called Logi (refer pics). Just to make things a little more interesting, as we arrived at the quite little surf spot a thumping great storm hit us with 30 knot onshore wind gusts. But we struggled on through all these difficulties with good humor & launched Morgs back to sea!!

I’m sure he was watching over the 4 days we were in Cemaja & found the whole thing totally appropriate!!

Cheers

Ev

NYE06

A year since we said goodbye...

We miss you Uncle Morgan

The Marlin Bar

This photo is quite close to my heart because it's our last and most memorable (quite ridiculous) time at sea. Sitting on the boom of the boat was known to be at the "Marlin Bar" - although I don't know where Morgs had hidden his beer in this shot.
Matt Prentice

I miss you little brother

Their formal best

Morgs and Ben Dunstan wore their formal best to the John's B&S in 1988. I think that they were trying to look tough in this photo but they both ended up looking like the keyboard player from Human League. Ben Hunter

Picnic

Morgs and I had a picnic on the floor of my room at John's in 1989. Mmmm scrummy. Ben Hunter