Botany Bay and Captain James Cook.

Botany Bay.  This was the first landing place of the Endeavour.  Since Zachary Hicks first sighted land, at Hicks Point,  Cook had to travel some 200 km before he could find a safe anchorage for his ship.  I have been reading Richard Hough's biography of Cook, making this visit to landing spot feel very real.

Took a 100 years before a monument was placed at the landing site.  Having read about the extraordinary sea trips that Cook and his like undertook in the 16 and 17 hundreds,  this road trip of ours  is a walk in the park.

 Today the Bay is still welcoming visitors form across the planet,

and taking delivery of manufactured good.  This container ship is coming through the same passage the Endeavour did 240 + years ago.

Very narrow it is too.  The smaller smudge is a surfer paddling his way out to sea.  What is he on???